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Karl G. Siewert, MLIS
I can't believe that this is still one of the top results for "yoyology" on google. As you can see, this blog is moribund. If you are interested in finding out more about me, try http://www.yoyology.net or my current blog.
last modified May 22, 2006 at 16:07
Well, as I think I've mentioned, regular journaling has never been my strong suit, so I haven't been posting much in here.
However, I have never been able to stop myself from reading and talking about books, so one of my other weblogs, under the name Readerman, is going like a wildfire. I post there nearly every day about a book that I have read.
I'd like to ask that you check it out. Don't stop coming here, though. Who knows when I might have a nugget of wisdom that just has to come out!
I just did something I've not done in years. I proofread a paper.
An eighth grade boy just came up to the desk with a paper he wrote about a trip to a local museum. He asked me to "correct" it for him, and I spent a few minutes marking it up with a handy red Flair and suggesting some changes to make it better.
It really felt good to do that for somebody again. The funny thing is, I had just finished doing something similar. One of the other users on Linkfilter was getting ready to send an article off to an online music magazine, and he asked for proofreaders, so I did that for him.
Funny how things come back around. I taught high school English for three years, and when I left, I thought those skills would go on the shelf, but everything useful gets used eventually.
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