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By: Erica Olsen,
on 11/1/2011
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Introvert, extrovert, or false dichotomy?
I’ve been baring my soul and cockeyed schemes on the internet since 1997. I tell total strangers here on this site about my life, my thoughts on work, and the things that bring me joy. I’ve had two jobs where I acted professionally. I love making strangers smile. On Sundays, I invite everyone I’ve ever met to my home for BYOBrunch, and bask in the glow of a full room of happy people. I have sung badly in public, danced at any opportunity, and told jokes in front of large crowds. Very little embarrasses me.
Extrovert.
But I spend most of my life absorbing data. I work behind the scenes on applications that are the digital equivalent of sand mandalas. At my best, my effort becomes invisible, unnoticed. I love silence. My favorite vacation activity is walking through strange cities alone, or snorkling, both ways of existing in the divine silence of another world. I curl up like a cat under a blanket to recharge. When I had my daughter, I didn’t leave the house for four months. I order takeout by internet rather than phone. I rarely use my phone as a phone. I avoid answering emails, even from good friends.
Introvert.
I think the introvert/extrovert dichotomy attempts to explain seemingly incongruous tendencies that can arise in social animals. Our social dynamic and learned responses reflect a variety of alpha- or herd instincts. I would be surprised if most people completely embody one or the other.
In related news, I’m sitting in the Noe Valley Library courtyard, and a group of middle-school kids are in front of me, giggling and making prank calls. Extroversion? Anonymous herd aggression as bonding mechanism?
Time to get up and go to the coffeeshop? Yes.
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By: Erica Olsen,
on 11/8/2008
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rom the department of products-inadvertently-marketed-to-librarians:
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- $40 USD - Handmade in Toronto and sold on etsy.com
Oh yes. Hot indeed. I believe some of us here can confirm that boys and girls DO make passes at folks who wear glasses. Especially if they are well-versed in database design, collections management, or bibliographic instruction.
I visited my local Bernal Heights library branch this afternoon, in search of a place to sit and read. It turned out to be one of the last weeks the building is open before it closes for an extensive renovation. On a kid-filled sunny spring Saturday, the current building gives the impression of being a community center rather than a library, with more conversations, computers, and chaos than visible books.
I’m looking forward to the new design. The neighborhood obviously is drawn to the location, which swirls with families out walking dogs and babies.
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Things I’m currently researching…
- Wedding venues in the Detroit area that are:
- Non-religious
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- Things to do in Brighton, UK
- Search Engine Optimization
- Cat grooming (did you know you can use baby powder to make your cat less itchy?)
- Better WordPress plugins (I’m playing with a new Twitter sidebar)
- Management jobs in SF for my sweetie Chuck this summer
Binders of field notes sit in the common area of the Macaulay library, the audio/video library where I spent three years working as a software interface designer.
These are all digitized now, but the collection goes back to the 1950’s so these books are the last line of defense in case of a digital preservation catastrophe.
Elyse Sewell came in second place on America’s Next Top Model. I know this because I spent two solid days watching it on YouTube this winter while battling the flu.
Why should you care about Elyse Sewell? Well, she’s funny, she has a livejournal, she’s smart as hell, and she visits libraries for fun. Libraries like the François Mitterrand Library.
Enjoy, and remember: Librarians can be hot and models can be smart.
And vice versa, probably. But we don’t talk about that here.
Chris and I are off to Vancouver, BC for the week. He’s attending a conference. I’m stalking the sea otters at the Vancouver aquarium.
We get in tonight. If any CUPE 391 members want a beer, I’m buying. Organized librarians rock.
Chris and I got our New York Public Library cards in the mail today.
Anyone who lives in New York state is eligible for a card, so we now have access to the library’s impressive collection of online resources.
I spent the morning refreshing my Spanish at the NYPL’s Online Language Learning Center. It uses the Rosetta Stone software, which now has a place on my desert island list of media resources, along with the White Album and the entire first season of The Dog Whisperer.
If you haven’t used or seen Rosetta Stone, it is Language learning software with the remarkable ability to hack your brain and force it to actually understand and remember all of those verb conjugations you had to memorize back in college. The lessons are reinforced with audio, video, writing and images, so it imitates an immersion experience more than a typical grammar-based language course. There’s even a module that has you speak into a microphone and shows you a waveform comparing your speech with someone who doesn’t suck.
I haven’t explored the other web resources, but I’m tickled at getting access to this one. The software is in the $300 range, and Cornell doesn’t have a license, so I feel like I’ve gotten my taxes worth this year. Thanks NYPL!
Perhaps this will be of use, written by real Vancouverites
Things to do in Vancouver
Perhaps this will be of use, written by real Vancouverites
Things to do in Vancouver
Have fun, you globe trotting librarians, you! :)
Have fun, you globe trotting librarians, you! :)
hey–i’m a library school student and i’ve been reading your blog for the past year. i’m also a cupe 391 member–holler if you want to have a coffee or a beer (and you don’t have to buy either)
hey–i’m a library school student and i’ve been reading your blog for the past year. i’m also a cupe 391 member–holler if you want to have a coffee or a beer (and you don’t have to buy either)