Oh dear.

It's been a heck of a week. My hubby is ill, change is in the air at work, friendships evolve and change. And I've been saying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Everything seems so small, and yet so big. I don't know how to put it into words, but one moment everything seems so important, and the next moment, nothing seems important. Guess I'll just have to ponder that.
Anyhow, at my favorite of my 3 jobs, I got to work on a report to analyze some citation metrics for a particular division. It was fun to do that type of reference librarian work. It's like being an information detective. I'm glad I got to be a part of that. At my evening medical reference librarian job, I got some really good questions (difficult-to-find article requests, and REAL reference questions that don't involve me unjamming the printer), and have been getting trained to be the backup ILL person. That's been really enjoyable. My coworker, Anya, is a great mentor for things like this. She has even managed to teach me some shortcuts in Excel. Woot! At my newest job, I've continued meeting lots of new people and interviewing them to assess needs of a publication tracking system. I feel like I've got my rhythm with this whole "3 part time jobs" situation, but at the same time, it is a little taxing. Or a lot taxing. Depending on the day. ;) All in all, though, things are going well. I'm connecting with people and learning new skills constantly, and I'm getting paid for it. Life is good. All I need now is for my dear hubby to start feeling better soon.
Oh yeah, one last thing: last Saturday I participated in the Dogwood Classic 5K. Having not run in ages, I was glad that I could alternate between walking and running, and finish with a time of 38 minutes and some odd seconds. I estimate that I ran a little over 2 miles of the course altogether. I felt FANTASTIC the whole rest of the day. I feel motivated to do another one, too. Maybe if I skip the b'fast of Dr. Pepper and Dunkin Donuts I can do even better next time! :p
Ok that's all for now. Peace out!

Goals

Well, I failed in my attempt to make it to mass this weekend. I had the best intentions, but I got distracted by my desire to see some family that was in town. So today I read (what I hope were) the scripture readings for Sunday. The gospel reading was one of my favorites- it is John 8:1-11, and I don't know that because I am some phenomenal Bible scholar, but rather because it is sitting open in my other tab (thank you, tabbed browsing!). It's about the lady that the people want to stone to death, and Jesus tells them that one among them without sin should cast the first stone. I just think it's an awesome reminder to us to be aware of our own shortcomings. But it gets even better, because Jesus then tells the lady to go on, just don't sin anymore. Wow, if only it were that easy!
This got me thinking about goals. One huge life goal could be to just not sin. I mean, that doesn't even require active participation in anything- it's all passive. It's like the Hippocratic Oath's "first do no harm" bit. Why is it so hard, then? I guess because humans are naturally self-serving, and to avoid that is a challenge. But how am I going to go out and achieve all of my other life goals if I can't even master the "simple" stuff? I want to have a good career, be a great wife, maybe even be a mother one day. I want to be a good person, be charitable, exercise, learn, and grow. How can I do all these things? I'm open to suggestions.
Incidentally, I had a great time with my family. ♥
Oh, and I also got to see the Motorola Devour in action at Best Buy. It was awesome, but my technophile hubby expressed some misgivings with the software, so he's got me wondering if a Droid would be a better way to go. The Devour is so much more visually and tangibly appealing, though. Anyhow some new phones come out next month, so he is urging me to wait, and that is fine by me. Maybe time will reveal some more info that will inform my decision. I didn't want to spend all that money on a data plan anyhow. :p