It Ain’t Over

Schools out all summer, but wait, save the date, don’t be late for your graduation day when all is fair in love and war, and school door closing means others opening for you to begin again, you can win. It’s a proven thing.

Schools out all summer, no more reading and writing, no more busting your brain causing migraines, no more professors who distress ya.

 No more restless nights studying, thinking thoughts of Oh My God I forgot there is a test…today…in an hour, I got to cram, so that my score will be the best and I can move past the rest cause they know and I know that “it ain’t over, this life right here, is the real test.

Spring Break…What a Joke!

Spring break only means that we will have more time to work on projects, research papers, exercises, labs, and any other homework we haven’t finished before the deadlines which are right around the corner. Ahh…. But also right around the corner is May and then blessed Mary of all on high, school will be out all summer.

 

I can read, I can write my own stories, (and not special papers,) I can watch all the movies I haven’t had a chance to watch, I can leave my house, I can smile again, I can even laugh, out loud no less, I can do what I love to do every year in the summer, ride the Staten Island Ferry. Yea!!

 

Lord please; just give me the strength to make it thru these last few weeks of school, Amen.

College is for Graduates

One day a week, I walk down the street, to the college that feeds me knowledge.

I enter my class and hear the girl laugh who thinks our professor is funny (humorous that is)

Sitting and listening to the professor as she teaches everything that she knows, I am thinking and thinking could I be wrong in the choice that I made to one day be a librarian?

All I know is books and knowledge of books but nothing about libraries or how they grow.

These classes teach me skills and they help me to know more and more about library science and things I must know if I am to become a success at helping libraries to grow.

Thank God I love my classes and my professors who bring lots of laughter, from others like me just want a degree and a job that makes research LC EZ!

 

 

Divorce, the “Green Card” of Marriage

Divorce is just as common and just as difficult as applying for a Green Card.  When Appling for a Green Card., there are appointments you have to make, you have to fill out lots of paperwork, you have to have an interview, there has to be a determination about your case, and then a decision is made, oh and there is a fee which can add up to an extreme amount of money, Its tiresome, trying, and in the end someone is going to be very happy or extremely disappointed.

While in the middle of this thing I am .trying to focus on going to school, going to work everyday, when all you really want to do is just stay home, put your head under the covers, eat ice cream every day and basically try to maintain a normal life (whatever that means) Everyday while in the middle of getting a divorce I find myself, staring into space wondering, How? Why?

I do this like everyday, because, I keep trying to figure out how did I get here, why am I here, what did I do to cause this, what didn’t I do? Then I think, about how none of this has anything to do with me, but how it has everything to do with me. You know what I mean?

Everyone tells you don’t worry, he was not good enough for you, or he is going to get what he deserves for treating you this way, or what goes around comes around.

Yeah right, at the time he was good enough and he treated me wonderfully, and I thought he had already got his-what-goes around, by marrying me. I hated finding out that someone you loved has lied in such a manner that all you can do is try not to be a victim of some officer’s police report.

 …..ho hum back to to LiFe.

 

 

I Want to Be a Librarian….

So, I moved to New York, like eleven years ago from Kansas City, really from Atlanta, but because I only live there  in ATL, for like six months I say Kansas City where I lived for like forever. When I moved to New York, I started my first real job, working at the library as a “Page.” I hated being called the “Page” oh the “Page” will get it,  asked the “Page” anyway you get my meaning I loved being the “Page” I just never got used to be called the “Page”. Then I got a promotion from being a “Page” to being a clerk, then I found out that I liked to answer questions and help people look up things, find out information, help with the computers, find books, give directions, be the ear, the shoulder and sometimes the voice. So I decided to find out how does one become a Librarian. ….And so my journey began. I worked at the Prison upstate, then the Culinary Inst., then the Voice, Then NY, Medical, then the public library in Missouri, then A Fashion Library in Manhattan, then I found out that if I worked at a Library at a college more specifically Queens, I could get a degree in Library Science, and be on my road to not just working in the library, I could be the Librarian. Wow, me a Librarian. I was excited. I would be a professional person with a Masters, the only person in my whole family with a Master’s Degree. Now, when I first started out I wanted to be a YA librarian, I liked talking to children, love reading Children and YA novels.  However,  now,  I’ve found that I really would like to be a Military Librarian. I really want to work in a Military Library, I was in the Military for five years and loved it.  So this is now my focus to get done and get started on the next part of my life. I want to be a Librarian…….in the military.