Happy New Year!

I've tried to reflect on the big life changes I had last year, but I think I take them for granted or see them as insignificant even when they are drastically changing how I communicate with the world.

For instance, Twitter. I can't remember if I joined to keep in touch with any one person or not. I do know that a few months into it, I had my mom (@mikimom) join, and now I don't want my cell phone to leave my side. I don't want it to be a marketing tool, although I appreciate when my DJ friends tell me their shows are about to come on, but I like sharing all my OMG moments, debating what to eat for lunch or if I should buy a certain painting and generally venting my frustrations with the world. I like getting into public private conversations with @jassylime. I like knowing everything @matthickey is up to, it's kinda like living across the hall from him again.

For all the hype, not many of my librarian friends are using Twitter. One set up an account for his library and bombarded me with Bette Midler lyrics as a test one day (I begged him to stop). I'm not really keen on getting under 13s to sign up for stuff they're not supposed to, and I'm not sure I would reach teens that would otherwise not come in the library. Most of all, the idea of keeping a one-sided Twitter account doesn't appeal to me, or keeping one that I wouldn't be able to use on my phone (unless I signed into the web browser, yawn).

So yes, I love Twitter for all the time wasting, why not just text, why not just call, no i don't care what you ate for lunch, i live in a different city than you and can't meet up for drinks that it brings into my life. Libraries, authors, bands, resturants and other professional entities, I'm not sure if I care.

reason i will finally get my NYPL card

Is It Really So Strange?

Last night when I was trying to go to sleep all I could hear were the screams and shouts of my pre-teens from our afternoon wallet making program. While we had some cute projects, I should not have let them near the glitter glue. I shouldn't even question their loyalty to the glitter glue, if I had access to free glitter glue when I was younger that's all I'd want to use. They can take a perfectly nice project though and glop on the glitter glue, insist on taking it home and then drop it somewhere in the library before they make it out the door. Oops!

At that age, I on the other hand, would manage to swipe my hand across the wet glitter glue before I even picked it up.

I'm the one who is in love with the craft projects though. I love making stuff. I have supplies here. Sure I need to bring in a few of my own things (needles, thread) but then we make REALLY COOL STUFF. I show them the other books on the topic (origami, felt sewing etc.), but I know it's just the glitter glue they're here for.