art snob

I know it might be a jinx to say, but I love my practicum. The Vancouver Art Gallery library rocks.

Today I went to a volunteer party (I'm not a volunteer, but my supervisor told me to go, so I listened) and drank pomegranite juice and champagne (heavy on the champagne) for part of the afternoon and got a little tipsy for the rest of my workday. There I talked with a 70ish-year-old library volunteer about online gambling and she seemed so interested that she might look for lessons at the seniors' centre. She's awesome. She told me about a DIY project that required multiple trips to Rona (because Home Depot wouldn't cut wood they way she wanted it cut) and a trip to Dressew. And she plays tennis!

Actually, all the volunteers I've met have been fascinating. Makes me want to find time to volunteer there after I finish my required time.

One of the perks of doing a practicum at the VAG library is that I get tea for $1.19 instead of $1.36. Sweet deal. Also, it took everything in my power to not buy the peanut butter chocolate pie nor the peanut butter chocolate cake featured prominently in the cafe food case when I looked at them at 10am. I should have gone back to have it for lunch.

Instead, I had a hot dog with saurkraut at the street vendor outside HMV after buying a cd with the gift card my friends gave me for Christmas. (I also have an IKEA one that I'm dying to use, but haven't been to IKEA since forever.) Tomorrow we go to Cafe Artigiano for coffee and I'm considering how dangerous it would be to have a mocha there; the last one I had had two shots of espresso with a small plop of hot cocoa. Drunk one day, cranked up on too much caffeine another... What an impression I'll leave them with.

My supervisor suggested today that it probably wouldn't be too hard to get a job in New York at an art library or a costume-related library with my background. She is also pretty connected and figured a lot of New York museums/libraries are looking for random Canadians willing to move to New York. Seriously, it's tempting. Dream job: working in the library at the Costume Institute at the Met. Sigh. I used to think about moving to Chicago, but New York... That's a whole other thing. I can't remember why she told me to move to New York, but it wasn't something I suggested.

Short of being trapped in the catacombs, I can't imagine what could suck about working in the library.

Currently listening :
Peeping Tom
By Peeping Tom
Release date: 30 May, 2006