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I did some UNISON casework, and I liked it.

Everything I'd done previously as 'Equality Officer' was policy-based, theoretical; but actually talking to a person with problems and helping resolve them? That has the immediate gratification that I've been missing since I left my Admissions job.

For over a year, our Chair has been pointing out that he's about to retire, and asking for a Vice-Chair to step up for shadowing and eventual taking-over. And now I'm tempted..

Yesterday at work, I accidentally started reading a book (note: this is NOT what Librarians do all day, this was a one-off), and I got inspired: "The central issue of philosophy and critical thought since the eighteenth century has always been . . . What is this Reason that we use? What are its historical effects? What are its limits, and what are its dangers? . . . [If] philosophy has a function within critical thought, it is precisely to accept this sort of spiral, this sort of revolving door of rationality that refers us to its necessaity, to its indispensibility, and at the same time to its intrinsic dangers."

Now I want to read some Foucault. Or other awesome postmodernists & sociologists. (One colleague suggested Deleuze, and I know that there was someone that

annalytica was talking about in York). Can people rec me short, accessible, vital pieces of thought?

And finally - I knew it would happen eventually - the sun came out. This week I have had energy, motivation, commitment.. I have achieved so much. I just hope that it lasts.