• Goals - Library - Ramblings - Writing

    Self evaluation and review

    October 28, 2014 - By 

    I work within the library system at the University of Florida. In effort to increase my professional development for my role there, I have been taking the Supervisory Challenge courses at UF (that is where the values survey that vexed me came from). In addition, I applied, and was accepted…

  • Depression

    Lies Depression Tells Me, 3

    October 27, 2014 - By 

    “This is as good as it gets.” –  My Depression I know that I just haven’t found the right anti-depressant yet, but that doesn’t stop the pesky voice telling me that no matter what I try, it won’t work. For the record, the second anti-depressant a) didn’t work and b)…

  • Ramblings - Writing

    NaNo WriMo 2014

    October 22, 2014 - By 

    Every year since 2003, I have participated in (well, at least signed up for) NaNo WriMo (National Novel Writing Month, for the lay-person). The goal is simple, write 50,000 words in the 30 days of November. What! Are you kidding? Fifty-THOUSAND words? Is that even possible? The answer is, for…

  • Writing

    Getting to an ending – Whatever it takes

    October 2, 2014 - By 

    At the end of August I attended an online workshop, Short Story Intensive with Mary Robinette Kowal. The ultimate assignment for the class was to write a short story based on all the previous work we’d done. We had ninety minutes. I was pretty proud of my first draft, and…

  • Photos - Ramblings - Writing

    My Muse is a Fish*

    October 1, 2014 - By 

    Once again I have a Betta fish – though after the last one I had grown cold on the idea of having a fish in my office (to the point where I got rid of all the tanks and supplies I had used on my previous underwater companions). But a…