{"id":448,"date":"2008-04-29T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/memes-passion-quilt-and-high-school-daze-to-praise\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T00:26:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:26:19","slug":"memes-passion-quilt-and-high-school-daze-to-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/memes-passion-quilt-and-high-school-daze-to-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Memes: “Passion Quilt” and “High School Daze to Praise”"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I get tagged for memes, I sometimes do them and sometimes leave them – and hope that anyone I tag feels free to say “ummmm…. not my cup of tea”. But what I really hate is when I intend to do a meme, but just don’t seem to get around to it.<\/p>\n

I was feeling kind of guilty because I told Cathy Jo over at Techno Tuesday<\/a> that I’d join in on the High School Daze to Praise<\/a> meme about three weeks ago, and still haven’t shared a review of a Young Adult novel that I think is a sure antidote to the daze of High School.<\/p>\n

I’m going to cheat in the same way that Cathy Jo did<\/a>, and mention two books that managed to snap me out of adolescent fog. They were The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate (two books in one volume)<\/a> by Nancy Mitford and The Importance of Being Oscar: the wit and wisdom of Oscar Wilde set against his life and times<\/a> by Mark Nicholls.<\/p>\n

In my High School days, I was living in a small town with small town orthodoxy and small town mores – and boy did I need a dose of English upper class eccentricity and sexual fluidity to make me realise that there were other ways of being. I was enraptured by Lord Merlin in the Pursuit of Love – with his rainbow dyed doves- and with the rude, self centred matriarch Sonia who was totally transformed by her obsession with the “worldly” and “flamboyant” (oh nudge, oh wink) Cedric. And Oscar – well if he could challenge strict Victorian morals with the way he lived and focus on things beautiful and witty, then surely I could see out a few more years of High School and ignore the obsessions of other 15 year olds with getting stoned and\/or pregnant and\/or married immediately out of high school.<\/p>\n

I feel less guilty about taking so long to respond to Cathy Jo now that Michael Stephens has taken around two months to write a post after I tagged him with the Passion Quilt Meme<\/a> – the one where you take an image and add a caption expressing what you think is the most important thing for students under your care to learn. He’s added a twist – what you’d want for new librarians. It’s beginning to make its way through libraryland already…<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample of the Library Passion Quilt patches. I think Dorothea’s one is closest to my heart so far.<\/p>\n

Mine<\/a><\/p>\n

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Michael’s<\/a><\/p>\n

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Helene Blowers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Amanda Etches-Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jenica Rogers-Urbanek<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cindi Trainor<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jason Griffey<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dorothea Salo<\/a><\/p>\n

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When I get tagged for memes, I sometimes do them and sometimes leave them – and hope that anyone I tag feels free to say “ummmm…. not my cup of tea”. But what I really hate is when I intend to do a meme, but just don’t seem to get around to it. I was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-7e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}