{"id":1305,"date":"2018-05-26T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2018-05-26T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T15:40:48","slug":"more-of-the-same-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2018\/05\/more-of-the-same-or-is-it","title":{"rendered":"more of the same, or is it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/main.jpg\" alt=\"maroon screen saying &quot;Hi I&#039;m jessamyn,. I&#039;m a Vermont Librarian. I can teach anyone to use a computer&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/main.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/main-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was chatting with someone on Twitter the other day, as one does, and I checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/andreasuozzo.com\/\">her website<\/a>. It had the lovely spareness that I had been hoping to use on my own website. Better yet, it was in HTML which meant I could copy, alter, and use it (after asking, of course). So I redesigned the entryway to <a href=\"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\">jessamyn.com<\/a> and I&#8217;m pleased with it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been recommitting to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157637745168683\">VT 183<\/a> project, wanting to visit all of Vermont&#8217;s libraries. I got jazzed and re-energized by the Vermont Library Conference (which is exactly what it&#8217;s supposed to do!) and went to five new libraries this week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a lot of legal stuff, from <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jessamyn\/equifax-statement-for-small-claims-court-780d2608e752\">my day in court with Equifax<\/a> which you can read about, to visiting the Vermont Attorney General&#8217;s office to talk about suing the recent managers of the local drive-in for defrauding the people in the town via Kickstarter, to updating my will. People who know me may know that I almost went to law school instead of library school. The structure of legal theory and thought appeals to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been able to get a lot of this stuff done because my teaching, public speaking, and related travel are wrapping up. And, for the rest of 2018, I am planning to not do much more of it. Not for any bad reason but for a few good reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I&#8217;ve been overdoing it. I&#8217;ve been stressed out and for whatever reason (maybe grief, Jessamyn!) this same-old combination of things has not been allowing me to thrive.\n<li> I don&#8217;t have to, right now. I&#8217;ve got a stable, if low, income and I&#8217;m going to make that work for now.\n<li> I&#8217;ve had my head in the sand about global warming but the biggest thing I figured I could change in my life was not getting on any more airplanes. This isn&#8217;t a total overhaul, just a reminder to be more mindful about when I decide to travel and maybe doing it more for fun and less for work.\n<li>I&#8217;m throwing myself in to my hobbies and my neighborhood. This includes visiting more libraries, stepping up my work with the Vermont Library Association, joining the town&#8217;s Conservation Commission, and (my new announcement) joining the board of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermonthumanities.org\/\">Vermont Humanities Council<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More to the point, I think my definition of &#8220;thriving&#8221; is going to include more community work and less get-money-for-Jessamyn work. I&#8217;m really lucky to be able to make this choice for a few months (or longer) and gosh is it lovely outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2018\/05\/more-of-the-same-or-is-it\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to more of the same, or is it\"><p>I was chatting with someone on Twitter the other day, as one does, and I checked out her website. It had the lovely spareness that I had been hoping to use on my own website. Better yet, it was in HTML which meant I could copy, alter, and use it (after asking, of course). So [&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":[537,83,4,198],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-hobbies","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","tag-work","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","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=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}