baroqueMorales

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans..." my mother The content of this blog is intended to reflect that perpetual internal to do list that organizes that which is inspirational: reflections on books read trials and tribulations of the job hunt summaries of online seminars development and description of professional interests reflection on association conference attendance an opportunity to practice technical and creative writing The blog is intended to combat the persistent encroaching despair of the unemployed with a tendency to sleep more than absolutely needed, watch endless reality shows, political action campaign advertising, recorded media, and domestics: laundry, chores, dinner, dishes, cleaning and organizing...

I was lucky enough to be able to attend Infocamp Seattle October 2nd and 3rd 2010 on a crisp fall day at Seattle University  In case you are unfamiliar, Infocamp in billed as a unique "unconference" experience where the attendees are also the participants.  Sessions led by subject matter experts in a various information related fields are initiated on-site and participants sign up for the sessions on an ad-hoc or as available basis.  This is a great opportunity to get face time with leaders in the library and information science disciplines: user experience, information design, content strategy, librarianship, marketing, etc  A wiki for this years Infocamp is available here . I attend Infocamp as a thought exercise, something to challenge myself, to learn about new sponsors interested in grads from our field, to collect technologies, people and information which I will document here for future investigation.  My absolute favorite session called "Get your ass a job!&q

I recently decided to resurrect this site after letting it lie dormant for 3 years! rather than start from scratch because on review, I found inspiration within. I was pleased to note some developmental changes in the Blogger platform and so I just quickly, restructured and redesigned my blog, and dusted off some old posts. I decided to start writing, because I need a platform of expression..one that should be relatively anonymous because at this time, I have no audience that cares about my thoughts. I find myself staying up late at night, thinking about things I should either be doing, developing, documenting or learning about, and I decided a blog would be a good place to consolidate some of these potential projects. At the time that I started this blog, I had just decided to apply for grad school and was waiting my acceptance letter. I started the MLIS program at the University of Washington in late 2006, which I worked on while working full time as an academic medical progr

Audience: this note is in draft form and will continue to be worked on as I refine my thinking on this topic. I've tagged you in this note because each of you are unique and excel in very specific ways.   I'd love to hear your thoughts on developing intrinsic motivation and what deserves to be a labor of love. Being currently unemployed from structured employment for the first time in many years has given me pause to think about the source of motivation.  I'm in the search for that "dream job" ...the job you get after putting in all the hard work, doing the training, getting the degree, going to networking events, taking little side jobs, analyzing job requirements, filling in gaps in one's resume, attending job-related seminars, doing more research on companies, setting up job alerts in search aggregators, tapping networks, going to informational interviews and writing and thinking more about what one really wants out of life anyways... or may