Oh, right, that whole school thing...

I realized I've been in school for almost 6 months now and have not blogged about it ONCE. Probably because it's pretty dull, but maybe I'll share anyway, yes?

I'm in the Library and Information Tech, Accelerated, program here at Seneca College. It's "accelerated" because they took the first 2 semesters and crammed them into one for us, so it's a one year program instead of a two-year program. It's not exactly rocket science, so that's not really as crazy as it sounds. Even condensed, the first 2 semesters worth of classes seemed pretty slow to me. I was worried that with 10+ years of library work under my belt, this would be almost entirely review and therefore incredibly dull for me. Well, it's still pretty dull, but there's also some good, useful stuff. A lot of things that I'd learned on the job, I'm starting to see more of the exact hows and whys of them. Cataloguing, primarily. Nothing has been terribly challenging so far, but it's been less dull than I had feared.

Which isn't to say there aren't many moments of extreme boredom. For instance, probably half of my blog posts have been written during classes in the computer lab (like today's, in a class on blogs of all things). In a week, though, things should get a bit more interesting, at least temporarily. One of our requirements for graduation is to complete 3 different 2-week field placements in different types of libraries, as assigned by the field placement coordinator (we don't get to choose, or there's no way I'd be going where I am for my first placement). It's unpaid, but still, it's like going back to work, and I'm looking forward to that. Even if my first placement is at a Government special library - the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Strategic Planning and Implementation Branch. Woo! It's downtown, too, which is both a plus (I'll have a chance to explore more of downtown) and a minus (I have to take 3 separate subways to get there). I'm going to try to keep an open mind, though - it could be much more interesting than it sounds. I hope. It starts on the 22nd, and lasts 2 weeks, so even if it sucks, it'll only suck for a little while.

I slack, therefore I am

Um, so I'm a horrible blogger. Actually, I'm just bad at correspondence of any sort. In the past week or so, I've been yelled at by 2 different people for not communicating with them at all since I've moved here. One, my old boss, who was really more like an aunt to me and I feel terrible about not keeping in touch with. The other, my sister via my mom, although honestly I've gone 6 months or so without talking to her before, so I didn't really notice that it'd been that long. Regardless, I've been chastized, and I will make it a priority to send them each a PERSONAL note before this week is out. Also, to update a bit more since there's been a lot of stuff going on that I can share.