Courses

My coursework in Library Technology continue. I read papers, textbooks, articles, use online tools for research or cataloging (which is much preferable to trying to do it manually), and I write papers and do projects and turn things in for grading. There's even quizzes and midterms. And this is for credit, at a properly accredited school. This is important because my investment needs to be paid off in a job at some point. Even people I dislike politically and socially still deserve the right to read. And maybe by reading, they'll learn something important, maybe even change their mind. That isn't silly, since the sharpest capitalists are the converted hippy pot growers. They invest their time and money, and they sell for a profit. So much for hippy love. Sweating on a hillside all summer really strips away your BS, and A/C isn't free. These are the people I serve at the library, and its pretty amazing. I have shelved, several times, books on building underground eco-bunkers, which are bunkers loaded with carcinogenic chemicals and mold spores that will ruin your lungs and kill you, often in soil that's saturated with mercury and arsenic, both of which are poisonous and drive you insane. Which explains a great deal. Old pot smokers sometimes trigger their schizophrenia. I saw one of those at the market today. Communism fails when you have your own comfort and survival in one hand, and death along with the person you pretend to save in the other. Not very nice, and its a lesson you learn or die from it. That's just how things are. Up here you learn that lesson sooner than later. There are SO MANY object lessons to observe, after all.

Once I get through with this program, I'm applying for the Masters program and get started there. Hopefully I can start that next January. I will want to apply this summer, once I have the grades, and I'll be talking to the counselor at the University to verify this with an agreement for passing the courses for Summer and Fall semesters, which gets my GPA where it needs to be to qualify for the school. Lots of A's after all. I need them. With that degree, and my work experience as a volunteer, I should be able to work for a proper wage at a paying library that has a real budget. Or even a remote and very cheap living library in a place like Sierraville or Portola or Alta. Maybe even Ashland, at the university. Imagine getting paid real money to run a library in Oregon? That would be okay, I think. It would be a real change from what I'm used to, and maybe that would be good for me, as well. The internet Trolls are irritating, and they love to pick fights with conservatives and constitutionalists. They are easy targets, after all. However, what they are doing is the sort of childish crap you'd expect. Meh. I really wish I believed in the future of this country, but at this point I believe in regional strengths, and think we should all worry about those the most. Our region. Our nation is full of cancer, and its dying. Our region will live on when the nation is history.