What a Day
Jun. 24th, 2020 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyIt's now official: the Pentagon enters Phase 2 next Monday. Although organizations are being given a lot of control of how fast they bring their people back, and ours is unlikely to hurry it up. I'll know more details tomorrow. And the week hadn't been going that badly. I even managed to get my laptop to work just fine through almost all of both yesterday and today. Almost; it finally froze up twenty minutes before my work day ended today.
Except that for much of the day I was on my own computer, because the laptop was blocking the streaming for the American Library Association's virtual conference, which began today. Even on this computer there was more technical difficulties than anyone would've liked; at least one thing I would've otherwise attended I didn't get into at all, and I missed the first ten minutes of the most interesting session I watched today.
Though maybe the best thing I watched was Sophia Thakur's speech. Even if it was the exactly kind of combination of oddness and brilliance that when you're sitting alone in your bedroom in the middle of a pandemic (among other things) watching it on an embedded YouTube video, aware that other librarians from far and wide are also watching...the world actually hasn't felt all that surreal to me these past three months, maybe because I've never fully comprehended it anyway. But it did right then.
Not the only good speech given by a black woman I watched today either. ALA's executive director also have a strong one, advocating for multiple very good ideas and calling on us librarians to do our part in the fight for justice. But I don't know how much of what she calls for can happen.
Except that for much of the day I was on my own computer, because the laptop was blocking the streaming for the American Library Association's virtual conference, which began today. Even on this computer there was more technical difficulties than anyone would've liked; at least one thing I would've otherwise attended I didn't get into at all, and I missed the first ten minutes of the most interesting session I watched today.
Though maybe the best thing I watched was Sophia Thakur's speech. Even if it was the exactly kind of combination of oddness and brilliance that when you're sitting alone in your bedroom in the middle of a pandemic (among other things) watching it on an embedded YouTube video, aware that other librarians from far and wide are also watching...the world actually hasn't felt all that surreal to me these past three months, maybe because I've never fully comprehended it anyway. But it did right then.
Not the only good speech given by a black woman I watched today either. ALA's executive director also have a strong one, advocating for multiple very good ideas and calling on us librarians to do our part in the fight for justice. But I don't know how much of what she calls for can happen.
