Ms. B's enthralling first blog post

I suppose using Facebook has left me with the urge to write about myself in the third person, hence the blog post title up there. The thing about writing about yourself in third person, though, is that it's really only fun to the writer and really very irritating to the reader -- so I'll try to limit myself to third person subject headings only.

Anyways.

So. First post. First post on my new blog. Not my first blog, actually, as I took over the MPL Teen Summer Reading Book Review blog when I became Teen Librarian here, but that's definitely more of a group effort, after all. (You can check out all the teen reviews from the last several years here.) And speaking of groups -- since I'm sure some of my teens will eventually find this, linked as it is through my username to the summer reading blog, I will add here how awesome and wonderful all my teens are, and how each and every one of them are my favorite, the ones who may actually be reading this even moreso.

On a slightly more serious note -- all my regulars really are a lot of fun, and make my job worthwhile. Fantastic group of teens that come into this library; we're lucky. :)

As for 23 Things, I've found it interesting so far (the How-Do-You-Learn quiz really fascinated me, for some reason, possibly because I have such myriad and mostly-fond memories of my college days). We all (and by "we all" I don't mean "we the people taking this course," really; I think I mean "we Americans") need to spend more time learning how to adapt and benefit from change, instead of always going into it kicking and screaming, and since that seems to be a big aim of this course, I'm all for it. And I don't feel bad about making these sweeping generalizations and judgment calls about everyone else, because it's a sweeping generalization and judgment call that definitely applies to me, too.

Although the irony is that, deep down (DEEP deep down), I think we really do like change. Or need it, anyways, which eventually works out to be the same thing if we're trying hard enough. I had a professor who used to say, "We want things to stay the same, but we really really don't."

It's true, so, all things said, I'm looking forward to the rest of this course. Allons-y, then!