She Blinded Me With Library Science

Essays = nonfiction

Ummmm, today’s Strands may not be a good idea if this weekend’s tragedy already has you down. #nyt #nytgames #strands

Haven’t set foot there since the end of January. Turns out I can shop other places.

You’re welcome.

I had gestational diabetes with both pregnancies and my body has never been the same. No one else in my family has it or has had it.

Absolutely!

It’s not your fault. I know the feeling and it’s why very few people I know know that I have it.

Correlation is not causation, but yeah, seems it had to have contributed.

People often think of the Catholic Church as being out of touch, but very few things are more relatable than losing the will to live after interacting with JD Vance.

It’s different?

It's not discussed in all the stories. But a key feature of the revocation of student visas is that there's no notification. This has forced universities to do regular online reviews of current visas to see which have disappeared since the previous query. The lack of notification is by design.

Drone photo taken of the crowd at the Connecticut state Capitol on April 5th.

A person in a yellow rain poncho holding a sign reading Morons Are Governing America.

Crowd scene at the Hartford, Connecticut protest, featuring a wordless sign with penguins on it.

My sign for today’s protest. It reads Hands off libraries.

Joined the big crowd at the Hands Off! protest in Hartford, CT today.

A parody of the Gadsden flag, a drawing of a penguin on a yellow background with the words “Don’t Tread on Me.”

Currently obsessed with penguin memes. 🐧

🤪🤣😂

Ahhh, we’re moving to a different vendor because I don’t play.

My husband has several email doppelgängers as does a close friend and it’s always amazing to me how these other people just don’t seem to care? Like, other people are receiving reasonably important emails that belong to you and you aren’t doing anything about it?

(Word is that the CSL employees normally paid through IMLS grants are being covered through funds that the State taps when there are government shutdowns.)

Otherwise there’s a page listing what LSTA covers and that’s what we’ve got.

libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/dld/Federal-...

with state and federal offices to respond to this situation, and we continue normal operations. We do not have definitive answers for you yet, but we will keep you apprised as this continues to unfold.

Project grant through the National Endowment for the Humanities has also been terminated.

We do not yet know why our three states were singled out for this decision, but our colleagues across the country are sharing in our concerns and sending their good wishes.

CSL continues to work closely

Very limited here in CT.
Yesterday, in an email to a statewide listserv:
Good afternoon, everyone,

Connecticut, Washington, and California were notified last night that our LSTA/Grants to States awards are being terminated, effective April 1, 2025. CSL was also notified that our National

Same.

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

“Fucking Circus” 🤡 is going to be a meme.

#ThePitt

They’re sooooo good!

Ohhhhh, that would be soooooo bad.

😱🤣🤡

“Unless they’re a mime.”

It’s always a shell game.

I noticed that too, but it makes sense. We save it for family viewing and there’s so much basketball to watch too!

What an amazing hour of television. #thePitt

Done!