Quietly, quietly I step forward.

Many things have happened in the past year.  Many distractions, many sadnesses, many adventures.  To tell them all would take a year, a year I have already spent.

Whoops.

A short history I suppose would be fair.  Since moving to Champaign, IL, I have worked:

1) At a used bookstore.
2) At a coffee shop.
3) At a book and paper conservation lab.
4) At the Residence Hall Libraries.

While I do love coffee and I do love books, new and used, those were much less enjoyable experiences than I would have ever guessed.  I wanted to do more for the bookstore, help with inventory, do major re-organizing, but alas.  They said it was too much work.  Which was precisely why I wanted to do it.  The store was in dire need of work but they simply pushed it off saying they didn't have the time.

The coffee shop, while an excellent source of free coffee also resulted in smelling like coffee all the time.  Not my favorite thing.  And wearing a headset while trying to talk to people is just plain awful.  My sympathies go out to all drive-thru workers.

Oh!   And I got a kitten now cat.  Perhaps a retrospective on him later.