Next time you pretend to be me, ponder the possibility of opening a new & used, mostly English-language bookstore in Tallinn (and maybe one in Riga). I’m wondering if pretend Rachel has more sense.

Right now, I’m pretending I’m Rachel and wondering what the hell I’m doing in Estonia…

It is hard to start something, but I also recall the sense that “no one is reading this” was liberating. I could write what I was interested in, and try and build up some halfway interesting stuff so by the time someone found the blog, there’d be some archives to read.

Then drop some interesting comments like this on more established blogs and people will click through to see just who you are.

I read lots of blogs and appreciate all the thought and effort that goes into them, but my limited attempts at blogging always felt like just standing in the crowd — not at a punk rock show, but at like a Journey or Night Ranger concert (I’ll leave it to someone else to determine which crappy 70′s band goes with which library software company). Yes, Journey sucks, and they deserve to get mocked, but at some point you gotta jump on stage yourself and try to create something new, no matter how dorky you look, no matter whether there are only 3 people in the audience.

I like it.

And now I have this idea buzzing ’round my head of rewriting the Sex Pistol’s “EMI” to be a rant against sucky ILS/OPACs. Call the song “III.”

And then he did his collection development presentation on comic books. Way cooler than the rest of ours, let me tell you. I did something lame on Irish short fiction (my study area), which just seemed so very librarian-ish after Josh’s presentation.

Which is to say “oops.” And “thanks.” And “fixed.”