Librarian's Nite Out

Went to see No Age. I was watching the kids moshing- yes, they were actually moshing, or slam dancing, and yes, they actually stage dived- and I thought- ah, I remember when that quickly became very uncool to do. I was so happy when that happened because in the '90s for a while it was actually quite dangerous to go to a rock concert. I mean, they were so idiotic they actually moshed to Juliana Hatfield. I don't remember why I was even at a Juliana Hatfield concert, but I remember that it was painful. So, I guess with bands like No Age, the punk attitude is back. I like jumping up and down and bobbing my head at a show, but I like to do it in my private little circle of space. I don't enjoy people shoving me. Luckily we were up in the balcony.

Actually, you can see J. in the very front of the balcony in the 2nd photo here from the show. He's wearing the white button down shirt. Because he came from work.

It was a high energy show. I enjoyed it, and I'm glad No Age is coming back in July for a free Southstreet Seaport show.

Here are some shows I hope to be enjoying this summer besides the Feelies show at Maxwell's and the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago.

May 30th WIRE

July 4th Sonic Youth Feelies

July 11th No Age
South Street Seaport

There are also probably some McCarren pool shows I'll go to. Especially since I don't plan to work from July to September. I will be taking classes 4 days a week though, so I'm not going to be completely living the high life of writing and rocking.

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I just hope I can get a library job for next year. It's such a drag that I have to do two semesters of student teaching even though I have 4 years of teaching experience and am now working as a librarian in a school. State requirements can be a real pain in the ass, but I am almost done. I passed my certification test so now I just have to finish my coursework and student teaching. Oh, and that lousy math class! Did I mention that I got a scholarship for one of my student teaching classes? Apparently I am a real trailblazer in the library media specialist track at my school. I looked at all the scholarships available, hell bent on winning one, and I picked the only one that applied to what I study. It was for a practicum but since I have to student teach I can't do an internship or research. So I applied anyway and I argued that it wasn't fair not to offer LMS track students any scholarship opportunities. I also argued that my research would be developing an information literacy curriculum, which I'd have to do anyway. Well, even though they initially lost my application, they decided to award me the scholarship. The director of the LMS program told me that I set a precedent for all of the other LMS students, so she's telling everyone that I got the scholarship, and she's encouraging others to apply next year. Too bad I can only apply for school scholarships once.