adventuresinemmaland replied to your post: guys you gotta kill the imps to stop them from...
Wait but isn’t it okay because they need to get arrested anyway? I thought they had to kill everyone so Utugash wouldn’t know they were coming, but I might have been not listening.
one of the stipulations of their contract was that proof of Ipkesh’s involvement in Utugash’s murder couldn’t get out. maybe it’s a long shot and me being paranoid, but with the level of surveillance kept up by the imps in Dis, i’m worried VM is gonna be connected to Ipkesh and he’ll be implicated, making Percy’s soul forfeit (in an ironic turn of phrase)
adventuresinemmaland replied to your post “Reading comments on recipe blogs crack me up”
I love those comments because, as an inexperienced cook, I don't know what sort of things I can mess with and which I can't. If other people substitute them and talk about it, then I know!
True. I guess I was thinking about the comments that seem to imply that the commentors are better cooks or have better suggestions than the original blogger.
Hi, there! I'm a first year teacher who's looking into doing something different in the coming years. I've worked for the local public library since I was 16, so I'm interested in school librarianship. Since I'm also from Illinois (though not Chicagoland), I was wondering if you'd be willing to talk to me about how you got to be a school librarian. Was it something you knew you wanted to do, or did you stumble upon it? What's the certification like? Regardless, thanks for your time. :)
Hi, I hope you don’t mind if I make my response public.
To be honest, there are days when I look around and wonder, “How did I get here?” but luckily, it’s in a good way. I used to teach high school for three years before I finally made the switch. There isn’t an actual event or conversation that I can point to and say, “There. That’s the moment that I decided to become a librarian.” Instead, I think it was just a steady stream of coincidences that gradually pushed me in the right direction.
My experience with school librarians has been varied. Like most people, I had the most interaction with school librarians in elementary and middle schools. In high school, I spent more time at the public library.
As a teacher, my experience was also somewhat varied. I knew that we had a librarian at my first school, but it was knowledge that bordered on hearsay. Sighting the librarian was sighting Bigfoot.
After I transferred schools my second year, I met a librarian who was really involved. She was the one who dictated the research project schedule in the English department in order to ensure that there were enough resources for all of the students. She also taught the students how to find and cite their sources.
That was the first time that I saw that librarians can actually teach, too. I think that’s also when I started to realize that librarianship isn’t about books as much as it is about information.
Anyway, my third year was back in Chicago and I met a great part-time librarian at my school who really encouraged me to look into different MLIS programs in the area. I did my research and found two ALA-accredited schools in Illinois—University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and Dominican University in River Forest—and chose the latter because I’ve already attended UIUC as an undergrad and I wanted to try a different school. Plus, I didn’t realize that UIUC has an online program (LEEP), so I could attend remotely, but still, I’m really happy with my experience at Dominican University. Check out the site and look for any upcoming information sessions. That's what I did and that really helped make my decision easier.
Since you already have a teaching certificate, it’s going to be easier for you to go through the school library program since you won’t need to take education courses in addition to your library courses. You will, however, still need to take certification tests similar to the APT at the end of your program. If you are not familiar with different types of educational technology, I recommend that you practice using them so you become used to them. I strongly believe that I was hired because I’m more comfortable using technology than my predecessor, who actually resigned. She wasn’t fired because she was uncomfortable with teaching technology. Having a teaching background is also an asset. I don’t know about other schools, but I have almost the same teaching load as the regular education teachers. I see all of the students for an hour every week and I teach. I have to submit lesson plans and make sure that grades are entered, as well. I meet with parents and conference with them during report card pick-up (if they feel like coming to see me).
I expect that this is much more than you wanted or needed, but it’s a bit of a background on how I came to be where I am. I hope that this was useful. If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate.
adventuresinemmaland said: I once realized that I had called two different things my favorite things in two consecutive sentences. I followed it up with “I have a lot of favorite things, just like Oprah.” It’s probably the cleverest I’ve ever been in my life.
If I were you, I would be proud of myself. That is pretty great.
adventuresinemmaland replied to your post: How do you find a valid excuse for declining...
My mother always told me that if you don’t want to go there, it is always okay to say you have other plans or something you have to do. After all, there is certainly SOMETHING you can do, and it’d be rude of them to ask why beyond that.
I always feel moderately guilty doing that. But also because it's not that I don't want to do things with this friend, I just know that I'm not going to want to at that point in time because I'll be tired.
Thank you for posting that quote because I /thought/ that's what Neville said, but I wasn't quite certain.
hahaa no problem! (x he did definitely say that and I couldn’t stop laughing because everyone in the fandom must’ve been squealing when those words came out of Neville’s mouth LOL
