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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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?

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!

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 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.