Am I a hipster now?

So, I have started using the ios operating system. My kids still think I am a giant dork.

We are lucky enough at my workplace to have the choice between Windows and Mac when we sign in every morning. I was always a Windows user (kind of by default), until I tried to start making videos and capture footage of my desktop to create info lit tutorials.

The windows software package we have doesn't allow me to edit video or capture desktop video. I tried. I found the software that I needed was available for free on the web, but, of course, I cant download any software or updates for software without "administrator permission". That is not me.

The ios software package available to me, however, does contain video editing and QuickTime capture technology, which does exactly what I need.

Over the past couple of weeks I have been trying desperately to get used to doing without my keyboard shortcuts, and I think I am winning!

Occasionally I find my use of Mac is kind of clunky, but only because I am so "Windows socialised". I am hoping to become a fluent Mac speaker within the near future, but am dismayed that I have not yet become any more trendy or "down with the kidz".  :(

The story.

Born just outside Nimbin, NSW, outside a brewery, in the morning on the 1st day of April 1983.

I have been a cleaner at a middle school, a host in dubious bars and nightclubs, a nanny, a model, an elected student representative, a Greenpeace fundraiser, and a research assistant, before finding my calling and completing a Grad.Dip. in Info and Library Studies in 2008.

I have worked in the Public and Academic Library Sectors, and am now Faculty Librarian at a Regional Australian University. I <3 it.

When I am not at work, I am wrangling 4 kids, 3 pythons, 2 lizards, and a dog!

Oh, did I mention I drink a lot of coffee?

I proved you wrong, Mr C-!

WTF!

There is obviously something going on because people keep asking me to talk about the stuff I am passionate about. In public. Must be charisma.

In the last three days I have had three separate people recommend or suggest that I speak at three separate events. Things are looking up for this humble and previously unheard of little librarian.

My most loved pastime appears to have become my profession.

I proved you wrong Mr C-! Serves you  right for telling me that eventually one day I would end up doing something I didn't enjoy. And lets face it, I was right! Copying out endless figures in Business Studies IS tedious!