This spring and summer I will be embarking on an adventure which will henceforth be known as the "Parade of Awesome." It is a parade of exciting personal ventures (many of which are library related and will be blogged about, but some that will not) that will take me around the country and across the globe.Just what might such a "Parade of Awesome" include? I'm glad you asked. In date order, I bring you the the calendar of events...
April 4-5: Conference for my summer position as Director of Workshops and Resources (one of the Operations Director roles) at Teach For America's Chicago Institute (actual conference is in Houston, TX)
April 5-11: Maxing and relaxing with my family-in-law on Hilton Head Island, SC
April 13: Day of shadowing at the middle school where I will work next year in Alexandria, VA
April 16-17: Koha (open source library software) Conference in Plano, TX
April 24-26: Conference for my summer position as Director of Workshops and Resources at Teach For America's Chicago Institute in Chicago, IL
April 27-29: NJLA Conference in Long Branch, NJ (I'm totally pumped to be attending both the pre-conference on Tween Services and GSBA Luncheon with John Green; my excitement for all of the terrific NJLA YA Section programs is a given)
May 3: Half-Marathon in Long Branch, NJ (goal is sub 2 hours)
May 4-18: Belated HONEYMOON in Italy!
May 19: Rutgers SCILS Convocation (though perhaps by then it'll be the SCI Convocation)
May 20-25: Wedding and festivities for friends in Denver, Co
May 29: BookExpo America in New York, NY (I can feel the Catching Fire ARC in my hands now!)
June 5: Little brother's Rock-n-Roll wedding at the Madison Hotel (pretty!)
June 9-July 29: Rockin' out in the resource room with leveled readers, manipulatives, teaching guides and new teachers at Teach For America's Chicago Institute at our host university, Illinois Institute of Technology. (the photo is of one of last summer's resource rooms)
And then, in August, I'll probably do a few little things, like buy a house and move to Virginia.
Let the parade begin!
