In the interim since I’ve posted, I’ve met and surpassed the 21 Challenge fundraising goal, got the school library staffed for next year, organized two really awesome programs (youth-elder exchange, academic skills workshops), sorted through a MASSIVE book donation from Yellowknife (23 boxes worth!) and made some huge orders from educational publishers. So June is going to be a month of slowing down, no more staying late late late at work, and weekends are now strictly for myself. Except now I’m blogging about work. Ha. The funny thing is, I’ve spent all this time in the library but looking back, I’ve hardly done any traditional library work. It’s been mainly presentations, proposal writing, PR, lobbying, and managing a gazillion little tasks. Would have died without my links and notes on pbwiki.

I’ve also been doing all kinds of awesome non-information studies related things and to be honest, a lot of the issues I used to think about down south aren’t relevant here, so my mind really has not been analyzing and crunching through topics related to this blog. It’s difficult to keep up with the technology and news here where no one has a clue what web 2.0 is, identity management is still about word of mouth reputation, and everyone turns to the radio or gossip vine first for news. It’s been a gradual, protracted unplugging from the net and a culling of what information I want to keep intaking and what qualifies as a time suck to permanently cut out. After 5 months of detox, I’m ready to return to my old cyborg state.