STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

*how did you become a librarian?
Towards the end of college I was trying to figure out what to do with my liberal arts degree and I knew that it was going to be difficult to find a good job in the art world with a decent salary so I started thinking about how one thing I loved to do is research and I also dreaded the idea of having a generic office job and having to do lots of projects and deal with meetings etc. and I wondered if being a librarian was a good option. I wound up getting a summer internship at a law firm (same one I'm at now!) and they had a spot in the library. I talked to the reference librarians there and learned that they were paid well and they did a lot of challenging research so I decided to do that. I also like the fact that there's a decent amount of flexibility. If I get sick of this I can switch to another kind of library relatively easily.


*what is your favorite book?
Probably Brideshead Revisisted. I think I've read it 3 times and there's just something about it that clicks for me. I also love Master and Margarita, Crime and Punishment, The Great Gatsby, The Executioner's Song.


*do you have brothers/sisters? where are they/what do they do?
I have a sister who is almost 3 years younger. She's the quintessential younger sister - wild, not especially responsible etc. - and it's funny how opposite we are. But she's tons of fun and she's my best friend.

*how did you meet your french bf?
He's actually only temporarily French. He was born in Romania and raised in NJ but he has been living in Europe for a large portion of the past few years - first in England for grad school and now in France for a fellowship. Hopefully he'll get a position in the US for next fall!

We met through friends. It was actually pretty funny - our friends tried to set us up last summer and I wasn't into him at all and couldn't figure out what my friends were thinking. I tried to abort the set-up by saying something that I figured he would think was really ignorant and thus if he had any interest in me it would quickly evaporate. Then late last year I started lurking on a message board where a bunch of these same friends post and I happened upon a poster that seemed funny and interesting and one day realized that it was the weirdo my friends tried to set me up with. I started corresponding with him right before he moved to France, threw him a going away party and when he came back to the States in April we finally got together.