• Sometimes when it's real. slow. at. the. desk. it seems like the day didn't even happen at all. And I couldn't find where that woman's class was! Or satisfy the CPE student! Long Sunday.
• Read some more On Writing Well, but couldn't make it through kind of watching the Oscars.
  I liked this paragraph on revising well enough a few days ago that I folded over a tiny corner on page 87:

• More biking and celebrating than reading today.

• On Writing Well
• More of Counterpoise
• Call numbers for books for MALS class; American print culture and the construction of publics...
  

• Constance Penley, "Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics and Technology"--highly recommended article about women and Star Trek slash fanzines
• Robin D.G. Kelley, "'We Are Not What We Seem': The Politics and Pleasures of Community"
• Kelley, "The Riddle of the Zoot Suit"--also really great; talks about Malcolm X's writing about his time as a zoot suiter and how his later perspectives clouded his recollection of the cultural significance of his hipsterism.
  

• The Pscychology of Moving
• Inside a Divided Upper East Side Public School
  

• Raymond Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Theory
• Zitkala-Sa, School Days of an Indian Girl
• Finished Trachtenberg; recommended--his vision of American culture is a bit bleak, but true to life (largely powered by capitalism, for worse rather than better).
  

• More Trachtenberg, with a particularly enjoyable part about the myth of Thomas Edison as inventor and made man (as opposed to entrepreneur with an economic eye and workshop of collaborators)
• Booking a Flight the Frugal Way
  

• The last bits of the latest Bitch with breakfast
• More Trachtenberg, which I am finding hard to concentrate upon whilst on the train
  

• Most of today's reading was on the interwebs in preparation for this event, for which we librarians created a wiki.

• More Bitch, my reappointment CV.

• Somehow I am teaching three Television/Radio/Communications classes tomorrow. I would have liked to read a few results for searches in Ebsco databases, but they would not load from home. Thinking lately (with help from J.) that technical glitches and tutorials should not be what we teach.

• Reading and writing to-do lists (academic, shopping, deadlines and teaching) and proposals (talks, papers, grants) seems to take up the 90% of my sitting-down-getting-things-done time.

• Homework: The West in American mythology, the Frontier as it Americanizes all of us (via Nash Smith of the UW, interestingly), Buffalo Bill and the blur of the real (history vs. narrative and show) and Kaplan getting all imperial (thank you for that last little bit about Africa and Vietnam and the Philippines and the lack of awareness of the meaning of those helicopters dashing away while filming Apocalypse Now!).

• Broken Pencil-got a sub!

• I have been very poor about reading on the train lately. Somehow if it's not fiction or a codex, I can't get myself into it on the platform or on the train. Or maybe it's just the normal procrastination that accompanies homework.
• I printed out a good many things about the kindle today, and noticed a bunch of free ebooks online.
  

• Kept reading our proposed abstract for the Conference on Intellectual Property over and over (and our readers helped immensely), until I had all the PDFs in order and sent it off. I like confirmation emails on proposals; they seem to come easily and have an excited person at the other end of the computer tubes.

• Communications research textbooks for weeding (lots changed since 1996! Things like calling email "internet electronic mail")

• We went to 'Snice and I read my homework. I need to remember to keep a dictionary handy, as I have slowly become someone who does not skim over words, but insists upon looking everything up. I bothered Matt a lot because he has a dictionary on his computer, with or without the wireless.

• A lot of 2010 so far has been about organizination and getting hardware on the up and up in my free time, and today I finally got GnuCash to work properly (without futzing up the back end myself), and re-installed Open Office. Contemplating going totally linux. Reeling in numbers and installation pop-ups. Is this reading? Caught up on blogs amidst all of this-especially glad that Library Praxis is back up!

• Zine from Kelsey, "Getting the Guts Out" (really nice!)
• Ira Shor's Critical Teaching and Everyday Life has been rattling all my dreamy illusions about education, and feels so close to home and pertinent that I suspect someone is looking over my shoulder when I read it (especially on the train).
  

• Bits of Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, and supplemental materials from the BC New Faculty Retreat.

• More Wao, which made me laugh out loud more than once and read nerdy parts (400 hit points!) to Matt.

• The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

• Critical Teaching and Everyday Life by Ira Shor. Introduction was pretty amazing; about CUNY and the struggles of the open admissions.
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  

• More writing than reading today, and business librarianship homework.

• Beret Knitting Pattern; finished, but waaaaay too big!

• A Passage for Dissent: The Best of Sipapu, 1970-1988
• Play it As it Lays by Joan Didion
  

• A Passage for Dissent: The Best of Sipapu, 1970-1988
• spreadsheets of info about earnings, spendings, retirement, debt.
  

• "What about George?" from the New York Times
• Patti Smith's New York Love Affair: An Excerpt From Her Memoir "Just Kids"
• Online business class reading; lotsa company info websites
  

• Jerianne's Literature Review and Zine Cataloging Needs Assessment
• "Synergy, Social Responsibility, and the Sixties: Pivotal Points in the Evolution of American Outreach Library Service" by Toni Samek, in Libraries to the People
• Some of the new (Winter 2009) issue of Radical Teacher
• Skimmed Revelling in New York zine, recommended!
  

• Finished In Dubious Battle on the morning commute (perfect timing as we pulled into my station)
• Skimmed Alternative Library Literature: 1998-99 (27 page index!) and 82/83, 88/89
• Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation
  

• A few chapters of In Dubious Battle
• Skimmed library-related zines, a few issues of Progressive Librarian, Alternative Library Literature, Sipapu, Booklegger's Guide to the Passionate Perils of Publishing and Alternative Materials in Libraries
• Content on my GSLIS continuing education business research course via Moodle
  

Yesterday the only thing I read was Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day, a present from my secret santa, in an effort to teach myself to make a good sandwich loaf.

Just finished reading Victoria Law's Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women and wanted to recommend it. Vikki's book is an inspiring read, a great work of activism, and a eye-opening archive of the life of women in prison.