Librarianship is so exciting!

Ellie Collier was such a great person to have speak to us. My little sister always comes to me for advice over our parents because she knows I was just there a few years before her- I just struggled with decisions like what to do after college, what to do with creepy boyfriends that you can't seem to shake, and what it's like to be a independent twenty-something in 2007. Ellie felt like that older sister to me. She just finished library school at UT. It took her a little while to find a great job. She wanted to stay in Austin. That's just like me and my classmates. Because of this, I felt I could really take her advice to heart. I wrote down a bunch of ideas, even though she so sweetly linked us to all of them. I was just that excited.

Ellie gets to incorporate what she likes best about being a librarian into her daily life at work. That is so important, but hadn't really been clear to me before. She gets to read blogs and teach people about Google Gadgets. I love reading blogs and teaching people about the latest and greatest web tricks! I want a job where I get to give presentations to my audience, which happens to be teens. It's okay that I want to book talk to them about 14 year old protagonists- in fact, it's great! I should be excited to show them swaptree.com and yelp.com, because Ellie gets excited to show her fellow staff members about customized search engines. I'm doing the same things, but my audience is a little different. The whole idea of this got me really excited, and I loved running parallel lines between Ellie's life and mine, and seeing that she was so happy and satisfied made me really happy and satisfied. Hooray for Ellie Collier! She got me so motivated and proud!

Also, I added a Google Gadget she showed us to my Google iHome. It's flickr's gadget where it shows you the last 10 photos uploaded by your friends. Loving it!