{"id":6180,"date":"2012-10-10T21:43:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=6180"},"modified":"2012-10-11T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:25:49","slug":"feels-like-its-thursday-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/feels-like-its-thursday-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Feels like it’s Thursday already"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LITA Forum wrapped up on Sunday with a virtual presentation from Sarah Houghton, the librarian in black<\/a>, titled Library Future: Star Trek or Starbucks? Sarah was really good when she stuck to the Starbucks analogy – what could libraries do better if we did it more like Starbucks? – but towards the end, she started kitchen-sinking it (as Mark said); kind of throwing everything in – make hard choices, stick to our core values, benefit the many rather than the few ….<\/p>\n

We had Starbucks cookies for lunch again<\/a>, how apropos, in the Starbucks right outside the Nationwide Arena<\/a>, where the Blue Jackets (hockey team) plays – where they were playing the Grateful Dead when we walked in. Twice, once Touch of Grey<\/a> – the only Dead song that got much radio play, and the other time Scarlet Begonias<\/a> – much more obscure. And funny another connection – the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics<\/a> is by David Dodd, who was city librarian at the San Rafael PL, where Sarah is the now director – she must’ve replaced him. Yup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then we cabbed (because of Mark’s bum knee) over to the downtown Columbus Metropolitan Library, for Innovation in Libraries<\/a>, a post-conference sponsored by OCLC. Got to see the opening keynote, Phil Simon<\/a>, and a bunch of short presentations – all good stuff, although I was cynical about the project to catalog TED talks – with MARC.<\/p>\n

Retired to the brew pub with a bunch of librarians and ended up having dinner at Ted Turner’s burger joint<\/a>. Pretty good – I scraped the raw meat out of the center of my “medium to the well side” burger with my fork, and liked the skin-on fries, and cheap ($4.25) Rolling Rock. Got back to the hotel in time to watch Boardwalk Empire and Treme.<\/p>\n

Throughout the conference I kept having that feeling that there was something on my glasses – something blurry. At the brew pub on Sunday, I started seeing flashes in my peripheral vision, and then on Monday, when I took my first turn to drive, somewhere in Indiana, I had lots of floaters in my right eye. It was like my own little oil and water show. Naturally I read up on MedLine, and the floaters and flashes are symptoms of a detached retina, which could be cause by head trauma, old age, near-sighedness, and of course tumours.<\/p>\n

I decided to call the eye doc Tuesday morning, and when I said I couldn’t make the first appointment time they offered me, at 10:30, the receptionist said, “these are not symptoms that you should ignore” eeech. So I went in at 1:00 and turns out I have this –<\/p>\n

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Vitreous detachment<\/a>. The doc said my retina is beautiful, but the goo inside of my eye is collapsing and coming off the back. Normal, caused by old age & near sightedness, nothing to be done about it. She said to avoid contact sports. She made the diagnosis by dilating my eyes; she even added extra drops. So Tuesday, my first day back at work, I was there from like 8:30 to noon, and then off to the eye doc, came home all blurry at 2:00, did as much work as I could until 4:00. Then I had a haircut, co-op grocery shopping, and yoga class – all while blurry. At yoga I take off my glasses, so I didn’t notice so much. Besides groceries, I went and splurged at the cake store – $20 on rubber scrapers and fancy muffin papers. When I got home from yoga, Al was here to watch Sons of Anarchy<\/a>, and trying to make up his mind about jobs. I ate the sweet potato that I’d left in the oven for myself for dinner, in between talking to him, and trying to write up a discussion summary for my online course. At least the blurries\u00a0were pretty much worn off by then. I still flet like I deserved ice cream, so I had some with chopped up crystallized ginger – left the ice cream out to soften while I was writing the summary, and it took so long I kept thinking I should put the ice cream back – I scooped out of the middle, instead of the edges.<\/p>\n

Today, even though it’s only Wednesday, feels like Thursday already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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