For the Moment..

Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences student. Disney Channel addict. Pet lover. Reading fanatic.

[librarianproblems]

THE #1 REASON TO BECOME A CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN

[emilycar]

That's kind of exactly what my train of thought was! How great is life

[whatshouldwecallme]

When my friend says that no one our age watches the Disney channel unless they have kids

[emilycar]

Me me me me I stillll watch!

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Apollo 1 crew practicing a water landing in 1966.

[itsokaytobesmart]

It doesn’t look like a “water landing” so much as “best pool party ever”

[tylerknott]

Presence or absence, when presented with either, you’ll be feeling me.

Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

[whatshouldwecallme]

Pretty much my reaction to everything throughout the day

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[housewifeswag]

this really makes me happy. I’m so thankful that domestic violence is being talked about more.

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[nprfreshair]

Pretend you’re going here this weekend. 

[emilycar]

Breakfast.

[emilycar]

Something to Believe in?

Last week I downloaded an app called goTandem. It took a evaluation to see where I am in my spiritual beliefs and how I'm feeling about my life. Then, each day it sends me bible verses tailored to that evaluation. They really are beautiful, and keep me coming back several times a day to read them. They make me fill up inside with beautiful feelings and thoughts, and kind of make me happy when I read them. Maybe this is what I'm looking for?

[emilycar]

One of the days of DecemberStillnes im partaking in.

[neutral-wizard]

Posted in the student union

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[emilycar]

I need a second kitty!

[weneeddiversebooks]

On Wednesday, We Need Diverse Books™ advisory board member Jacqueline Woodson—author of the marvelous Brown Girl Dreaming—was one of several authors honored with a National Book Award. As has been reported on various websites, host Daniel Handler made a number of racist remarks during that night, including regarding Jacqueline Woodson. Handler has since apologized and said:

My remarks on Wednesday night at #NBAwards were monstrously inappropriate and yes, racist.  It would be heartbreaking for the #NBAwards conversation to focus on my behavior instead of great books. So can we do this? Let’s donate to #WeNeedDiverseBooks to #CelebrateJackie.  I’m in for $10,000, and matching your money for 24 hours up to $100,000. Brown Girl Dreaming is an amazing novel and we need more voices like Jacqueline Woodson.

Many people on Twitter have urged Handler to donate to our fundraiser, and we’re glad to see this has had an effect. For twenty-four hours starting at 8AM EST on Friday, November 21, Handler is doubling donations—up to $100,000—made to the We Need Diverse Books™ campaign. If anyone has been intending to donate, we’d like to suggest they do it within this time frame to let their donation count double.

Among many other goals (detailed on the fundraiser page), we intend to use these donations to fund publishing internships for people from diverse backgrounds in an effort to diversify the publishing industry behind the scenes. We believe that’s an important step toward making the industry more welcoming to people of all backgrounds and prevent mistakes like Wednesday’s.

To center this conversation back on National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and her astonishing accomplishment, we have added several special today-only #CelebrateJackie perks to our fundraiser. Donors can choose to receive signed books, including her most recent release Brown Girl Dreaming.

Please spread the word and #CelebrateJackie!

[weneeddiversebooks]

UPDATE: We’ve exceeded $50k in donations today! We have under twelve hours left to raise further money toward the $100k goal, so please keep spreading this post. We especially suggest writers to keep checking our IndieGoGo page, as we’re working on offering several new editor and agent critiques as perks.

Thanks to today’s generous donations, we’ve surpassed $150,000 and thus both our our campaign’s stretch goals. This brings us to our third stretch goal: sustainability.

The problem with diversity in children’s literature won’t be solved over night or even in a year. Battling entrenched barriers for diverse books takes sustained effort. Your donations from here on out, every single dollar, helps WNDB maintain our long-term viability and to continue to change the face of children’s literature for years to come. 

Thank you so much for your support in the aftermath of this event.

[emilycar]

current thoughts;

running through my head right now is the fact that I know that someday I want to be in a relationship with a truly good person..someone that is good to his very core. But, someone that is good to his core deserves someone good to her core... And that is not me. I dislike my past. I don't feel deserving and worthy of a truly good person.

[emilycar]

jealousy.

I do not want to live my life like you are living yours, so why am I jealous?

Or, if this feeling isn't jealousy, WHAT IS IT.

I just want to be happy for everyone.

[emilycar]

I want to Tumblr more, but I feel like I would if I had more followers! I NEED TO BE FUNNY and/or ENTERTAINING! Or become a fashion/makeup blog.

Hm...