Back From the Dead

I've been out of school for five years. That sounds like a long time...and it truly is that long. I feel like when I was last in school I was learning about how to memorize each planet (including Pluto). Yes, that's how long ago it was. Now I'm back. Thrust into another building full of zombie-like students shuffling down the halls, piles of papers and assignments due within hours of each other, and mornings when the skies are still dark upon waking (when usually the sun would be high in the sky when I force myself out of bed). Why am I here (so early in the morning)? To become a library technician; to work at a school library and hand tissues to children who like reading 'Clifford the Big Red Dog' books, or to unplug internet connections at a high school when I find a student searching for porn (even though he claims he was 'wondering where babies come from'. Watching 'One Night in Paris' is not going to teach him anything about babies.)

What is a botch job? An online dictionary describes it as:
1) To make or preform clumsily; bungle

2)To repair or mend clumsily.

When you see the title of this blog you're probably thinking, 'huh, maybe this girl saves all of her assignments until the last minute and botches them all up!'. That is sadly incorrect. I try my best at every assignment that is handed to me. I do them all ahead of time, and haven't missed one yet. However, I find that every bit of homework I get I somehow manage to botch up on my own. Classic me. Either my brain goes dead half way through and I just rush through the end, or else I misinterpret the instructions and my instructors get a completely different paper back than they originally assigned.

So here we are, one month in and moving on to assignment 11 or 12 (yes, it has only been one month). Blogging. Dun DUN DUNNN!

I couldn't figure out a name for my blog so I decided to name it what it would possibly inevitably become, a botch job.

I know, you're probably worried about this becoming a boring school related blog- but fear not! This is a diary of how I wade through the thick quick sand-like effect that school has on someone who's been out of it for so, so long. I'll enjoy being able to rant and rave, maybe even educate, whoever reads my blog. It's a good outlet for when my brain is moments away from exploding as I try to catalogue 'Curious George Gets Curious: a book about a male monkey and his male monkey friend' by Stephen Almond, author of 'Let's Get Loud: a biography of Jennifer Lopez'. How do you even catalogue that?

What's that you're asking? 'Why do I need to know how to blog to become a librarian technician?' There's tons of reasons! If not just for peace of mind, but also to communicate with my teachers and fellow students. Librarians do blog- I KNOW! That may shock you, it shocked me at first but here we are, 2011 and I bet you're library even has its own facebook. You want that new graphic novel by your favourite artist Jhonen Vasquez? Well why don't you facebook your librarian? Or comment on one of his or her new book blogs to ask if he or she's going to be getting it in. The future is now, and you CAN actually do that. Get excited kids, being a librarian just got a lot more digital. It's like living in the Matrix...only not as much leather...and no evil machines....yet.

Anyway, I've ranted enough for now, but don't worry, I will be back to update you on the comings and goings of my mind. Stay tuned and eat your carrots, they keep your eye's strong so you can read more books! (see, I'm going to be a great librarian.)