My LIS professor is actually a Ninja Bus Hijacker

AAAAHHHHH!!!!

Library school, you drive me craaaaazzzzy!!!!!

Now that we got that out of the way.

Last week was crazy. Monday, I had work but no class because of Fast Track weekend, which let me tell you is ridiculous. There was a lot of drinking that weekend. Not going to lie.
Anyway, before I talk about Library related things, let's talk about how Wednesday was the weirdest, most ridiculous day ever.

Things I have learned this week, just because of Wednesday:

1. Scranton is creepy. I can't explain it.
2. PA is full of movie shoots. There was one near my fellow librarian's house, which is like a few blocks from me, when she came to get me. I think it had Jake Gyllenhaal in it. I don't know anything other than that. Also, there was a film shoot in Altoona, somewhere or maybe it was before Altoona. I don't really know. It was in nowheresville, PA. It's for a movie called Unstoppable, about an unstoppable train. With Denzel Washington and some other random people I can't remember... oh yeah, that guy from the new Star Trek. One of those dudes. We got stuck in a traffic jam on the way home when they were filming the train in the sunset with helicopters and everything.
3. Panera is delicious after a ten hour car drive. Especially an epically disappointing ten hour car drive.
4. Ice cream is also good.

Seriously though, this is a funny story. We drive all the way to Scranton. We were like 20 minutes out of town and ticketmaster calls my friend and tells her the concert we were going to see was canceled. which is the point in which we wish we had gotten the call before we left Pittsburgh. We drove all the way to Scranton just to see the place where the concert would be, just out of curiosity. Downtown Scranton is just odd. There are so many temple looking buildings and banners hanging over the street.

As disappointed as we were, the whole thing was kind of hilarious. So we spent the rest of the ride home speculating about ninja tour bus hijacking and somehow, our LIS 2000 professor being involved. It also involved the movie shoot and a Chemotherapeutic Infectious Waste truck, which we spent part of our drive behind. That is how hilariously awful our Wednesday turned out. You are all mad jealous of that, I can tell. It's totes cool though. I have to resist recounting all of the other times I have traveled shows only to get there and have them be postponed/ canceled. It's OK though because my friend and I are determined to see them again. We are already making plans. That's how ridiculous we are. xD

Sorry for the off-topicness but that was just too interesting not to share.

So libraries. How about them. I'm working on a repository review right now for my Archives and Records Management Class, which goes to show you how popular and exciting I am. Some days, I feel like I fit in so well with my fellow Librarian and Archivists and other days, I feel like everyone hates me and thinks I'm totally weird or they are just pretending to like me. I feel like that most of the time though, even with people I should totally know better than to think that with, it's just the way I am.

Anyway, Repository Reviews. I am doing mine on the Center For American Music, which is a repository at the University of Pittsburgh for American 19th, 20th and 21st century music. It's really cool and I enjoy writing about it, for the most part. I'm kind in doubt about the program, mostly because I feel like it's way too academic. It's emphasizes publishing in academic journals and things like that, which I am not interested in. I love the practical and hands on aspect of Archiving but the academic side, I could most definitely do without. I'm thinking maybe I might want to be a conservator or switch to general librarianship but that's not quite right either because I do like the organizing and cataloging aspect of Archiving.

I just always have to find something wrong with things I like because I can never be happy with the way things are. It's seriously getting old.

Anyway, sorry about my whining. I'm hopefully going to have an appointment with my adviser next week about these issues and I will let you all know how that goes. I know you are all excited about that. xD