Scott Westerfeld @ my library!

Scott Westerfeld just walked through my library doors not more than 6 minutes ago.  He’s doing an author talk and selling books and all that fun stuff upstairs.  I’m personally feeling horribly bummed (read earlier post ) - but my library is buzzing with life and excitement because of this author, and I can’t help but feel excited and delighted, too.  The teens – the long-neglected generation of many libraries – have been arriving in droves since the schools let out at 2ish.  Parents are flying in with their kids – everyone’s bouncing off the walls.  This is how my Fairfield Public Library  should be every day, brimming with life and excitement.  All libraries should be hoppin’ like this.  If we can’t get a big-time author to come in every day, we should at least push ourselves to be at the forefront of the place to be – be it through gaming, technology, art gallery exhibits, any event, to attract different people - not a place to be shushed but a vibrant, active, community place.  Libraries aren’t about books anymore – we can’t be.  We’ve already lost that title to Amazon.com…

Attention passengers, we are experiencing some turbulence…

Never before have I experienced so much chaos in my life all at once.  Just about every aspect of my life is turning upside down – in the end it’ll be sunny side up I think, but right now I feel as if I’m drowning.  My A.D. reads me like a book – she knows I do not like change.  Yet everything that has been rock solid to me is melting, but I know all of it is for the better.  I just wish it wasn’t happening all at once.  Work, school, love, friends, family.  What else is there?  World of Warcraft.  Oddly enough, it seems to have been the one rock left, but even with that, guild drama never ceases, no matter how hard everyone tries, no matter what anyone says or does.  Yet I know that, at least, my sweet little purple gnome will always be there for me to set everything in her path on fire.  I think I am long overdue for a mental breakdown anyway – I have to have those at least once every three or four months – and even though tonight I’m supposed to finish two websites, turn in homework I didn’t know I was supposed to turn in, and carry the work of 3 other people in a group project due this weekend, I will most likely wind up becoming a big fat pile of tears surrounded by 14,238 tissues listening to Madonna.  But that’s okay.  This little rock needs to have a meltdown too to become stronger.