[royr]

While driving north on Hwy 27/441 in Lady Lake, I saw what looked like a mountain range in the direction of Ocala. I thought for a second that I was in western North Carolina. It was a storm cloud close to the ground.

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Originally Posted by royr

While driving north on Hwy 27/441 in Lady Lake, I saw what looked like a mountain range in the direction of Ocala. I thought for a second that I was in western North Carolina. It was a storm cloud close to the ground.

That's cool. I have only been to Eastern North Carolina which seemed a lot like the Villages area but without the alligators! This was only for a day and night too as the North Carolina Central University paid to fly me into Raleigh/Durham from Chicago to interview for a Law Librarian Reference position around December 5-6, 1994. It fell through for me because someone claimed I lied on my resume about supervising student workers at the University of Minnesota Law Library who were doing document delivery. I think anyone on a busy academic reference desk has done some kind of document delivery supervising as students often are not sure what the library user really wanted. It is doubly difficult when dealing with legal materials. I could not remember the two students I supervised names so I was kind of out of luck. Just remember there was a cute female blonde with a nose ring who fellow U of MN Reference Librarian George Jackson used to bug about boogers. And, there was a young male student who looked a lot like Harry Potter at least in retrospect. About the same thing happened but over a word "committee" on my resume at a job interview in Reno at the Washoe County Courthouse around January of 1994. Fortunately, I just drove in from the Santa Rosa/Petaluma area of Northern California and did not have to pay to fly there like with a trip to Topeka, KS. Nice to see my junior and senior high school as well as college home town of Reno, Nevada again after seeing it a the annual Law Librarian convention in the Summer of 1989 where I was introduced as the cataloger of all the computer files on WESTLAW for a National Project cataloging computer legal research resources.

I figured there was no way I could get around this as almost any working law librarian would know that anyone on a large academic law library reference desk does supervising of document delivery. It is like walking and postal workers. Someone was pulling the plug on any chance I had of getting a job in law librarianship.

Just wanted to explain why I never got to stay longer in North Carolina. Liked the staff at NCCU especially the Criminal Law Professor Fred Williams who said that he had been a victim of crime who seemed to be interested in my ideas about practical materials of survivors/victims in law libraries. I had not realized NCCU was an African American college for the most part when I applied as I was applying to anything back then around 1994. I enjoyed the sites in Durham, NC. I am a white Lutheran male.


I would love to see more of North Carolina.

Hope you post more pictures.