Proverbs 22:24-25

Do not associated with an angry man, or go with him,
Lest you learn his ways, and they become a snare for you.

Proverbs 16:9 The mind of (A)man plans his way,
But the LORD directs his steps.

Proverbs 20:24 Man’s steps are ordained by the LORD,
How then can man understand his way?

1 Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
16 restraining her is like restraining the wind
or grasping oil with the hand.

15 A quarrelsome wife is like
      a constant dripping on a rainy day;

17 As iron sharpens iron,
so one man sharpens another.

22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
grinding him like grain with a pestle,
you will not remove his folly from him.

25:11 A word aptly spoken
is like apples of gold in settings of silver

25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

22 In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, 
      and the LORD will reward you.

26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
or you will be like him yourself.

5 Answer a fool according to his folly, 
      or he will be wise in his own eyes.

26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit,
so a fool repeats his folly.

12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? 
      There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 22

6 Train [a] a child in the way he should go, 
      and when he is old he will not turn from it.

24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man,
do not associate with one easily angered,

25 or you may learn his ways 
      and get yourself ensnared.

29 Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will serve before kings;
he will not serve before obscure men.

I moved back to cataloging. Was this depressing? No, actually it was somewhat of a relief. Did anyone thank me for running the library for 2 1/2 years. Well, Sandy wrote me a thank you card. Remember her, one of the people who wrote a recommendation for assistent. Well, some things about moving left me feeling empty. No one cared that I left, no one particularly wanted me in cataloging. It was interesting. But I follow the Lord. I am not subject to my feelings. And there are good things ahead. AND there’s more motivation to find another job.

1. My contract ends on June 30, 2006
2. Reasons for 01/19/06:
Conversation with Jose Mallea
I decided to be frank. He asked me what I was doing after I leave this position. I said I’m looking for a job, I don’t know, it’s no tragedy, the Ctr didn’t want me around. - Oh, reallY? - that’s right, I was the library person - maybe they weren’t consulted, they had another person - no, there was no other person, furthermore, it seemed to be a gender thing with Joseba Z - Oh, but Basque men are quite egalitarian, you know - Well, no, not entirely - yes they are - well, no they’re not—woman in the U.S. haven’t had the vote for all that long, just since 1919 [implication is that in Spain they had something better] ** enough of that conversation.
3. conversation with G. Willis:
Here’s a list of tasks that you can work on. They are Mary’s responsibility but she won’t do them. —
OK, let’s work on posters, stopwords and Nevada control vocabulary.
4. conversation with D. Curtis:
Stopwords and control vocabulary are in Mary’s job description. Will you work with her on these projects?—I don’t really want to, but if her supervisor tells her to contact me, and she does it, then we can talk about it.
5. 2 hours later, here’s the email I get from Mary:

I wish I’d known about this before the meeting this afternoon! Are you free tomorrow to talk about this?
—-Original Message-—
From: Rick Anderson
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:46 PM
To: Mary Taylor
Subject: Authority work

Donnie came by my office today and mentioned that Kathryn is talking about spending part of her remaining time here working on an authority system and stopwords list for CONTENTdm. Donnie and I talked about it and both agreed that this sounds more like something for you to do (as per item 3 below), but that Kathryn’s expertise as a cataloger would probably come in handy. Would you get in touch with her (Kathryn) and talk to her about collaborating on that project during the next six months, before she departs? I don’t know how much background you have in authority work already, but if it’s less than Kathryn’s then this will be a valuable opportunity to pick her brain while she’s still here.

Make sense? Let me know if you have questions or concerns. (You could add this to your PE document, too!)

Thanks,
Rick

I think I’ll write a bit about my search for a job. These notes will remind me of where I am in the process, but may serve as an inspiration to others :-)

I took today as annual leave, intending to spend time contacting library employers in Carson City and hand them my resume. I spent half the day re-writing that resume; it’s never quite good enough.

Last week I meet with Pru Jones in career serviices at UNR. Thankfully, I’m enrolled as a student there, so their services are available to me. I checked out a few books with resume help and began to retool my library-oriented resume.

Today I visited:
Carson City Library, talked with Sally Edwards. Learned that she may have a position soon, but was reluctant to talk abou it. It’s head of cataloging—interesting. Also learned that CC doesn’t use the Washoe County pool to hire; they list jobs directly on the Carson City site.

Nevada State Library and Archives, talked with Sara Jones and Phyllis ?? who has a copy of my resume now. Sara says they will advertise for a govt docs librarian soon. She encouraged me to see Kathy Herrington at Supreme Court Library also. What the heck, it was next door, and I haven’t seen those people for a while
Supreme Court Library, spoke with Charlene and Kathy. Kathy hired an assistent last May. We chatted for some time about NJC and our kids. She suggested talking with Nan at the Legislative Council Bureau; they hire temps during legislative sessions.

I think I’ll take about 1 day a month to do things like this.

Then there’s the work I’m doing on the appearance front. It’s not easy looking for a job in your 50’s. One has to look her best. I’ve lost 14 lbs. I colored my hair this morning. I have some new clothes with a contemporary professional look. Makeup, well, I’m always open to improvement there.

So it begins. I’ll write entries from time to time to note my observations and my progress.

My daughter Colleen wrote about herself on her myspace, and I was impressed. I liked the idea. Young people are very self-aware, and they have this wonderful medium, the internet, on which to express themselves to the whole world. There’s both good and bad in that. But the good part is writing for fun, honing your skills, and perhaps thinking about who you are. Here’s a comparable entry about me:

I like to laugh-a lot-I like makeup, especially eye makeup-I hate nail polish on myself, but it’s fine on others-except I find elaborate nail jobs on fat bank tellers foolish-I like a glass of wine with dinner-I’m doing weightwatchers and it’s working-I too am a bookworm-I like being home-Love musicals-I guess some of my likes have rubbed off on my daughters (they like musicals too!)-I’m not good at sports-I think I understand people-I drink too much coffee, but I’m not going to give it up-I hate taking pictures. I don’t get a new hairdo often, but every time I do, my hair is shorter-how much shorter can I go?-I’m a torch singer wannabe-but I do have a pretty good voice-I love distaster stories-that makes me a disastraphile-I want my daughters to read more, challenge themselves more in reading difficult works-I did when I was their age, at least I remember it that way-I wonder why the best greens look good on other people, not on me-I want to work in another country, at least one more time in my life-I’ve always been soft on younger men; my husband is the exception-don’t expect me to remember your birthday without a gentle reminder-I’m full of profound observations: write them down, because I rarely get around to it-here’s one: today’s youth were raised on “Friends,” and their social network looks just like that; ours was more individualistic, and if I can think of a sitcom that exemplifies that, I’ll let you know-I like to wake at 2 am and talk; my husband does not-I have pretty things in my house; I like to move them around to make them look like World Market-I chew on my thumbnail sideways like my dad; is it genetic? also I stand unconsciously the way my grandmother used to—