Yearly Archives: 2011

Motivation Monday: Doubt

Doubt is the enemy. I took down this note in the middle of a dense reading I was trudging through finishing. I’m sure I was daydreaming about some other stuff, but hey, I think it helped me believe all this

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Workout Review: HIIT and Resistance Bands

Yesterday I finished Fitness Magazine’s “Lose 10 Pounds Workout” and wanted to document some pros and cons here. This was my make-a-goal/New-Year’s-Resolution plan, and I completed each day of cardio and resistance training. The cardio plans were essentially high impact

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Motivation Monday: Well-earned reprieves

Running up a hill lets you jog down a hill. Running 8mph makes 6mph a cakewalk.

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Pandora, potential employer for music librarians?

Just reading this article on the human element of music categorization, it struck me that those studying both music and libraries could be perfect for the work they’re describing. How can I like Katy Perry and Neko Case but not

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Motivation Monday: On Procrastination

You know you want what comes at the end, so you must also want what comes at the beginning.

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Lovecraft's Librarian: Preventing the World's Annihilation

I will now look at librarians as if each of them had the courage to investigate and prevent the “hellish advance in the black dominion of [an] ancient and once passive nightmare.”

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What running did for my resolutions

Anyone would ask me what my New Year’s resolutions was over the last few years would receive a very noncommittal and sarcastic response. It wasn’t my thing to think up grand visions of the person I thought I should be.

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