<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Librarian stuff @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Librarian stuff) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 grerp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:36:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Librarian stuff @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Library Thing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/library_thing.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/library_thing.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=library%5Fthing</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Unable to blog this week, I&#39;ve gotten semi-addicted to Library Thing.&nbsp; So far I&#39;ve inputted 92 books into my library.&nbsp; I like that you can compare libraries with people who have the same books as you do, but what&#39;s really addict]]></description></item><item><title>Conflicting compulsions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/conflicting_compulsions.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/conflicting_compulsions.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=conflicting%5Fcompulsions</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m sure everyone has these - the urge to eat and to be skinny, the urge to sleep and stay up late watching a movie or reading a book.&nbsp; One of mine has to do with going to the library.&nbsp; I find that when visiting a library, any library,]]></description><category>libraries</category></item><item><title>Gone, all gone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/gone_all_gone.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/gone_all_gone.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gone%5Fall%5Fgone</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While I worked at Greenville as a librarian, I worked very hard to put together a decent romance collection for a library of that size. The first director I worked under had a strange attitude about romance. She read it, but she wouldn't buy it f]]></description></item><item><title>Leaving a job</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/leaving_a_job.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/leaving_a_job.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=leaving%5Fa%5Fjob</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have only one more week of work until we leave for Russia on the 23rd.  I&#39;ve been looking forward to leaving my job because of boss-related issues for some time, but now I&#39;m beginning to feel sad.  I really want to be a stay-at-home mom and]]></description></item><item><title>Feeling yucky</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/feeling_yucky.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/feeling_yucky.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=feeling%5Fyucky</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Saturday night I went over to V&#39;s house to watch A1 and A2.  We had a very nice time watching The Black Stallion and playing in the yard. But, unfortunately, I caught their cold, and am now feeling pretty yucky: sore throat, fatigue, a little bit]]></description></item><item><title>Horton Hatches the Egg</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/horton_hatches_the_egg.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/horton_hatches_the_egg.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=horton%5Fhatches%5Fthe%5Fegg</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning we did an &quot;Egg&quot; storytime, and I read Horton Hatches the Egg, one of my favorite stories (Plus Ollie by Olivier Dunrea and The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine). As I was approaching the part where Maysie the bird]]></description></item><item><title>Received our second referral</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/received_our_second_referral.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/received_our_second_referral.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=received%5Four%5Fsecond%5Freferral</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...and it&#39;s another very unhealthy child. My agency says that our region has just in the last couple of months started enforcing an old rule that a couple has to turn down all the waiting unhealthy children before they will be referred a healthy]]></description></item><item><title>Complimented (psyche!) !!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/complimented_psyche_.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/complimented_psyche_.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=complimented%5Fpsyche%5F</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m writing this down because I know I have a tendency to remember the bad stuff longer than the good stuff. Today I got a nice compliment.Every summer I have teen volunteers who work for me at the children&#39;s programs. In a way, it&#39;s a sn]]></description></item><item><title>Burned out on the public</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/burned_out_on_the_public.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/burned_out_on_the_public.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=burned%5Fout%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fpublic</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think I have reached burnout in working with the public. I&#39;m just so so so so so so so tired of answering everyone&#39;s questions and fixing all the machines around the library and turning the filters off the Internet terminals. I&#39;m tired]]></description></item><item><title>With any luck...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/with_any_luck.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/with_any_luck.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=with%5Fany%5Fluck</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just did the last school visits I will have to do for a long, long time (maybe even forever). Thank God. I did 24 separate readings of The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges this week. This year I only had to do 5 schools, not six, be]]></description></item><item><title>This cracked me up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/this_cracked_me_up.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/this_cracked_me_up.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=this%5Fcracked%5Fme%5Fup</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the review of All the Way: Sex for the First Time by Kim Martyn (in School Library Journal):

"...Chapters cover sexual assault, STDs, and birth control, but the overarching theme is that teens are going to have sex, so here's how to do i]]></description></item><item><title>Librarians in fiction</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/librarians_in_fiction.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/librarians_in_fiction.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=librarians%5Fin%5Ffiction</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I did some weeding of the TBR pile last night and decided to try Open Season by Linda Howard. (This was a V. recommendation.)  I haven&#39;t been a big Howard fan in the past - I think Duncan&#39;s Bride is the only one I&#39;ve read more than once -]]></description></item><item><title>3 down, 1 to go</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_down_1_to_go.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_down_1_to_go.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=3%5Fdown%5F1%5Fto%5Fgo</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, I know I&#39;m a fruitcake for worrying this much, but I&#39;m soooooooooooooooooooooooo glad that we only have one more homestudy meeting with our social worker. I&#39;m just tired of walking on eggshells. Yesterday I ramped myself up into a t]]></description></item><item><title>Several pieces of bad news</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/several_pieces_of_bad_news.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/several_pieces_of_bad_news.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=several%5Fpieces%5Fof%5Fbad%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The first is that Electrolux is indeed pulling out of Greenville (where I work). Since they are the largest employer in the area, it&#39;s going to be a huge loss to the community (and, eventually, to library revenues).The second, and most annoying,]]></description></item><item><title>Errands</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/errands.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/errands.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=errands</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So here&#39;s what I did today:Scanned our passport photos so that I can print them off again. Those puppies are expensive, and J. has to have like 8 more in this process (I need 3, but he has to have more to prove he&#39;s not a terrorist or somethi]]></description></item><item><title>Insecure about the future</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/insecure_about_the_future.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/insecure_about_the_future.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=insecure%5Fabout%5Fthe%5Ffuture</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, because there is this conversation going on about careers and choices, etc. on a list I&#39;m on, I&#39;ve been thinking about my future.I find it rather daunting that I so don&#39;t care about my career. Am I the only one like this? I&#39;m no]]></description></item><item><title>Good storytime this morning</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/good_storytime_this_morning.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/good_storytime_this_morning.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=good%5Fstorytime%5Fthis%5Fmorning</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I thought it would be a bust because the theme was &quot;The Zoo.&quot;It was requested by a child this summer that we do a storytime on zoos. But I couldn&#39;t find very many books that were interesting/age appropriate. So I wound up going through]]></description></item><item><title>Sad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/sad.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/sad.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sad</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just helped a 15 year old check out a copy of What to Expect When You&#39;re Expecting.Her cheeks were still softy and downy. She looked so young. She picked it up using a library card from another library, so I&#39;m guessing she wants to keep thi]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Acadamia :(</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/acadamia_.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/acadamia_.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=acadamia%5F</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[V. is going back to school this fall. She had her first two classes in library science this weekend, and already she feels overwhelmed. It sounds like they have beefed up the program in the 6 years since I graduated. When I went to WSU, the library s]]></description></item><item><title>Good girl!?!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/good_girl.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/good_girl.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=good%5Fgirl</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I helped a man find a book on bats (he wanted to get them out of his house) this morning, and when I handed him the book, he said, "Good girl!"Do you think this would be a case of justifiable homicide? "Good girl!" is condescendin]]></description></item></channel></rss>