In case you haven't heard yet, Jacob & I are pregnant! I'm about 7 weeks along and we're expecting our baby on November 21st - my sister's birthday. We've known since March 14th, but didn't tell our parents until this last weekend, so now we can tell everyone without worrying about them finding out! My next appointment is for the 15th of April when I'll have the first ultrasound done and we'll know for sure how far along we are and a better idea of a due date. Check out Jacob's website for a video message from us!

Some more good news is that I got my first contracted job. I'll be teaching summer school for the Wautoma School District! I get to design my own course - it's in computers, so it should be a chance to get really creative! I'll be teaching students who will be going into 1st - 5th grades! The pay is great and the experience will be wonderful!

Think about going back in time. You think you'd be so superior to these people because you have however many hundreds of years of knowledge over them. But do you? Doubtful. How does an internal combustion engine work? I don't know. How is electricity produced? I have only the vaguest notion. How does plumbing work? How is plastic made? How is sound recorded? There are a few things I could help them with, depending on how much I've memorized from my science classes.

What it comes down to is that the majority of us know very little about the technology we use in our every day lives. Yet we act as though we do, and we're ready to tell researchers what to do and how to do it. We'll fund NASA and other types of organizations/r&d as we see fit, even though we really have no idea what it is they do or how important the discoveries they make may be.

Today I had to help a guy get sound to the computer he was using in the section of the library where I work so he could watch porn videos. It made me a little uncomfortable, but as a librarian, I'm not supposed to question. Once he starts making a disturbance, which he hasn't yet, then I get to snap into action.... and call circulation (as I was told by other more experienced reference librarians)