Random Dorkiness

Yeah, its a miracle. I may actually take up blogging. Several people say I should, so here goes. I don’t have anything profound right now because allergies are causing my snotty head not to think, but I do have a good quote. Its by David Seamon, who when I was an undergrad, was head of UVA’s Etext program. He taught my my first HTML in a short course. I remember thinking what he did was pretty darn cool, even though I was only in my first semester of college and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. So maybe in some indirect way, he’s an inspiration for me becoming a librarian. Anyway, he’s at Dartmouth now and someone quoted him at ALA as saying, “We’re moving this profession one death at a time”. How true. My coworkers that desperately need to retire say they won’t. So no change for us. I want to say, “geez people, enjoy old age!” But I guess I’m just not that lucky. I guess this is an issue elsewhere. If librarians stay in the field well past retirement age, then us young’ins will never have a chance. We’ll become so disillusioned that we’ll drop out before they drop dead.

Man, I’m cynical today. I blame Claritin. But really, turnover is good in a profession. Its inevitable.