First day of first real vacation since, I don't know...

First day of first real vacation since, I don't know...

This is the first day of my first real vacation in a bit. I guess, if by vacation you mean (a) a period of time of rest that occurs when your general situation tends to involve work and (b) not due to illness, this is actually my first vacation. After my dad died and the debacle that was the end-term of my time as Book Gallery's manager, I took about a year off, plus or minus. Prior to that, there was the year off of school circa 2001, which was mostly spent doing little but odd jobs. Since starting as the night reference librarian (only two of the words are part of the official title, but I like all three) at UAH, I have had three or four downtimes due to between-semester breaks, where the library is not open at night and so I only have piece-meal shifts. This, though, is a little better. I won't be getting any piece-meal shifts, or showing up to any meetings, or doing any e-ref. I'm sure I'll do this or that throughout, but in general the only reason I have to go the library is to return a book. It's an interesting feeling. I'm not quite sure what to do with myself.

I will be returning to work and school next week. I'll work Monday and Tuesday nights and then, Wednesday and Thursday, start classes. Then, on Friday, I'll be going down to my first weekend at Gadsden for the semester. Let me double check that, though. My classes this time are a required course whose title escapes me, probably a journal library resources course. Then I have a course on virtual reference, which has become more and more the theme of my work and is likely the general offshoot I will be taking myself in professionally, if available. The last is a library instruction course, which I am unsure about but in principle I like.

For this week, then, I'll be mostly reading (I have a book called The Fly I am reading, which is in no-relation to the movies of the same name, as well as an audiobook called The Lowland Rider and there will be one other at least but not sure what), playing Liberty City Stories, and watching random bad and good movies and Doctor Who episodes. And resting. I imagine the week will be similar to the last in that I will be away from Twitter, Livejournal, and my cellphone most of the time but I will try and make an effort to be a little more digitally-social this week (last week I would go two or three days between e-mails, which is extremely rare for me). I'll probably make a post about this past weekend later on tonight, but for now I'm going to get some caffeine and do the audiobook thing for about half an hour.

Me in 2010

BY WEEK: 2010, Week 32

BY MONTH: August 2010