• Wild Seed
• Re-read parts of "Don't Leave your Friends Behind: Anarcha-Feminism & Supporting Mothers and Children" zine, which I came across a copy of in a box of donated materials at work.
• "Notes on Anarchism" zine by Noam Chomsky, in which he quotes Rudolph Rocker:
  

• Started Blindness, by José Saramago
• All of Dan Clowes' new graphic novel, Wilson. Pretty depressing. 15 minute read, so glad I didn't buy it. Each page had the thickest paper I've ever seen in a graphic novel.
• More of Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, which I am really enjoying
  

• The U.S. Social Forum program
• Finished A Gate at the Stairs on the road trip home
• Started a bit of Octavia Butler's Seed to Harvest compilation
• Added many good things to the reading list!
  

• More Lorrie Moore.
• Boot-up screens at the techie house. I helped two get going (before we lost power)!
• Crimping. Not Krumping.
  

• A Gate at the Stairs, on my first-ever significant train ride. Great reading, great sights.

• Caroline Sinkinson & Mary Canton Lingold, "Re-visioning the Library Seminar Through a Lens of Critical Pedagogy," from Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods.
• Mary Rose Torrell, "Negotiating Virtual Contact Zones: Revolutions in the Role of the Research Workshop" also from Critical Library Instruction.
  • This piece got me thinking of a new brainstorming exercise that might help to start off the process of thinking about "research" in library sessions--exciting!

• U.S. Social Forum program (!!)
• Collection development marathon...
• From NYPL's Twitter feed: "One sure window into a person's soul is his reading list."- Mary B. W. Tabor
  

• Choice cards--collection development!

• Today my reading was centered on Information Literacy in preparation for Immersion. I'm starring the ones that I found particularly useful/interesting:
  • *Ken Bain, "How Do They Conduct Class?" from What the Best College Teachers Do.
  • Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen with Nancy O'Neill, "Curricula Designed to Meet 21st-Century Expectations" from Educating the Net Generation.
  • *Parker Palmer, "The Heart of a Teacher: Identity and Integrity in Teaching" from The Courage to Teach.
    

• Waded through a backlog of periodical mail; On Wisconsin had an article about the founder of the Mustard Museum and a nice photo of the newly renovated WHS. Two places I wish I'd made it to.
• Sometimes American Libraries columns remind me of Jean Teasdale.
• I also started my Immersion homework.
• More Lorrie Moore. Since there seems to be a Wisconsin theme,
  

• More of A Gate at the Stairs, even though there are many other non-fiction books that I should be reading.

• I broke down and got A Gate at the Stairs to read in the park. It was a perfect lazy day read, and all of the reviews about it being quite obviously set in Madison were true, so that adds a little to it for me, other than it just being amazing in general.

• Many, many emails.

Just tiny bits of:

• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
• Dune over M's shoulder
• Tinkers by Paul Harding

What can I say; I was on vacation.

• All of a Jeffrey Brown compilation while on a plane at JFK, not even off the ground.
• Life story of a German woman who Isabella knew and who wrote of her life on a really old computer and printed out the tale for her friends and family after her death.