- Obviate
- Networking
- Much more intimate contact with students and faculty. Being on the "tenure track".
- Remarkably kind people-my colleagues in the College and co-workers
in the library are remarkably ethical and good people.
Eight coffeeshops within walking distance (there were only 5 when I interviewed!).
- Not really.
- Teaching. Having those I am teaching "get it".
- Rude behavior. The more "seasoned" I become, the more I realize that rudeness is a waste of time. (I wasted quite a bit of time in my earlier days!!)
- I could go on and on about my wonderful children and spouse, but I'll spare you!
- Cooking. As of very recently, exercising (necessary as a result that cooking hobby). Traveling. Seeing foreign films. Anything to do with Brazil.
- Water flowing down a mountain stream; a barista saying "Your latte is ready" ; the little snap a fine jewelry box makes when you open it (especially if it is new…); silence; samba music; my children's voices.
- Whining children.
- Chef. Queen.
- Upholstery.
- The new Pulitzer Prize winner The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
& Clay.
The Brazilian film "Central Station".
- This isn't original, but to those who know her it will make sense. One of Patty Davies' (of OHSU Library) cats.
- "You get a 'do over'"!
- Straight forward. Okay, so that's two words!
Enthusiasm. Passionate.
- Policy! Procedures! Rules, rules, rules!
- I've been on this job so long...over 20 years...gosh I don't
know. I have more autonomy which suits me well.
- My work environment is very restrained. The amazing thing
about my work environment is they let me work there. :-)
- Yes! I play with computers and my PDA at home, and darned
if that hasn't turned out to be helpful in my work! :-)
- Learning, learning, learning!!
- Being a team member...knowing that what I do is an important part of the process...helping other people succeed
- Being a team member...knowing that what I do is an important part of the process...helping other people succeed
- Phoniness.
- I am very proud of my daughters Becky and Jenna, who are 20 and 23 years old now and ever amaze me as they claim their adulthood. They are awesome, bright, and compassionate young women.
- Cooking is my favorite activity and I'm seriously "addicted" to FoodTV.
- The sounds of birds on a warm spring morning.
- Snow mobiles when I'm cross country skiing through a quiet winter scene, or motor boats when I'm kayaking.
- Counselor. I volunteered as a peer counselor for the Portland Women's Crisis Line and really loved the trust that the women who called in placed in me.
- Any profession that exploits others or harms them.
- The last movie I saw was Monster Ball. I would recommend it. The sex scenes were a little overly intense, but it was a sweet movie otherwise. I read very little fiction. As usual I'm reading 5 books at once and some of them I might actually finish! Two books I've read that I would recommend are Angela's Ashes and Tuesdays with Morrie. I did finish these books!! :-) The last fiction book I finished that I would recommend is Banana Rose by Natalie Goldberg.
- I watch too many animal specials on TV to be able to pick
an animal. They
have this dreadful habit of eating each other!
- "You lived an honest and compassionate life."
1. What is your favorite word?
- Conundrum. I love the way it sounds and it's meaning
- Any noun that's been made into a verb when there's a perfectly acceptable verb to use.
- I've worked here so long, it's hard to remember, but what I miss most is seeing all those other books, that I might actually read.
- Not after 20 years, although every day it seems that a totally new question comes up.
- I like to read, and anything I read can always come in handy.
- People who get excited about
new ideas and don't automatically dismiss them.
- Housework.
- I have a great husband who I've been married to for almost 25 years and a wonderful son who is a high school senior, as well as our cat, Peanut. I also have 5 sisters and 6 brothers (and no, it really isn't cheaper by the dozen).
- I don't think I could survive without reading, but I also enjoy traveling (although I do very little of it these days), hiking, and music.
- One of my favorite sounds is my son playing his saxophones. He won the district title for alto and tenor sax and will be going to state at the end of April. Our neighbors all claim to love hearing him play as well.
- The alarm in the morning.
- Urban planning has always seemed interesting to me.
- Finance - it would be like Enron all over again
- I just finished "The Grand Complication" by Allen Kurzweil. The main character is a librarian and it's a combination mystery and farce. The pictures he draws of libraries and librarians are at times uncomfortably familiar and at other times very funny. One reviewer said that after reading this book, his bet is that the next action figure will be a librarian.
- An eagle, because I would love to soar in the sky.
- I have a question…
- Warm or cavort (depending on my mood)
- Paradigm. Also hate the phrase "Think outside the box."
- Since it is a smaller hospital, I know most of the people on a first-name basis.
- How much the library is used and valued!
- Nope
- Learning anything new . . . great out-of-doors . . . opera
- Not learning anything new . . . rude people . . . grocery shopping
- Husband, girls, cats - I enjoy them all!
Gardening, hiking, camping, kayaking
- The winter wren's song
- Boom boxes in cars
- To be a paid extra at the Portland Opera (I don't think they're paid. . . . Oh, well. . . .)
- Bond trader or stockbroker (I'd be lousy)
- In the midst of watching Masterpiece Theater's production of Anthony Trollope's "The Way We Live Now." Recommend highly. Also just watched Tony Richardson's "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." Excellent. Reading anything I can get my hands on in popular press about the Middle East.
- An opera star (I know it's not an animal, but I don't want to be an animal. I want to be an opera star!)
- All earthly pleasures await you here. . . .