The ice, she is melting. This morning, raw and windy though it was, I saw the first skrat of spring sitting by a hole that probably had an ice-fisherman somewhere in its past.
This afternoon as I went on a small detour in order to vote in state and local elections (bye-bye Frankenveto, I hope), I stopped to watch a brown creeper sidling up a tree. Couldn’t go three steps without startling a robin.
Yes, okay, some of the big snowpiles still haven’t quite melted. It’s still spring.
In other news, since my JCDL preconference proposal got a big fat THANKS BUT NO THANKS stamped on it, I have a little more time to spare, and I’m going to spend some of it writing an article on authority control in institutional repositories for Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. Got to admit, I’m kinda jazzed about that. C&CQ is high-class stuff for this low-class repo-rat.
Plus, authority control isn’t nearly so vexed an issue as the stuff I’ve been writing about in Roach Motel. With any luck, this one won’t be like pulling teeth.
And I’m going to the summer data-curation institute being held by UIUC in June, which causes me to utter a hearty w00t!
