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Apr. 8th, 2006 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luciabThe writing has been going okay today. I'm sure you've realized that the paper I was going to finish last weekend didn't get all the way done. Big surprise, that. I've known for a long time that the "thinking about" was a big part of doing a scroll-- looking through books, playing with calligraphy, trying different things. Now I know that "thinking about" is also critical for me in writing a paper. I had read everything weeks ago, and re-read it when I started writing. I did my thinking about the first part, though-- the history bits-- and not about the comments on the current state of things. I wound up trying to write that during the week, and re-read bits as I went along. I had to take a couple of days off before it started to coalesce, then. Fortunately, this morning it was working out okay.
Unfortunately, the reason I wanted to have the damn thing done before this weekend is that the final in this class is also Wed night (when the paper is due) and I need to re-read the pertinent chapters in the textbook. Four chapters is a lot of reading, at least in a textbook. Sigh.
I finally read American Gods, recommended by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bzzzyb, and liked it well enough that I just checked out Neverwhere. It was also interesting the other day when I was behind the reference desk and overheard a patron ask one of the librarians to help him find a book called "Anansi Boys." Hmmm, I thought. That sounds familiar, but I couldn't place it. As I was leaving, I heard the librarian say something about "G-A-Y??" I got halfway across the library when it dawned on me; I went back, just in case they weren't getting anywhere. Good thing I did, because they were having no luck at all. Not-yet-a-librarian to the rescue! I spelled "Gaiman" and "Anansi" for her, and bingo! There it was, pretty as you please. Yay, me!
I was also able to help a librarian (ESL) who didn't know how to spell "fibromyalgia," and couldn't read the patron's handwriting. The patron was also ESL, and of course they didn't have the SAME first language. Good thing I am moderately up on health stuff. I'm also planning to take a class on Health reference sources this fall; I suspect that would be a major topic at a reference desk. I'm not sure that most patrons will need anything more specific than what would be found in a general reference source, but hey. Ya never know.
Unfortunately, the reason I wanted to have the damn thing done before this weekend is that the final in this class is also Wed night (when the paper is due) and I need to re-read the pertinent chapters in the textbook. Four chapters is a lot of reading, at least in a textbook. Sigh.
I finally read American Gods, recommended by
bzzzyb, and liked it well enough that I just checked out Neverwhere. It was also interesting the other day when I was behind the reference desk and overheard a patron ask one of the librarians to help him find a book called "Anansi Boys." Hmmm, I thought. That sounds familiar, but I couldn't place it. As I was leaving, I heard the librarian say something about "G-A-Y??" I got halfway across the library when it dawned on me; I went back, just in case they weren't getting anywhere. Good thing I did, because they were having no luck at all. Not-yet-a-librarian to the rescue! I spelled "Gaiman" and "Anansi" for her, and bingo! There it was, pretty as you please. Yay, me!I was also able to help a librarian (ESL) who didn't know how to spell "fibromyalgia," and couldn't read the patron's handwriting. The patron was also ESL, and of course they didn't have the SAME first language. Good thing I am moderately up on health stuff. I'm also planning to take a class on Health reference sources this fall; I suspect that would be a major topic at a reference desk. I'm not sure that most patrons will need anything more specific than what would be found in a general reference source, but hey. Ya never know.
