Caveat Lector

I will be moving my web presence to a new host sometime soon, probably within the next week. This will be a complex move, because the Yarinareth blog empire will be moving off individual installs of WordPress to either a WPMU or Lyceum install (depending on which takes less fiddling). So it may take me a few days. With luck, mail won’t bounce too much; if it does, my Gmail is always open.

I will also be retiring textartisan.com, because it’s just time. It served its purpose, but it doesn’t really have a purpose now, so let it go. I’ll keep it parked for a few years, because I don’t want it taken over by some moron spamvertiser.

I haven’t completely decided what I’ll do for a new professional web presence. If I could slap up a BibApp install and let it take care of my online résumé, I absolutely would, because I’m no better about maintaining it than faculty are. Lacking that, I’ll have to think of something else.

I gotta get off the road, y’all. DSpace has blown up twice in the last two days, and as some of you noticed, CavLec blew up too. I swear the damn servers know.

Anyway. CavLec is back. Hi.

For UW-Madison SLIS folks: Yes, barring extreme weirdness, I will be teaching 644 again this fall. There are 40 slots. Twenty-seven are full. I don’t know if the first-years have been slotted into courses yet… but it’s looking likely the class will be full.

If you’re hesitating, SIGN UP NOW to hold your space. You can drop the course if you hate me.

(I’m getting nervous about this, honestly. The buzz last fall was great, but it may have been too great; I’m not sure I can live up to it! And teaching 40 students is a very different proposition from teaching eleven.)

I’m at data-curation bootcamp, which is doing me good. Some things I’m learning. Some things I’m learning the shape of, and where the holes in my knowledge are. (Who knew there were so many data-curation-specific format standards? I didn’t.) Some things I’m discovering I’ve known all along, which is heartening. I’m meeting neat people (and people who remind me startlingly of, well, me), and trying not to spaz about DSpace going boom, and trying to sort out where MPOW and I go from here.

Back tomorrow night.

I’m tired. What with travel and all, I’ve been “working” seven days in a row, and while it’s been an amazing, enjoyable, and productive week professionally, I’m sorta mind-blown.

Tomorrow we drive out to the Great River Road and north to our boat. Then four days of boating, birding, and caffeine detoxification. Then whatever we want for a few days!

I will take Buffle along, because it’s my version of an emergency cell phone. But I doubt I’ll be using it much, which is as it should be.

Y’all be good while I’m gone.

So here’s the deal. I may be able to sneak into next week’s Project Bamboo meeting in Chicago, but I am not doing so at the behest of MPOW, and so I’ve got to dig up my own accommodations. Which is, um, expensive.

Is someone going who might be willing to split a room with me? Or is there someone who lives within public transport of the University of Chicago who might let me crash next Thursday and Friday nights?

Email me if you can help; all my email addresses are currently functional last I checked. I will be eternally grateful!

I inadvertently let the textartisan.com domain expire. I’ve renewed it, but until DNS catches up, my regular email address is nicely hosed. If it has to get to me, use dorothea dot salo at gmail dot com.

Yeah, don’t start, okay? It’s been a bad week.

Been a little quiet around these parts lately, and that is not likely to change soon. Nothing super-bad, just one of the every-now-and-then low spells I get and have to jolly myself out of.

There’s nothing externally wrong, so no fussing, please. Me and my brain chemistry just need to sit down for a chat.

Expect minimal blogging for the next two and a half weeks. I have half a book and a book review to finish in that time span, and it’s just not going to get done if I don’t throw myself into book gaol and toss away the key. (Note to self: Don’t move in the middle of a book project and an upcoming presentation. Superlatively bad idea.)

Home IM will be set to “away” a lot; if you need to bug me, bug me. I expect I’ll be even worse about answering email than usual. My Twitter feed may become an amusement for those who enjoy watching that sort of thing.

Have fun without me, y’all. Just not too much, ’k?

Everyone who needs to know first now knows, so I can officially announce:

I will be joining the University of Wisconsin System as Digital Repository Librarian effective March 19, 2007. My duties will revolve around Minds@UW, the state university system’s institutional repository.

Although Minds@UW and I serve the entire system, I will be based in Madison at Memorial Library. I look forward to (re)joining the good people at Wisconsin!

Passports, check. Photocopies of passports, check. Clothes, check. Presentation files both on Nova and thumb drive, check. Goth-kitties provided for, check. Zootibar, check. Dress shoes, check (though I almost forgot these!). Mail stopped, check. Hotel reservations, check. Knowledge how to get to hotel from airport, check.

What’s a Zootibar? Oh. It’s the name I finally gave the iGizmo I won off Elsevier. Not one of Dunsany’s prettier coinages, but it serves the purpose.

I think we’re just about ready to go. Should have wireless on the trip, but travel and blogging tends not to mix for me.

Y’all behave yourselves; I won’t be. Have a good week!

I heard this morning that my grandmother died last night. This was not unexpected, and all things considered it’s by way of being a mercy, but obviously it’s rather discombobulating, so I don’t expect to be doing much blogging for a few days.

I don’t know yet whether I will be attending the funeral, as it’s in an extremely out-of-the-way place that I will have considerable difficulty getting to since I don’t drive. My parents are calling this evening, and I expect to work it out with them then.

Hoping y’all’s day has been better than mine.