Well, lookee this! My horsehead antics at Yomicon won me an award! Here’s what my nominator had to say about my services: Read more about my new job at my portfolio site, megholle.com.
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my new job
Yomicon—”reading con”—is an annual anime/manga/cosplay event for teens at the Austin Public Library. The free five-hour event features geeky crafts, gaming, costume and art contests, Magic, Minecraft, manga drawing workshops and tons of nerd swag. They asked for staff volunteers; they got a creepy horse galomping about, nuzzling shrieking children. I worked the photo booth,…
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Chapter Next: Austin, TX
Librarians, we’re the worst, we never rest, men in black will march to the reference desk, muzzle cries of access, freedom to read, information privacy, making inner worlds safe for democracy, enriched and courageous, one worth embracing.
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lionsitting
We stirred magic capsules in a cauldron of water till they turned into foam bugs.
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safety and love
I looked for proper dinosaurs to give my niece for her second birthday, but all I could find are battery-operated blinkenlight mech-warrior monstrosities, with guns.
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emo tortugas all the way down
When I spotted the turtle wind chime in Puerto Viejo, my heart split asunder.
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christmas came!
I launched my first tree, found last summer curbside-sad while on an alley jog through East Isles.
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2011 llama pageant
Yesterday I saw my first llama pageant, an annual event at the Minnesota State Fair.
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Everything Is Terrible
Roaming the Lake Street Savers, I spied my first Jerry in the wild.
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mississippi megalops
I have a hard time relaxing. Every hour is structured, how else will life and death get done? and when the warm weather comes and wants my sweat, I kinda freak out.
