As of December 1, I'm officially the new Young Adult Specialist at the main branch of my area's library I'm not exactly sure what all this entails yet--I know I'll be doing activities for teenagers and helping the Children's Department with puppet shows (I get to be a rapping troll my first week ), but wow.....I haven't had a full-time job since I quit my last one to go back to school in 2007, and haven't had retirement and insurance since 2003 (and it's under our state's teacher retirement, so if I ever get back in a school setting, it still counts).  This is a huuuuuuuuge blessing, as I've got student loans that can't be deferred for much longer (though of course I'll start paying on them now, so the interest doesn't go up any more) and my car is in desperate need of new headlights (they've got that stupid oxidation on the inside, where I can't get in to clean them).  This will be my last week at my part-time position in a teeny tiny town I love, but we're all part of the regional system so I'll still see my co-workers once in awhile

In creative news--I'm finally going to get a tablet (it was supposed to be last year's Christmas present, but I haven't gotten around to it), and I've got an idea for an original story that I'm working on, bit by bit, with all the other things that are going on right now, which includes reading more YA books, since that's work now (oh darn, I have to read books ) The ones I'm currently working on are Divergent by Veronica Roth and DragonSpell by Donita K. Paul (both are the first in series--I'll let y'all know how they go )

Oh, and my summer reading list--I ended up reading 10 or eleven books (one didn't fit the theme but I had to read it!) between May and September.  Here's the final tally:

1.)The Help
2.)The Hunger Games
3.)Catching Fire
4.)Mockingjay
5.)The Hobbit
6.)The Invention of Hugo Cabret
7.)The Walk (which is actually third in a series.....which I didn't realize til later--this is the one that wasn't part of the theme, but it was good anyway )
8.)The Lightning Thief
9.)The Sea of Monsters
10.)The Titan's Curse
11.)The Battle of the Labyrinth
12.)The Last Olympian

Now my next exciting thing is that The Hobbit comes out December 14th--I can't wait!