And, I suspect, because it's easier to do the Sudoku puzzle on the train rather than in the driver's seat.

This, right here, is why I'm excited about commuting on the ferry. If only they had WiFi.

I love my FastTrack, too.

I really don't want to go into debt for what the ass't. director at my library calls "the most expensive union card you can buy " ( an MLS for those that don't know)

I've heard this a lot, and it drives me craxy. This may be true of some schools, but I learned so much at mine. It is certainly possible to learn much of what you need through on the job training, but I still think that grad school can be invaluable.

I've been working in libraries for something like 12 years. There are some skills I could learn that I haven't. ( cataloging) but some of the big issues that I don't know , aren't touched ( budgeting , grant writing,etc) at most of the schools. Most of the people I know that have gone to school, but were in libraries ( more than one is key) before they started were extremely fustrated by the academic vs. real world solutions to problems. Do I think it is a waste of time.. Not from a dollars perspective - out here I will break evn two years after getting a job as a librarian. And I am open to learning new stuff. I am fustrated - because at my old library I did so much. and now, I'm a body at the desk. I am valued - but there are places I can't go that I have been before - cause I don't have the degree. Even though my boss's boss thinks the degree is not nessacary. And my boss is tossing around the ide a that we don't need referenc librarians any more. ( ?!?!?!?!)There is a program I am interested in at Clarion - a special libraries program - mostly because it is 1) outside of my experience and has corse work that concentrates on different kinds of reference. But when can I afford it... who knows.

Ummm... that was a rant. or a brain spill. perhaps I should find food.

We're having breakfast for dinner. DH is frying his eggs. I gave the other one to the dog. None were soft boiled.

Hec, in this, like so many other things, you are exceptional.

Oh, I know I don't have the usual commute. But I hear all the Planners getting hard-ons about pay-only downtown driving (an option they're looking at for SF, and not uncommon in London I think) and that is yet another place where I'd get screwed, since JZ often drives downtown and drops the car off for me to do the commute.

I have the same beef with Berkeley's incessant blocked streets. I've had it with making particular transit options negatives to force people to do something else. I need to get around by a variety of means - facilitate that. Don't impede it.

So glad to hear the good news beth!

I have chosen to take the fact that matt's mom is still the same as good news, From the little bit I have read - that sounds right. But we don't really know. So I am being extra positive. Thanks everyone.

and I thought I was jokeing about being hungry. nope, I just gobbled my meal in no time at all. I even got it all hot in microwave. I forget that I can get that hungry. Usually I pay so much attention to spaceing food nice and evenly, that i forget what happens when I don't eat as much as should throughout the day . ( Diabetics have two concerns- which boil down to the same thing . Eat enough so you don't get cranky, or sick feeling , or pass out. But never eat to over full - because it means bloodsugar going too high. For mean - that means eat often- and today I ate often - but never very much )

Great news about Matt's mom. Thanks for the update, Beth.

sneaks in a hug of Gris before he becomes all orthodox and it isn't allowed

Eh. From what I can tell, shomer negiah is one of the more commonly ignored practices in modern Orthodoxy. Certainly GG doesn't follow it (obviously). Nor does her family, I believe, as I shook her sister's hand today.

Thanks everybody for your support in my random anxiety post. I'm still not feeling fabulous about this whole thing - the fear is still there - but I'm better for the moment. Y'all are nice.

I had other comments to make, but I forgot them.

Y'all are nice.

Nah. But we're right.

General poll: what did you do after you graduated college?

Spent three weeks driving cross-country with my two roommates (and staying with the third roommate for part of it). Mind you, two don't speak to me and one only communicates via LJ, these days, but...

Then I spent two months at home, "looking for a job". Then I moved to DC and temped for a few months. And, um, realized in all the seemingly endless amounts of free time looking for a job that I was gay, and came out.

I wish I'd...gone and done something crazy like move to another country. No better time to do it.

I worked for six months then used the money to backpack around Western Europe for three. Best thing I've ever done.

Like THAT! So jealous of Trudy. And Vortex, cause BUNAC is really cool AND only available after you graduate! (Except for New Zealand, which is until you're 30, which is getting darn closer moment by moment, which scares me...not that I desperately want ot work in New Zealand, but a chance to go work somewhere else is rare!)

having this much opportunity is more than a little overwhelming.

I totally hear that. There are TOO MANY options, really--you can choose where to live, what to do, who to be...

Today is my 8th day without smoking. The little stat thing on Quitnet says that in those 8 days I've NOT smoked 184 cigarettes and I've saved almost $30. Huh.

Go you, Nicole! That sounds like a heavy habit, so it's gotta be extra-tough! Power through!

it beats my previous personal best hourly wage by 67%, so that's pretty cool. And I get to try out commuting by ferry

Dude. Those are both cool!