YAY Springroll

Huzzah!  Last night I took yet another midnight trip to Zul’Aman (thanks to Vixine, who, I am pretty sure, does not sleep), and I *FINALLY* got a drop for Springroll.  I’ve healed there at least 10 times already, and with the plethora of excellent drops for healzzorz you’d think I would have gotten something for my pathetic healer.  I did get the robe off the bear boss the second time in there though (the first time, Miriella was there) - but since then, it’s been dry.  Alas, such is my luck, that when I bring Miriella anywhere, the healing goods drop, and when I bring Springroll anywhere, the dps stuff drops.  For a fact, I took Miriella to Karazhan earlier in the evening as a fill-in.  5 bosses down, 4 of them had healing items.  Not that Spring would have necessarily needed them, but you get the idea.  Anyway, somehow Springroll’s been doing a lot of healing in ZA, and she’s always been with a group of people that wouldn’t be able to even consider rolling against her for healing cloth loot – but it never drops.  But last night!  (or, this morning!) Finally, Springroll got an AWESOME necklace -

Tickled pink I am.  I made off with some really nice dps boots that Miriella would be quite jealous of too.  There’s a few other things on my list to get from ZA for Springroll - mostly, the two-toed sandals, and the very badass healing hood.  Miriella’s only upgrade, I think, is the Cursed Hexblade.   Tonight they’re headed in to finish ZA (two bosses left), but they’re planning on starting the run really early, and I’ll be very sorry to miss it.  I can keep dreaming…

<3 Chumby, <3 Panda Cam!

I haven’t mentioned it yet, but I love my new Chumby!  It’s like TiVo for the Internet…without my Chumby, I would not be able to watch the Panda Cams at the San Diego Zoo on a regular basis – and without that, I wouldn’t have seen this hilarious image:

It’s a panda snoozing in a tree, all kinds of tree and panda limbs hanging everywhere.  Well I thought it was hilarious.  Anyway, be distracted for the day with adorable pandas: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html

Yay Panda Cams!

Best ICHC image evarrrr

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Hope you all had a Happy Valentine’s Day

We traded gifts – he got a 1gb flash drive + bottle opener + key chain combo, I got a 4gb memory card for my N810.  We cannot get much geekier.

Does this remind you of me?

 

A friend sent this to me because she said it reminded her of me.  I find it slightly bizarre and endearing at the same time…

Lol…well my decision is partially made for me.

Because Drexel’s websites (yes, they have a zillion websites and none of them make sense) are so utterly confusing, when I went to find further information on my classes, I discovered that two of the classes I chose earlier are only offered on-campus this Spring, and another isn’t available at all.  Then we decided that INFO 650: Public Library Service would not be particularly useful, seeing that I’ve worked in public libraries for the last 10 years now, and the fact that no class can ever REALLY prepare you for what’s about to hit you when you work in a public library…So lucky you guys, I’m down to the ones that everyone’s been pushing me to take anyway:

INFO 663 – Tech Process In LibrariesFocuses on management, policy, and organizational issues related to the administration of technical services in libraries. Includes acquisitions, copy cataloging, original cataloging, serials control, circulation, and preservation. Emphasizes management in an automated environment where traditional methods are being supplanted by new technologies and related organizational changes.

INFO 646 – Information Systems ManagementAddresses information technology-enabled change and policy issues in the management of information systems (IS). Stresses systems development, staffing and organization, technology infrastructure, project selection, justification and funding, and data. Studies the issues and their resolution in the context of an IS plan. Emphasizes communication about the issues to senior management.

So now, it’s really just down to professor rating and syllabus rating…though I don’t like the fact that I literally have just two to pick from.  /sigh.

A spam comment…

Not on my blog (yet?), but on my library’s:

“Hello I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been intrigued by the lure of Viagra. Now…”

I too, have been intrigued, but probably not in the same way as you, bud.

And I am probably going to be SO sorry I stuck the word Viagra in my blog.  Looking forward to perusing the search terms in the morning though. 

I need your help!

I’m winding down to my very last quarter of school – FOREVER – so I want to make sure it’s a good one.  I have to take two classes, and I’ll graduate in June.  I’m not going back to school after this, because I’ve been in school for the last 23 years of my life – STRAIGHT.  One B.S. and two M.S’s are enough.  So if I have thoughts of going back to school, please beat me over the head with a frying pan, or other hard object within arm’s reach.  For a split moment in one of my favorite classes at Drexel, my professor, who inspired me, almost talked me into reaching for a Ph.D in Library Science.  (I quickly snapped out of it when I remembered the gaping hole in my bank account.)

Anyway, I have my heart set on one class called Digital Reference – it will involve work with IPL.org, and the syllabus looks really exciting, and it’s just right up my alley.  I’m stuck on the last class though, and I just can’t decide what to take.   Here are my 6 options below.  Help me pick?

INFO  663 – Tech Process In Libraries Focuses on management, policy, and organizational issues related to the administration of technical services in libraries. Includes acquisitions, copy cataloging, original cataloging, serials control, circulation, and preservation. Emphasizes management in an automated environment where traditional methods are being supplanted by new technologies and related organizational changes.

INFO 650 – Public Library ServiceSurveys information services provided through public libraries, with attention to governmental and funding issues, determinants of use, extending services to non-users, and cooperation among libraries.

INFO  622 – Content RepresentationFocuses on fundamental decisions in designing subject access systems and alternative approaches to indexing. Explores current issues in content representation: principles of subject analysis; natural language vs. vocabulary control; manual, computer-assisted, and automatic indexing; faceted indexing and classification systems; image indexing and retrieval; indexing and the World Wide Web. Includes evaluation of indexer consistency and indexing system performance.

INFO  661 – Cataloging & Classif IIIntroduces and provides intensive practice in the fundamentals of cataloging nonprint library materials (sound recordings, films/videos, computer files, microforms, graphics), serials, books printed before 1800, and archival/manuscript collections. Provides instruction in RLIN searching. Examines major problems and routines affecting cataloging with copy. Discusses issues related to library automation, actual uses of catalog records, and the emergence of new media.

INFO  668 – History of the BookExamines the metamorphosis of written text from the Western medieval manuscript to the printed book to present-day digital media. Topics include methods of production, intellectual and graphical content, social impact, and the role of church, state, and economic factors.

INFO  646 – Information Systems ManagementAddresses information technology-enabled change and policy issues in the management of information systems (IS). Stresses systems development, staffing and organization, technology infrastructure, project selection, justification and funding, and data. Studies the issues and their resolution in the context of an IS plan. Emphasizes communication about the issues to senior management.

Thanks!

Awww Puppies…

see more cute puppies and funny loldog pictures

PURPLE DOG

You must click here: A Portrait of the Artist’s Grandmother’s Dog, ‘Jack’. « Doodle Beasts

Do eet.  Do eet now!

Theme Difficulties

In the midst of trying to create some images for my group project that’s due either tomorrow night or Monday, I decided I needed to change around my blog theme.  I almost stuck with the one with the snow, because I figured that maybe if I had snow on my blog, it would snow in real life (it’s totally logical, be quiet).  The issue?  It doesn’t have much purple (it has none at all, the horror…), and it’s also just a single column format…

/sigh.