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23/1/13 17:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyLibrarianship is a pretty good fit for someone who has dabbled in eight different crafts, five different language, nineteen different hobbies, etc. The good thing and the problem is that you can justify just about anything you want to do because it will make you a better librarian when actually, it is unlikely to serve to advance your career in any way (not that I'm trying to advance my career in any way.)
Today I was doing my knitting program and one of the kids complimented my knitting-teaching skills, to which I immediately thought, No, Elizabeth Zimmerman is a good knitting teacher. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is a good knitting teacher. I'm just this dork who can't even figure out where you're supposed to put your hands for Norwegian Long-Tail Cast-On.* You know, come to think of it, I haven't been to Sock Summit or one of those high-profile knitting retreats, and everything I know about knitting comes from my mom, my grandmother, books, or YouTube, so I don't know that much about what good knitting teaching looks like. So, if I WENT to one of those high-profile knitting retreats, it would make me a BETTER LIBRARIAN.
Hahahah. (I also think that learning Chinese would make me a BETTER LIBRARIAN, but I would be a professional polyglot if I could...)
*I do not normally teach people Norwegian Long-Tail Cast-On! I usually teach beginners just the knitted cast-on, because that's so close to what you do when you're knitting anyway, and it gives you a pretty good edge. Norwegian is my other go-to cast-on, and one of the kids saw me using it and wanted to know how it worked...
Today I was doing my knitting program and one of the kids complimented my knitting-teaching skills, to which I immediately thought, No, Elizabeth Zimmerman is a good knitting teacher. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is a good knitting teacher. I'm just this dork who can't even figure out where you're supposed to put your hands for Norwegian Long-Tail Cast-On.* You know, come to think of it, I haven't been to Sock Summit or one of those high-profile knitting retreats, and everything I know about knitting comes from my mom, my grandmother, books, or YouTube, so I don't know that much about what good knitting teaching looks like. So, if I WENT to one of those high-profile knitting retreats, it would make me a BETTER LIBRARIAN.
Hahahah. (I also think that learning Chinese would make me a BETTER LIBRARIAN, but I would be a professional polyglot if I could...)
*I do not normally teach people Norwegian Long-Tail Cast-On! I usually teach beginners just the knitted cast-on, because that's so close to what you do when you're knitting anyway, and it gives you a pretty good edge. Norwegian is my other go-to cast-on, and one of the kids saw me using it and wanted to know how it worked...
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24/1/13 02:27 (UTC)I have no way to justify my desire to go to a running camp. It certainly won't make me a better animator/mograph artist or whatever it is I do.