Professor, Law librarian, third coast elitist, music & trash movie snob. Legal tech, IP, social media, education & research. she/ella bluesky:teapotkid
I fell on Thursday (a collapsible table collapsed when I leaned on it) and woke up Friday feeling like I had been in a minor car crash.
Is this old age?
I don't know if I'll ever get over the student eval that said my wearing linen pants that wrinkled over the course of the day evidenced my lack of commitment to professionalism and was a sign I couldn't teach. Remember it every semester I set up the end of semester evaluation!
If people think Vice mgmt’s incompetence is exaggerated: At one point they were seemingly spending 90% of the snack budget on milk. Every time our union committee met my NY coworkers would talk about how much milk there was. Around this time they just stopped paying for PACER
I watched Dark Harvest, it was a cross between The Lottery and Lord of the Flies. If you've seen it tell me what you think (it's on prime) because I want to talk about it with someone.
My child is currently obsessed with Kaiju monsters. So now my evenings are spent checking wikipedia for the release order of the Godzilla movies because heaven forbid we watch them out of order.
The non-librarian library worker erasure is real. ALL library workers, from custodians to shelvers to clerks to IT to maintenance, should have living wages. The professional organization that is supposed to advocate for us doesn’t even care we help keep libraries going.