One Week Later:
Just got back last night from my week in Austin, TX at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference. My colleagues and I had a great time, and learned a LOT. Now I have to sit down and digest all that good info into useful chunks that perhaps our library system can find useful. Also have to fill out an expense report for the reimbursable things. (Meals.)
Not this weekend, though. Today I had laundry and yard work to do. Tomorrow I will finish laundry and of course, go sing at church. It is also the 20th anniversary of the Murrah building bombing.My thoughts will be on what happened 20 years ago, not on the conference just past. Monday is soon enough to go over my notes and get them typed up.
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| Looking chubby for some reason at TXLA2015 |
Some observations from my trip:
And through the grey cool damp
We climb
And find once again
That the sun still shines
In spite of turbulence
And pain
Hope shines forth
For all again.
Wrote it as we climbed above the clouds as we were leaving for Austin. Funny though, it fits the story of our recovery from the bombing, too. We have climbed past the dark and pain, and hope and light fill our city again.
It's nice when an airline can keep its cool and just reschedule you around weather delays.
Adventures are fun but I prefer my cozy nook and my books.
It's really hard to write legibly when there's turbulence.
Need to develop a "Captain Obvious" character for our library videos.
For me, flying seems to be a diuretic. Alas.
It's cool when your celebrity friends acknowledge your tweets.
Twitter withdrawal: It's a Thing.
I may be a fussbudget, I may just be. But I'm organized!!
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| Scenes from a walk to the conference from the hotel. |
Austin is weird, but it's a beautiful kind of weird.
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| Bluebonnets growing close to the sidewalk in downtown Austin. |
My great adventure, wherein I was bitten or stung by some obstreperous insect or arachnid.
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| How the bite looked the night after. |
Library people are the best people there are - helpful, friendly, and caring. (Except when it's a race for the free book table. Then all best are off!)
Jewelry vendors do very well at library conferences. (Heavily female crowd, mostly far from home with no time to go shop away from the conference... and you are selling shiny things!)
Trying to write a coherent report on this conference is going to be like trying to force the ocean through a tiny little funnel. It's not all going to fit!
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| Digital citizenship session |
Tomorrow is the day I will try to wrap my head around the fact that it has been 20 years since the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in down town Oklahoma City, just two blocks away from the church we attend. So much has happened since, we've all grown so much since then.
Monday is soon enough to write my conference notes. Tomorrow is for the remembering of the bombing, and tonight is for relaxing.
