{"id":1066,"date":"2015-05-27T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2015-05-27T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T00:52:07","slug":"whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2015\/05\/whirlwind","title":{"rendered":"whirlwind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/18057412105\" title=\"the Greek dance II by jessamyn west, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8868\/18057412105_e3d59eeeaa_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"the Greek dance II\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week! A good busy time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Library conference &#8211; I don&#8217;t often go to the local conference for various reasons but this time I was promoting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontlibraries.org\/passport\/\">Library Passport Project<\/a> I&#8217;ve been working on with a few people (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157653025511285\">pictures here<\/a>) and I wanted to see <a href=\"http:\/\/lj.libraryjournal.com\/2015\/03\/people\/movers-shakers-2015\/scott-bonner-movers-shakers-2015-community-builders\/#_\">Scott Bonner<\/a>, the librarian from Ferguson MO, talk about what they&#8217;d been through. He gave a great talk. I also gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/stax\/4417\/my-pecha-kucha-talk-about-open-library\/\">a short talk about Open Library<\/a> and the work I do for them. The conference was super fun and super tiring.<br \/>\n&#8211; Wedding 1 &#8211; a quick wedding for some nice folks who had just moved to town (<a href=\"http:\/\/vermontjp.tumblr.com\/post\/119622874357\/seventh-ceremony-text\">text<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vermontjp.tumblr.com\/post\/119622917092\/josh-and-stephanie-before-the-ceremony\">photo<\/a> on my Vermont JP blog)<br \/>\n&#8211; Wedding 2 &#8211; friends of mine from MetaFilter were getting married in Vermont even though they lived in St Louis. I <a href=\"http:\/\/vermontjp.tumblr.com\/post\/119769484722\/eighth-ceremony-text\">wrote the ceremony<\/a> and then got to attend the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157652979901210\">wedding festivities<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; Jim &#8211; was up for the weekend as my wedding date (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/17871184349\/in\/album-72157652979901210\/\">look at him in a suit<\/a>!) and we took care of neighbor cats and went for walks and got creemees and saw friends and enjoyed the knock-out weather. Even got a photo of Buel&#8217;s Gore!<\/p>\n<p>I wound down with the Annual Barden BBQ which is the best driveway BBQ party I could imagine and then welcomed back Karen and Kevin from their trip to the Cape and watched some lady cop show (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1843678\/\">Scott &#038; Bailey<\/a>, seen it?) and snuggled some neighbor cats who know me as Auntie Jessamyn. These are the sorts of longish weekends I can only vaguely remember when I&#8217;m stuck sniffling in the depths of short chilly winter days. I&#8217;m glad they&#8217;re back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2015\/05\/whirlwind\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to whirlwind\"><p>Last week! A good busy time. &#8211; Library conference &#8211; I don&#8217;t often go to the local conference for various reasons but this time I was promoting the Library Passport Project I&#8217;ve been working on with a few people (pictures here) and I wanted to see Scott Bonner, the librarian from Ferguson MO, talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,4],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}