Blog Scavenger Hunt

Cat, of Caterwaulling, has challenged me to yet another meme! Check out her post: http://caterwauller.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-scavenger-hunt.html#links

And the rules are:

• Use a different blog to answer each question.
• Be sure to include hot links in your answers, and if you’re referencing a specific post, be sure you’re linking to the permalink for that post.
• Not every linked blog needs to be a library person or a L&P participant.
• If you do this meme, please come back here and give me a link so I can read it!

The Things to Find Are:

1. A blog written by someone who lives close to you physically.
2. A blog you read written by someone you’ve never met, but would like to.
3. A blog written by someone who has the job you used to have, or the job you want to have someday.
4. A blog entry that made you think about something a new way.
5. A blog entry that made you laugh so hard your co-workers and/or family asked to know what was going on.
6. A blog from someone you’ve known a long time but haven’t hung out with in a long time.
7. A blog or post that inspired you to start blogging (or just written by the person who got you going).
8. A blog from someone you never thought would be blogging.
9. An article/post/site that you think could change the library world.
10. A blog you’ve found that makes you feel great every time you read it.

My Scavenger Hunt Finds:

1. (drumroll please…) It’s Caterwauller herself! We just realized we are neighbors a couple of months ago. I was out walking the dog and she was (somewhat groggily) on her way out to the car for work!
2. I have never met Library Joy, but I’d like to. I get her Twitter updates and she seems really funny and into some cool things like yoga, craftiness, and dogs!
3. I envy the job of Christina Katz, the Writer Mama. I surely don’t have her talents or skills, but I think her profession of writing, blogging, and conducting writing workshops would be a fun one.
4. Hmmmm, a blog that makes me think about things in a new way quite often is my friend Katie’s Travelpod blog. She’s a volunteer in the Peace Corps working in Guatemala. Her blog brings a completely different part of the world into my home as well as my mind and my heart.
5. This post made me laugh out loud when I read it.
6. I’ve known this blogger a long time. He’s a former CML-er now living in Germany with his lovely wife and son. We used to get together when he came to Columbus to visit, but it’s been quite awhile… He’s hilarious.
7. There are several bloggers I can point to who got me interested in writing a blog of my own. But, there’s one blogger who is the author of the first blog I started to follow: The Artful Parent. Her posts are beautifully written, her artwork and creativity with her daughter are inspiring, and I just feel happy when I visit her little corner of the web.
8. A blogger I never thought would blog. I am going to cheat and call this one a tie. Girlbrariana and mnbtiu.
9. Instead of a blog that could change the library world, I chose one that no doubt already has: Tame the Web.
10. And, last but not least, a blog that makes me feel great: Everyday Baby Studios. We have our first photo session with Jessi this weekend!

Wow, would you look at that? I linked up to 5 CML staff blogs and 2 former-CML-staff blogs! This was fun!

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Meme from Caterwaulling

 

Cat has this meme posted on her blog, and it’s easy and kind of cool. Not completely “me”, but definitely some merit to it. Give it a try!

Katie’s Dewey Decimal Section:

105 Serial publications

Katie’s birthday: 12/7/1978 = 127+1978 = 2105

Class:
100 Philosophy & Psychology

Contains:
Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.

What it says about you:
You’re a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Bonus Thing

1. OK, the CML stuff first. I was a Page before there were LSA’s and a Clerk before CSA’s and CSS’s. I’ve been in the system 12 years.
2. My husband and I met at the library, although he was not an employee. (We’re actually kind of the result of a set-up.) We’ve been married 8 1/2 years. If not for him, I would not have absorbed so much Seinfeld trivia nor developed an interest in the Tour de France.
3. My retirement dream is to move to Maine, buy an old farmhouse, and open a bed & breakfast.
4. I have naturally curly hair and it drives me crazy when people ask me about it – I don’t like the implication that I might possibly have a perm!
5. I love to travel. A few years ago, the husband and I took a cross-country 3-week trip out West, visiting St. Louis, MO; Moab, UT; Sedona, Flagstaff and Grand Canyon, AZ; Santa Fe and Taos, NM before looping back home. The kicker–we made the trip in my ‘94 standard transmission, NO cruise control Saturn. Yeah, that made the Rockies interesting. Still, it’s our favorite trip.
6. I can’t stand the word ‘whatnot’.
7. Typos, misprints, grammatical errors, the stuff on Jay Leno’s Headlines are my worst pet-peeves. That’s why I enjoy reading this blog.
8. Garden gnomes freak me out.
9. As a child, I was i n c r e d i b l y shy. I hated talking to ’strangers’ like my parents friends, employees at stores or restaurants, doctors, etc., even on the telephone. I’m not sure when I got over all that…maybe not until high school.
10. I love mail. As much as I enjoy and feel thankful for email, blogging, IM, chat, etc., I still love sending and receiving handwritten notes and letters. Besides feeling special and more personal, one of the best things about mail is that it combines two things that I love/am fascinated by: stationery and people’s handwriting.

OK, that’s it, that’s all! I invite readers to post a comment with a link to your 10 random things.