I must post the facts on the first bout of the 2007 season. That way, I will have a post to link to for my 2007 season page that will eventually resemble my 2006 season page.

If you check the HRD website, you will notice that Catazon is not listed on either of the veteran teams. Don’t fret. Well, just a tad, because I won’t be there at all due to my rodeo commitments. Just wait till April when you get to watch me take on the refs as acting captain of the Brawlers.

If you don’t hear from me for a while, please don’t worry.  Rodeo starts tonight!  I’m already off to a good start, kicking my own butt at the cookoff on Saturday (not necessarily news to anyone since even my neighbors have heard about it already) then staying out way past my bedtime on Sunday to see the Nacogdoches Rollergirls first bout this year.  My friend, Madame Furie, has an excellent synopsis of Sunday evening on her blog.

Anyway, George will keep me out late tonight, then tomorrow I have travel team tryouts till 10:30pm, Brawler practice on Thursday night, and maybe I’ll get to sit down for 45 minutes and watch this week’s episode of Amazing Race on Friday afternoon before I head up to the rodeo again.  Wheeeee!  I’ll see you in April.

I work in a “university” that as of sometime this afternoon implemented filtering software on all the computers in the building.  How’s that for access to information?  I will not spit, I will not curse, I will not scream at the top of my lungs, or any of those other things you tend to do when your blood starts to boil.

So far, flickr is blocked but not myspace.  What kind of idiots are running this place?

Additional comments from myspace

Where the fuck is my resume again? And I hope you idiots are watching what I’m doing right now and report me so I can finally be rid of this cesspool of ignorance!

It’s a proven fact that providing the appropriate services in a library depends on how well you know your library users. Every day I struggle with relating to developmental students while maintaining a high level of customer service. Librarians who have no qualms with dropping the f-bomb…now they got it all figured out!

Sometimes I wish that my experiences in roller derby were more like my husband’s experiences at the deer lease. If one of the guys isn’t pulling his own weight, showing up for work weekends and whatnot, then they get cussed for being the low-down, dirty SOBs that they are in that instance, and everyone moves on. No drama allowed.

Instead, I get to deal with emergency meetings where girls wear their feelings on their sleeves and you can see on everyone’s face how they would rather be anywhere but here. It doesn’t end when the bitch-fest is over either. Some girls will hold grudges from that meeting until the day they die. Drama will prevail!

The Brawlers lived through an intervention last night. As their new co-captain, I must now take some sort of responsibility to ensure that we never have to suffer through one again.

This morning, in between two students asking me why their laptops won’t print, I stumbled upon several posts questioning whether librarians should be solving patrons’ computer problems. Of course, these librarians are tech-savvy enough to agree that while we didn’t get an MLS to do that, we should attempt to assist users to the best of our ability. However, there are librarians out there that don’t have the tech skills necessary to troubleshoot common problems, and in my case, there are some IT departments out there that don’t share their knowledge.

The small proprietary university at which I work gives student satisfaction surveys on a regular basis, and the library continually ranks near the top, if not at the top, of the student satisfaction scale. The IT department is often at the bottom. This may be due to the fact that they do things like change IP addresses on printers without any notice beforehand and any instructions for students afterwards, delete the library’s access to the web server on which its catalog is housed and cannot figure out how to restore access, and take computers that display the BSOD into the IT Black Hole of No Return. Seriously, the library let IT have two computers that froze up over a year ago, and IT acts like they have no idea what I’m talking about!

In light of my experiences over the past year, librarians providing tech support is not even an issue. I try to learn more about IT everyday…networking, security, you name it. I do whatever I can whenever the students ask, because if I send the students up to the people that are “trained” to help, who knows what they might get? Plus, I keep getting the high satisfaction scores and might even help IT get higher scores if nobody has to deal with them.