Counting. Down. The. Days.

No, no, not till my wedding. School is almost out classmates, and while it has been a (mostly) wonderful and fantastic journey ... I am tired. I want to read a book because I want to read a book. I don't want to look at a journal article for at least one month, and I am determined to lose a few brain cells in catching up on my DVR at the end of next week. I feel like there is so much fresh information in my mind, every time I try to talk about a topic, all sorts of things are getting jumbled in as well. My poor professors trying to make sense out of my papers. Lucky for me, I have four classes this semester that all tie in together nicely, so hopefully I don't sound like a raving lunatic too badly.

Gaming in libraries. I will admit, before starting this career path, I could have cared less about video games. My fiance is that crazy guy thats addicted to COD (if you don't know what that is, you don't have a guy in your house that plays video games and I don't feel like it matters what it's called) and stays up playing online with people from all over the world. They talk crazy smack to each other, make fun of each other's friends, mothers and other players, and they all love it.

I sat down a few weeks ago after reading "Everything Bad is Good For You" and explained to my fiance why his video game addiction was good for him. All of a sudden, this librarian thing I had been explaining to him for the last two years seemed like a much cooler profession. He still teases me good-naturedly, but he is thrilled I understand the addiction behind the game, even the "educational" values that he couldn't quite vocalize but sternly believed he was getting. I have even joined in some of the games! I am a much better shot in real life, and thank goodness because if I shot a gun like I do in video games, people would be in trouble!

I think many times ignorance comes from not understanding, or not taking the time to research something (even on a basic level) and not allowing video games in the library is the easy thing to do. It's easy to say no. It's not easy to get the equipment donated, get approval from the board, and convince parents and fuddy-duddy patrons that its okay to let teenagers play video games in the library.

I started to watch the video on Second Life, and this must come from a lack of understanding on my part because I don't get it. Maybe that's because I don't have time to be involved in something like that right now, but I couldn't wrap my head around all the work involved in setting up that sort of system. I know it is an outlet for some people, and we all like different things, I'm just saying that isn't for me. There is a kind of redundancy to it that I can't grasp. I could get used to having my office outside under the tree. Yessirree.