I've been in library school for two weeks. I. Love. It. I know this is for me. I'm only taking the intro class right now, and I'm already excited for my future career. It makes so much sense now. This is something I should have realized when I graduated from U of I, but for some reason, at that time, I had no idea what I wanted to do. At least the decision has finally been made, and I'm now on the road to becoming a librarian. (Practically everyone I know (especially my parents) has been telling me "I told you so!")

And so, as I sit at my laptop on a rainy May day, listening to my favorite Brahms symphony (#2!), and sipping a glass of pinot grigio, I am actually pleased with myself for making this decision, and knowing that it's the right one.

Rehearsals for Beethoven's 9th start next Tuesday. Whoo.

Something that I will continue in this blog are my reviews of movies, books, etc. So I shall start with "Angels and Demons", which I saw last night. I will admit, I have not yet read the book, but was told beforehand by people who had read it, that it stuck pretty close to the book (more so than the movie version of "The Da Vinci Code" did), and was a better movie in general. Since I can compare the two movies, I agree that "Angels and Demons" was done much, much better than "The Da Vinci Code". I have the book sitting on my bookshelf, and it will most likely be one of the next books I read. Then I can do a better analysis of the movie, since I'll be able to compare it to the original story.

The book I am reading right now happens to be "Breaking Dawn", by Stephenie Meyer, and is the final book in the "Twilight" series. What to say about "Twilight"...I do enjoy the stories. They are entertaining and once you start the series, you want to find out how it ends, and consequently read all four massive volumes. I will say, however, that they are not, (in my opinion, anyway), the best written books I've ever read. (I've been tending to compare them to the Harry Potter books, all of which are fabulously written.) Being a writer myself, though, I respect Stephenie Meyer and her work, and acknowledge that she has written something that gets young adults reading (which can be extremely difficult to do), and again, they are enjoyable stories. Reading them was a fun ride.

What to do with the rest of my day off? I should work on some of my projects for class. Should. But I really want to work on some of my writing right now. (Which includes thinking of an idea for a possible second blog.) Perhaps I'll do some of both.