Not dead yet. Really. Just been flustered over the last week, getting the JCDL presentation ready (with the able and completely panic-proof Tim Donohue), dealing with a teapot-tempest or two at work, and writing up the report for the task force I’m chairing BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE…
Not panicking. Really not. The task force report’s handed off now anyway; I promised to get a clean draft to someone else who can handle last-minute edits and turn it in while I’m gone next week, and I have duly done so.
The slides and handouts for JCDL are done, and they look pretty darn good even if I did design them myself. (Probably shouldn’t have printed them double-sided, because one of my design elements gets eaten on verso, but oh well. They’re plenty good enough.)
Now it’s just packing and last-minute stuff-into-the-repository stuff and remembering not to forget Nova’s video adapter and grabbing a copy of my train-ticket receipt just in case… and NOT PANICKING. Not. Just not.
In passing, one of the reasons I feel happy is that my two favorite SLIS professors, Kristin Eschenfelder and Greg Downey, have both achieved tenure! This augurs excellently well both for them and for SLIS. My heartiest congratulations!
I think I’ll go for a walk…
