Just Simmons at the moment, libkitty. They run a satellite program at Mount Holyoke, which would be great for me because I wouldn't have to move. If I don't get in there, I'll start looking around for other schools for the spring or next fall, but I'm fairly optimistic about my chances.
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kate P. - Apr 25, 2005 4:44:58 pm PDT #8837 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
beekaytee - Apr 25, 2005 4:45:17 pm PDT #8838 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Received and backflung libkitty. Thanks!
Jeff Mejia - Apr 25, 2005 4:47:23 pm PDT #8839 of 10001
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Jeff, do frozen grapes work for you?
They do a decent job, thanks for reminding me. I'll have to get some and freeze 'em up.
Well, I think I'll turn in. Treatment tomorrow at 6:00 AM. Talk to you all later. It is really good to be back on the board.
Kate P. - Apr 25, 2005 4:47:56 pm PDT #8840 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
We missed you, Jeff!
I think it is also my bedtime.
libkitty - Apr 25, 2005 4:50:14 pm PDT #8841 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I've known a few folks who went to Simmons, including a PhD student at Syracuse who taught my searching class. Sounds exotic, doesn't it. It was actually all about dialog and Lexis, which were harder to search five years ago. Anyway, he was great and said nothing but good things about Simmons. They should provide a good all around. Sending application ~ma, not that you'll probably need it.
Jesse - Apr 25, 2005 4:53:38 pm PDT #8842 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yay for library school!
It was actually all about dialog and Lexis, which were harder to search five years ago.
I was just talking about that the other day -- someone who hadn't used it in a long time asked me if I "know how to use" Nexis. I was like, dude. There's nothing to know anymore!!
libkitty - Apr 25, 2005 4:56:42 pm PDT #8843 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
So true. I could do command line searching with the best of them for a while there. It was so fun using the free practice account in dialog. One person in class got a search wrong, and it would have cost over $500 for this dinky search, if we had to pay for it. Free is good.
Jesse - Apr 25, 2005 4:57:44 pm PDT #8844 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't even mean to say you don't still need to know how to construct a good search, but I definitely remember using cheat sheets for all the secret codes of how to search.
libkitty - Apr 25, 2005 4:59:14 pm PDT #8845 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Yeah. The $500 thing could happen today.
I'm glad I could help, Beej! Feel free to email my profile addy any time if you have any questions.
tommyrot - Apr 25, 2005 5:01:32 pm PDT #8846 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A headline in the Chicago Tribune that concerns me: Sewage warnings for Chicago River
(OK, that was actually the text of the link to the story.)
The river is the cleanest it has been in decades. But people riding the popular downtown tour boats or canoeing the concrete-lined channels soon will see warnings above each of the 241 pipes that pour untreated human and industrial waste into the river's murky flow after heavy rains.
OK, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that untreated human and industrial waste being poured into a river is a bad thing.