I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


flea - Sep 10, 2010 8:08:04 am PDT #2083 of 30000
information libertarian

Shir, ALA (the American Library Association) accredits library science programs in the US; there's a list of schools here. [link] In my experience, however, you would not be very happy in a library science degree program, at least at the Master's level. It is very much a "practical" degree rather than a theoretical one at most schools, and there is very little emphasis on theoretical approaches of any kind (much less anthropological). Most of the people I know, including myself, who have done a master's degree in other disciplines (Classics, Russian Literature, History) felt that the library master's was not nearly as intellectually or theoretically rigorous.


Shir - Sep 10, 2010 8:11:38 am PDT #2084 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Thank you, flea, for the information and the warning - I am a fairly theoretical person.


Shir - Sep 10, 2010 8:25:37 am PDT #2085 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

ION: I have no idea where I picked that up from, but I have a new grammar mistake in English which is driving me crazy. I began adding s/es to verbs which relates to subjects in plural form. I can see why, theoretically speaking, I'm doing so: it's how you do it in Hebrew and in Arabic - all adjectives and verbs get the suffix in agreement to the subject(s)'s sex and number (except for plural which doesn't stand for people in Arabic, which gets the same grammatical treatment as singular feminine). I just can't see why I began to do it practically speaking - I never had that specific mistake before.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 10, 2010 9:06:29 am PDT #2086 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Thank doG there were so many who also thought sj meant the band Rush.

Heh.


Jessica - Sep 10, 2010 9:07:46 am PDT #2087 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Being a Buffista means never having to say "Am I the only one who misread that?"


SailAweigh - Sep 10, 2010 9:08:26 am PDT #2088 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

sj, I'm afraid I had to chime in, too. I got a little long-winded, but I felt I had relevant experience to speak from.


meara - Sep 10, 2010 9:37:11 am PDT #2089 of 30000

Sigh. So the plumber is supposed to come at 11AM. Or between 11-1. And they called at 8:30 and said "Can we come NOW?" and I had to say no, cause I was just about to get on a super important conference call, and wouldn't be able let him in or tell him the problem or whatever. And now I'm afraid I've jinxed it...


Daisy Jane - Sep 10, 2010 9:51:07 am PDT #2090 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Being a Buffista means never having to say "Am I the only one who misread that?"

And yet, saying it anyway.


WindSparrow - Sep 10, 2010 9:53:35 am PDT #2091 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Being a Buffista means never having to say "Am I the only one who misread that?"

And yet, saying it anyway.

True, but the feeling of lonely foolishness generally evaporates with the chorus of "No, that's what it looked like to me, too," replies.


Sean K - Sep 10, 2010 10:40:10 am PDT #2092 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Man, when those Blackhawks go by, you know it. I was just sitting here in my living room when I heard the not-unusual-sound-of-helicopters-in-Los-Angeles. Except it sounded like a helicopter was coming in for a landing on top of my building. As I was listening, I noticed it had that particularly "blatty" sound, so I walked over to the window and sure enough, there's a pair of Blackhawks flying low and straight out toward the coast. They'd passed almost right overhead.