Someone posted to a CS newsgroup about job openings at the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory. “Linux System Administrators and Librarians Wanted” I might have used two different job ads for those two roles. Standard Linux want-ad stuff (NIS, NFS, cluster skills, etc.) The librarian “should have good communication skills, must be generally e-friendly.”

(At this point I would insert some joke about the perception of what librarians do, and the skill sets required (”You need a master’s degree to be a librarian?”) and how communication skills probably shouldn’t be the core part of your job, unless you’re a TV anchor. However, that kind of cynicism wouldn’t be e-friendly. And the joke wouldn’t be funny.)

Also, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that a group that works with genetics runs Gentoo. Of course *they* would want to compile all of their applications from the source.

I went to BW3 with MC and Stuck2 and Chuck Chuck yesterday for the Illini game, and all day it’s felt like a Wednesday. That’s what I get for going to restaurants when it’s not Tuesday.

I had an alarm clock snafu this morning (when I woke up, it said 6:45am. Too bad it was really 8:55am.) Those kind of things also throw my day for a whack.

I had my first class today. More about that later.

I waited for the bus (since it’s 25 degrees outside and I’m still a little spoiled from the southern california sun,) on the way back from class and, I kid you not, like eight busses dropped by the library/wright pickup spot that didn’t go where I wanted. Maybe it was a 5pm confluence of non-campus busses, but that seems weird to me. Gold, brown, lavendar, silver, green…. And there’s like four or five different bus routes that go back up to north campus. I just hit all the *other* ones before I finally found a 6pack to take me north. That’s weird timing.

This was also the first grad class that I didn’t drink coffee during. Maybe it was the 3:30 start, or the assy Armory classroom (and no convenient coffee shop nearby.) In all of my LIS classes, in all of the courses, in all of the semesters, I can’t think of more than a time or two (including today,) where I didn’t have coffee. Today is weird.

I’ve been thinking about twittering/micro-blogging, because long blog posts are hard and usually I have small comments like this that don’t fit together anyway. If you follow my away messages and facebook status, you get more of a glimpse into my life than the blog, and that doesn’t seem right.

I got to use the “we have the same last name, just spelled differently” quip as my introduction in class today. That one went over pretty well. I hadn’t used it in that context before. Wednesday, I’m saving a thought about fabric softener as my ‘remember me’ item.