So I started librarianship qualifications...

Hi Everyone,

I hope that you are okay. It seems like such a strange world that we are living in. I’m hoping that wherever you are in the world, you are safe and you are healthy. Right now in Melbourne we are in our second lockdown whilst our COVID cases seem to be rising everyday, freaking out Melbournians, Victorians and Australians alike. And yet, those numbers seem like nothing compared to those that are occuring in some overseas countries.

So if you are reading this and need something to pick you up, know you are not alone and every feeling during this bizarre time is completely valid, we are ALL in this together and like pandemics of the past, we will get through this.

This is a much different post from what I have seen sparodically posting, but in all honesty have to admit that I have done no where near the amount of reading I had hoped. Despite lockdown (both of them) I seem to have been more successful in making my way through Netflix than I have my massive TBR. I hope I’m not alone in this, as all my friends seem to have well and truly surpassed their reading goals for the year.

Right now I’m not working as the library is closed (and oh how I am missing all my amazing colleagues and our beautiful library patrons), but I still seem to have been very very busy. On Monday I officially graduated from my BA and amidst all the COVID chaos and delays, began a Masters degree in Information Management, in other words, librarianship.

I’m writing this today because I can’t contain my excitement. I have been dreaming in starting down this path for so long and I can’t quite believe that it has arrived. One of my first classes was cataloguing and though I know it drives some people up the wall. I have to say so far I’m truly loving the content.

I debated about posting this today as I didn’t want it to seem like I was bragging or indifferent to the suffering of many, but I know that I have taken joy from seeing the small exciting news from others and to feel like there was some normality in the world. If that’s not the case for you then I apologise and if you need someone to talk to please feel free to reach out or message me on my bookstagram, but I couldn’t quite contain my happiness in finally getting where I have been striving for the last 5 years.

How have your days been going? What wonderful books have you been reading? I’d love to know what you lovely people have been doing recently.

And as seems to have become the saying of the times, stay healthy and stay safe!