42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

What am I learning with my fancy, expensive edumacashion?
Lots of things, it turns out.

I don’t know anything.
Statistics will be very helpful to me, no matter how much I complain. All I can hope is that I will have someone else to do the dirty work.
I can write a paper to save my life.
I can control [...]

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You don’t realize how much you rely on technology, even something as basic as having electricity, until you don’t have it.
Yesterday, there was a huge storm here and elsewhere. Wind and rain battered the house for much of the day. Drains clogged. Trees fell. It looked more like a storm from the midwest. We got [...]

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So awful they’re great!
In a roundabout way, I discovered my new happy place, the Awful Library Books blog. It features out-of-date, sometimes offensive books still kept on library bookshelves.
I’ve just started studying library and information science, and decided to pick up some related blog reading. This will undoubtedly be one feed I’m sure to read [...]

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I was heartbroken when I learned that Douglas Adams had died in 2001. No more Hitchhiker’s books. I was sad, too, when I read the fragment of a a Dirk Gently book in The Salmon of Doubt, and thought, this is all there is. I want to know how it will end. And I can’t.
I [...]

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All the warnings say: Graduate school is not undergrad. Be warned. You will work hard. And I believed it. And still believe it.
I also haven’t written papers in at least six years. Mix that with a good knowledge of Associated Press style and you have a terrible mess. I’m out of the academic mindset. [...]

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I make no secret of my nerdiness. I readily admit that my dream home will feature a room of wall-to-wall bookcases with a hidden door and possibly another room that has a police call box for a door that leads into the TARDIS console room (Tom Baker era, please.)
My wishes are not out of the [...]

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