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luciabI think maybe Tuneless Boy has found his true metier (now if I only knew how to put the little accent thingy on there....) He's upstair wailing away on electric blues guitar and NOT SINGING. And he ain't doin' bad with the whole blues thing. I suppose it'd embarrass him if I applauded or something. Heh.
In other news of astonishment, I finally finished That Damn Cataloging Test. When I talked to other class members lost night, they all said they took like 12-15 hours to finish, too, so I don't feel so bad.
I went to hear Michael Gorman, current president of the American Library Association, speak on campus last night. He was a pretty good speaker. A little slick, maybe, but entertaining. It was unfortunate that his talk was in competition with a Special Libraries conference, and another of the local Library schools had a death on their faculty which pulled away another good sized chunk of potential attendees. (Yes, there are three library schools within about a one-hour driving radius of each other. Yes, I know that means the local library market is saturated. Sigh. Too bad I don't want to move out of the area. I hear there's going to be a great shortage of librarians soon, but apparently not here. La.)
I just finished re-reading William Gibson's Neuromancer. I really liked it this time, too. In fact, I liked it well enough to check out several other books of his, including Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, the second and third books in the Neuromancer trilogy. It was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madlori recommending Pattern Recognition recently that made me start reading him again, and then I read Mona Lisa Overdrive, not knowing it was part of a trilogy. I'm looking forward to re-reading it in sequence. I was kind of afraid that Neuromancer would seem dated, or give me that "Oh, I've seen this SO many times" feeling that you get sometimes when something has been imitated, but it didn't happen. I did have Matrix flashbacks a few times, but nothing serious. The man's just good, is all. Thank you, madlori!
Well, Tunless Boy has gone out for the evening now, and I think I'll take Count Zero and go read awhile.
In other news of astonishment, I finally finished That Damn Cataloging Test. When I talked to other class members lost night, they all said they took like 12-15 hours to finish, too, so I don't feel so bad.
I went to hear Michael Gorman, current president of the American Library Association, speak on campus last night. He was a pretty good speaker. A little slick, maybe, but entertaining. It was unfortunate that his talk was in competition with a Special Libraries conference, and another of the local Library schools had a death on their faculty which pulled away another good sized chunk of potential attendees. (Yes, there are three library schools within about a one-hour driving radius of each other. Yes, I know that means the local library market is saturated. Sigh. Too bad I don't want to move out of the area. I hear there's going to be a great shortage of librarians soon, but apparently not here. La.)
I just finished re-reading William Gibson's Neuromancer. I really liked it this time, too. In fact, I liked it well enough to check out several other books of his, including Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, the second and third books in the Neuromancer trilogy. It was
madlori recommending Pattern Recognition recently that made me start reading him again, and then I read Mona Lisa Overdrive, not knowing it was part of a trilogy. I'm looking forward to re-reading it in sequence. I was kind of afraid that Neuromancer would seem dated, or give me that "Oh, I've seen this SO many times" feeling that you get sometimes when something has been imitated, but it didn't happen. I did have Matrix flashbacks a few times, but nothing serious. The man's just good, is all. Thank you, madlori!Well, Tunless Boy has gone out for the evening now, and I think I'll take Count Zero and go read awhile.
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Date: 2006-05-01 02:28 pm (UTC)At least on this keyboard, they might be different on others.