Rants and Raves

22 June 2006

Passed my oral final exam for M.S. in Crop Science!

17 January 2006

For my M.S. in Crop Science I'm taking Stats II (ETR 522) at NIU and Plant Biochemistry at UIUC and an independent study (hopefully at NIU) to make a website that reviews Ag Books for Kids. I spent the weekend on this project. I may be done with the M.S. in Crop Science in May!!!

20 September 2005

For my M.S. in Crop Science I'm taking NRES 488 from UIUC and for my M.S. Ed. in Instructional Technology I'm taking Information Access and Social Responsibility for LIS (ETT 542T) at NIU.

16 July 2005 GRRR!

Great disappointment. Amazon.com required a signature (not that we don't get a half dozen shipments a week without a signature). Thus, instead of a HP 6 book, we received a USPS notice of a package. Thanks.

15-16 July 2005

Great fun was had at Barnes and Noble and Borders at the Harry Potter 6 Parties. BN wins for staff costumes, decorations, and activities. Border's was winning as the more hip and happening spot early on. However, when I went back to BN later it was really hopping, too.

26 June 2005

Went to ALA in Chicago. I only went to the exhibits, but it was fun. The best part was meeting Lisa Yee at the Scholastic book signing and lots of free manga. I'm looking forward to reading Lisa Yee's "Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time". Favorite free manga so far is Shojo Beat (a new magazine similar to Shonen Jump). I will probably subscribe.

16 June 2005

Stated Stats I. It will count for both my MS in Crop Science and MS Ed in Instructional Technology.

Spring 2005

Taking a class on herbicides for Crop Science MS and TLSE 457 a class on including exceptional children in the regular classroom.

November 2005

Started working as a graduate student advisor. I help teachers get certified or endorsed in LIS.

23 September 2004

Happy! Received letter of invitation to join Beta Phi Mu.

4 September 2004

Decided to take Psychological Foundations of Education and Plant Growth and Management. Book reviews and web pages on these topics have already been added and more are sure to follow. Still applying for jobs.

Karen

14 July 2004

Finished summer school a few weeks ago. I'm applying for jobs now. I'm up to tied for 9,180th reviewer on Amazon.com. I've signed up for two grad classes in education in the fall. Got to get that second MS!

23 May 2004

Slogging my way through Social Foundations of Education (EPFE500).

22 May 2004

I'm tied as the 17,758 top reviewer on Amazon.com.

16 May 2004

Yay! I now have a MS in Library and Information Science. Now I need a job in a library! Know of any?

18 April 2004

Almost finished Cataloging II Final Paper: Difficulties of finding East Asian Names in OPACs or Why we need the Virtual International Authority File

Karen

8 April 2004

I have about 10 days to finish all of my final projects. I can't work on fun stuff. The good news is that I will graduate in May!

Karen

17 Mar. 2004 Grrrr

I voted yesterday. As I live in Illinois, I didn't get any say in the major presidential candidates. It was all decided before I got to vote. Note to self. Apply for jobs in New Hampshire.

Karen

9 Mar. 2004 OH. WOW! Librarians.info is a School Library Journal Site of the week!

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA401827

Karen

25 Feb. 2004 Oh. Wow!
I'm taking Cataloging II this semester with an illustrious instructor. No fault of hers, it is giving me a headache. Literally. So today I was using the Library of Congress' Authority Resource and I inadvertently typed in Jounal instead of Journal. Well 6 items popped up anyway. I used the LC's handy dandy form to report errors. It says it should take about a week to hear back from them. I got a reply in a couple of hours. Why did I take Cataloging II you may ask? I was contemplating the list of classes one day and a thought popped into my head; I love order in data. I love correct, perfect, orderly data. Hmm, maybe I'll be able to get my dream job some day; finding errors in databases as big as the LC online catalog!

Karen

P.S. The funny thing is that in class. When the instructor was showing us the Authority Resource, I typed in Coco Lee's name and back comes two authorized headings for her. Later, I submitted an error which the LC people looked at and corrected, too.

21 Feb. 2004 Love 'em or Hate 'em Lists

Last Fall, I had to sign onto a listserv for a class and of the three I chose XYZ Listerv in the digest version. I couldn't stand it. Everyday, I get a 100mb digest file. It is next to impossible to slog through the junk to find the interesting bits. They do have a good archive though, which I can look at if I have an interest in something that they might be able to answer.

For another class, I had to sign up for Web 4 LIB. In this case I get individual emails. The volume isn't that high, so they are easy to read or delete.

Now I joined ABC Listerv for another class. I have strict rules on my hotmail in box-approved people only-this listserv was going to my junk mail box. I was quite irritated that the emails don't all say they come from the list name so that I could direct them easily to a folder. I dinked around for weeks getting ticked off, before I finally took the two minutes to figure out that I could filter on the *to* field, which I hadn't known you could do. I sometimes get emails from people that are important in my junk mail box, and it was next to impossible to find the good emails because I am getting hundreds of emails from people I don't know. So, I really had to look at all the email names and subjects carefully. You have now heard why I hate big Listservs. Don't you feel like you are reading a long post on a listserv?

All these nice posters in a happy community? Give me a break. There is so much off-topic chatter and sniping on this list, I can't stand it. Here is just one example from Testy Poster A today, "And, So and so, for all your talk about community and caring all I'm feeling from you is negative energy. You should speak more peace and love and kindness. [I'm paraphrasing to protect myself from getting sued.]

If I was going to remain on this list I would have to be really choosy and just read topics that really looked interesting to me. I can't wait to get off of it.

Karen

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