Last week was Thanksgiving. It marks a milestone in my life different from the traditional giving thanks and turkey dinner. On the Monday after Thanksgiving in 1967, I began my first full-time library job. It was at the UMass/Amherst library - then Goodell - typing the headings on the tops of catalog cards and then filing them into the card catalog. I'm so glad that those labor-intensive cards are gone.
Who would have thought that 48 years later I'd still be "wearing the sensible shoes" as they sometimes say on the AUTOCAT email list.
As I consider retirement, perhaps I should keep this date in mind. In two years it will be an even 50. Now that's something to celebrate.
On the MassCat front, I've finally cracked the letter "F" in my alphabetical list of possible duplicates. I've been working on F for a couple of weeks now. To put this in perspective, I briefly blogged about arriving at "E" in early May and "D" in June of 2014. Even though everything is automated, it's still pretty labor-intensive.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Anniversaries
Today - June 17 - marks 3 anniversaries for MC and me.
Twenty-five years ago today, we first met at a little Italian restaurant in No. Amherst. We liked each other well enough that, after dinner, we went to a swing dance. He had been planning to go anyway, but I had the option of bowing out if I wanted to. I didn't.
Two years later we decided to move in together. Actually, the story is a little more complicated, but that's the condensed version. In order to keep things simple and not have to remember too many different dates, we made it official on June 17.
Every year on June 17, we go out to dinner and renew our living together arrangement for one more year. One year at a time seems to take away most of the pressure.
Over the years as June 17 approached, we discussed getting married. Of course, we'd have to do it on June 17. Never mind that we had bought property together and built a house together, that our lives were inextricably intertwined, we still renewed the arrangement annually.
And then three years ago, on our 20th living-together anniversary, we did get married. To us, however, marriage was a formality, legalizing something we had been living for a very long time. After the brief but sweet ceremony, we went out to dinner and agreed to live together for one more year.
Tonight, we will go to dinner and renew for yet another year.
What can I say? It works.
Twenty-five years ago today, we first met at a little Italian restaurant in No. Amherst. We liked each other well enough that, after dinner, we went to a swing dance. He had been planning to go anyway, but I had the option of bowing out if I wanted to. I didn't.
Two years later we decided to move in together. Actually, the story is a little more complicated, but that's the condensed version. In order to keep things simple and not have to remember too many different dates, we made it official on June 17.
Every year on June 17, we go out to dinner and renew our living together arrangement for one more year. One year at a time seems to take away most of the pressure.
Over the years as June 17 approached, we discussed getting married. Of course, we'd have to do it on June 17. Never mind that we had bought property together and built a house together, that our lives were inextricably intertwined, we still renewed the arrangement annually.
And then three years ago, on our 20th living-together anniversary, we did get married. To us, however, marriage was a formality, legalizing something we had been living for a very long time. After the brief but sweet ceremony, we went out to dinner and agreed to live together for one more year.
Tonight, we will go to dinner and renew for yet another year.
What can I say? It works.
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