Aelione

I was an artist in High School and throughout most of college, but something happened when I was 22 or so… I just…STOPPED. I think a part of me didn’t think I was good enough to take it anywhere, or my life just go so stressful that I didn’t have time for myself to create anything. I miss it very much… I want to get started again! Just put my fear to the side and begin!

Yes, I’m almost 30 and I don’t ride bike… many people have tried to get me into it, but I think it’s something that I also need to do by myself. It’s an empowerment thing, I think.

Libraries have always been really safe, happy places for me, and throughout childhood, my only real adult allies were the librarians in my school and public libraries. For some strange reason, though, I never thought of being a librarian! I always thought it was something that was hard to get into… even though I would look at the librarians at my library with a kind of unconscious envy. Then, last week, I was at the library, thinking (a tad jealously) about how cool being a librarian would be, when I said to myself, “Wait! Why CAN’T you be a librarian?” Yes, grad school is prohibitively expensive. Yes, I’m still paying off my loans from undergrad. But I need a career—one I feel like I could actually love—instead of just a job to pay the bills. So, yeah! I want to be a librarian!