librarian meghan

Meghan lives in Brooklyn Wisconsin. She's not much into health food; she is into champagne. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-9569893-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

[thewhimsyturtle]

[cutereptiles]

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[librarian-by-night]

lately it seems that getting older means being disappointed by people I love(d) or look(ed) up to. 

[miss-vortex]

Portraits of Maine Coon Cats Who Look Like Majestic Mythical Creatures - Photographed by Robert Sijka

[choped]

[latinexplains]

After 20 painstaking years of research, Eva Ramon Gallegos, a Mexican scientist has finally developed a cure to eliminate 100 percent human papillomavirus and prevent the spread of cervical cancer among women. (x) (x) (x) Y’all they cured HPV

Yet Trump’s America wouldn’t want you to hear about this nor help it go mainstream

[wlwfiction]

Happy Black History Month! Here you’ll find Middle Grade and Young Adult books with Black WLW main characters by Black authors. An * indicates WLW authors.

Middle Grade

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender

Young Adult

The Weight of the Stars (The Wicker King #2) by K. Ancrum *

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow *

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert

Snow in Love: Four Stories by Melissa de la Cruz, Nic Stone, Aimee Friedman and Kasie West (WLW stories include ‘Grounded’ by Nic Stone *)

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett *

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

M+O 4EVR by Tonya Cherie Hegamin *

Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1) by Justina Ireland *

Untitled (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland *

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour *

37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon

A Blade So Black (A Blade So Black #1) by L. L. McKinney *

A Dream So Dark (A Blade So Black #2) by L. L. McKinney *

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Welcome Home: An Anthology on Love and Adoption edited by Eric Smith (WLW stories include ‘Happy Beginning’ by Nic Stone *)

Odd One Out by Nic Stone *

The Mark of Noba (The Sterling Wayfairer #1) by G. L. Tomas *

The City of Fallen Stars (The Sterling Wayfairer #2) by G. L. Tomas *

The Noban King (The Sterling Wayfairer #3) by G. L. Tomas *

End of All Worlds (The Sterling Wayfairer #4) by G. L. Tomas *

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson *

Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi (WLW stories include ‘Out of the Silence’ by Kekla Magoon and ‘Kissing Sarah Smart’ by Justina Ireland *)

[welcometoyouredoom]

Free Black History Library

[awholenutha]

Please keep boosting this, free knowledge is so important people.

[uwmarchives]

Vintage UWM Post Ads: 1980s

Paying for your phone month-by-month is not a new concept, as shown in this ad from the August 29, 1984 issue of the Post. AT&T even allowed customers to choose their own color and offered free repair.

Nor is using your phone to get a date a new idea. Instead of swiping one way or the other, however, 1980s student singles paid by the minute to search for mates. (October 30, 1986)

And if your date went badly, you could also use your phone to get a bit of revenge. This service, advertised to UWM students in March 1984, offered to deliver dead flowers as a way of sending a message to someone who had wronged you.

With the box office smash Urban Cowboy setting the trend, mechanical bull riding became a brief national fad. In this August 27, 1980 ad, Teddy’s on Farwell Avenue boasted of its new bucking bronco. This location is now home to Shank Hall.

The 1980s also saw the stand-up comedy craze hit campus. Jay Leno was one of a number of national acts to appear in the UWM Union Ballroom, and ads billing these appearances were advertised regularly in the Post. (September 19, 1985)

Movie ads were common in the Post for decades and, by the 80s, adverts for VHS sales and rentals appeared right alongside them. Here, the UWM Bookstore promotes its rental section by listing the most popular tapes of the semester. (November 17, 1988)

[librarian-by-night]

2019 More | Less

More: confidence, spontaneity, dancing, writing, film, stopping to take it all in

Less: worrying, procrastination, expectations, piles, waiting for it to come to me

(inspired by swiss-miss)

[librarian-by-night]

Saturday.

[librarian-by-night]

When we rescued this pup a year and a half ago, I didn’t know if it would work. He had a rough start to his life. He was so scared. Pushing himself into the wall at the shelter scared. Only staying in/not leaving one room of the house scared.

Little by little he began to trust us. We adventured and explored and met new friends at the park. Little by little we started trust him. Heel training and letting him wonder off leash.

Everyday I look forward to him greeting me when I’m home from work. Jumping straight up and then bronco-ing around with excitement. He snuggles nows. Asks to come up on the sofa. Waits for you to pay the cushion.

He’s my buddy. In a way I didn’t know I needed a buddy.

[vanish]

[librarian-by-night]

I was given this notebook years ago by a dear friend. I have this thing where I fear writing in new journals and messing them up. However, this year one of my dreams is finding confidence in my voice and to assist, this book of lists.

2018 Goals (in no particular order) - 15 non-school books - 2 half marathons - 1 finished professional website - 26 blog posts - 1 publication - 2 conference presentations - 3 travel trips - 5 rolls of film oh, and 52 lists

[librarian-by-night]

status update (1/19):

- 1 finished professional website (http://meghandowell.com) - 2 conference presentations (2 proposals submitted)

[librarian-by-night]

status update (3/1):

- 2 conference presentation proposals accepted! (CAPAL and Info Lit Summit here I come!) - blog post count: 2

[librarian-by-night]

status update (12/12):

- 1 half marathon (in March, that nearly broke me)

- 11 of 15 non-school books, with two sitting on my nightstand for winter break

- joint publication in Knowledge Organization 45(4)

- 2018 travel: Florida (March), Regina, Saskatchewan (May), London (August), Ann Arbor (October), Nashville (November)

- 2 rolls shot, still not developed (3 or 4 instax cartridges)

All in all, I’m pleased. Bring on 2019! 🥳🎉

[foxy-mulder-deactivated20190929]

this is the most powerful image on the internet.. reblog to join the circle

[yourbrothershotfriend]

Reblog to destroy all evil energies in your life

[princesstigerbelle]

PLS

[ppaction]

Here’s what Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know: ACA open enrollment begins TODAY!

Spread the word and #GetCovered.

[ironlion919-the-lone-vvoolf]

Also, the time to enroll has been CUT IN HALF. They tried to kill off the ACA, but could only manage to damage it.

*****You have until Dec. 15! Don’t delay!*****

[outforhealth]

healthcare.gov GO GO GO

[bi-trans-alliance]

Reminder: the deadline is December 15

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

Hey there US friends! If you’re voting using these machines (Hart eSlate) or similar ones right now or in the near future, make sure that the machine has NOT changed your ballot before casting it, ‘k? It’s apparently an already known problem, and has been for years, but has never been fixed.

Additional Source: https://abc13.com/politics/straight-party-voters-reporting-their-votes-were-changed/4556377/

[maleinstructor]

[kozacy]

In the heat of battle, photographer Horace Bristol captured one of the most unique and erotic photos of WWII.

Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.

“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”

“And well, there was his butt, and I had a camera. I mean I AM a historian.”

[orbisonblue]

That is the BEST EVER quote about the nature of historians I’ve ever seen