But every superhero has their kryptonite, and the other day I ran into mine.

But every superhero overcomes their kryptonite – and this is how I overcame mine:

Sometimes it’s best to channel your angry into creativity.

I’d already posted this to twitter – but I thought I’d give the fam a taste of what I sometimes encounter in my daily life.

1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read the player’s blog.
4. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

What were you doing five years ago?
I was getting ready to make my move from Atlanta, Georgia to Michigan to begin my studies at the Library and Information Science Program at Wayne State University

What are five things on your to-do list for today (not in any particular order)?
1. Work
2. Get Five Things out of the way
3. Read Sweethearts
4. Begin my Library Arsenal series
5. Put gas in the car.

What are five snacks you enjoy?
1. Nachos
2. Doritos
3. Chips
4. Pistachios
5. Quesadilla

What five things would you do if you were a billionaire?
1. Retire
2. Buy a house
3. Disappear
4. Buy a baseball team
5. Hide it

What are five of your bad habits?
1. Chewing fingernails
2. Falling for the wrong gal
3. Drubken emails
4. Doing anything but reading
5. Something else that I won’t say cause it’s a family blog

What are five places where you have lived?
1. Dover, New Hampshire
2. Canton, Michigan
3. Snellville, Atlanta, Tucker Georgia
4. Monterrey, Mexico
5. Farmington Hills, Michigan

What are five jobs you’ve had?
1. Deli-boy
2. Paper boy
3. Paraprofessional at Farmington Community Library
4. Librarian at Farmington Community Library
5. Web editor – freelance

I now tag:
I don’t have any Internet buddies that would do this – except maybe oomny, but she’s probably already done it.

I’m thinking of mainly not calling Dan – or Daaaaaaaaaaan – as he called me back in November. It’s a call I’ve been meaning to return – but just haven’t figured out when it won’t be awkward to make that call.

I’ve been thinking of Ms. Reed – my mom away from mom – who has to deal with heaps upon heaps – and she should know that I love her – but I suck at getting things done.

I’ve been thinking about all my friends that I haven’t been in touch with lately – and who I would love to see more often.

I’ve been thinking about people I shouldn’t be – and even though they despise me – I wish them well.

And that’s probably why I got bored and took the opportunity of a sudden squall to make this video.

I miss you all.


Miss Warren, and all of you from kevinyezbick on Vimeo.


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I’ve helped to keep score at Battle of the Books the past two years. The competition is fierce and the air is electric. This is the reaction after one of the questions — they reacted this way each time.

What does a week away mean? It means getting a week behind.

Take a week to look through these, while listening to the soundtrack @ http://kevinyezbick.muxtape.com/:

My interest in Guys Read stems mainly from being a guybrarian. Our library has already initiated the program, but I was looking to gain a deeper understanding of the goals and issues that make-up the movement. As a member of the Adult Reference staff, I was a bit concerned about the relevance of my presence – especially considering our already sailing efforts. But I do serve the young adult population and I am the only guybrarian between the two branches – so I am reconciling my guilt and recognizing the generosity of my library in allowing me to attend. I’m leaving the preconference with fresh knowledge looking to be turned to wisdom. I will share what information I can here –

These are admittedly – very – very shorthand notes and observations. The preconference packet contained numerous handouts – which probably dissuaded me from taking stellar notes. Basically I’m just gonna capture the salient points from the day — those that stuck with me – because I’m a selfish prig. Perhaps not the best use of the word prig – but its use is what mattered to me in this moment. I’ll make separate posts for the different panels at some point later today – but for now just an incredibly brief mention of the keynote:

Jon Scieszka, children’s author and founder of Guys Read opened with some lighthearted but pointed commentary detailing the need for the program, spotted with points that would be reiterated throughout the day. Goals were identified – how to pitch it to your library, and how to get the funding. One benefit of libraries getting involved with the Guys Read program is that we aren’t tied down by curriculum or parenting – we are free to be the other – allowing the guys to read whatever they like, be it novels, graphic novels, magazines, and video game narratives. It’s the reading that’s important.

Brevity.

There’s also this list of 150 things to do while in Minneapolis, divided by season. While officially we’ve made our way into Spring, many of the posts to Twitter echo the same sentiment — something along the lines of: “looking forward to such and such at PLA, not looking forward to the cold.” The weather will likely inihibit some of the extracurricular activities for the week — but the forecast really isn’t all that much different than what we’ve got here in Michigan – highs in the 40s with some rain towards the end of the week.

I’m going through the twitter search engines looking for other people posting about PLA. Twitter’s been around for a while and there’s been clamoring for twitter groups — and it’s large events like these that would benefit the most from that feature.

This will be my first national conference of any sort – so I’m looking forward to the experience – and will likely be starstruck by all the nifty librarians I’ve been following for some time on the Internetz. I printed out the Tips for Conference Bloggers [pdf] sometime ago – but never really got around to reading it. I’ll likely just post my notes and have a lot of twitter action. Maybe this will actually be the week I iron out some of the transitional miscues from moving to movabletype 4 – like that archives link on the bottom of this page that takes you nowhere.

Time to get a move on…see you in Minneapolis.

Photogamer – Green, originally uploaded by Kevin Yezbick.

This one swirls.

Just figured I needed to get something up on the front page.