Thanks everyone for posting! I'm in the midst of working on one of my finals so I hope it's okay that perhaps I'll PM some of you to hear more about what you do.

I will say that I am not at all surprised by how many Mudcat people are book lovers. It definitely comes across! :)

While it doesn't take too many trips to the site to see the craziness here, I saw the caring, humor and genuine love of music and support of musicians here from the very first.

I am not a professional musician. I love music and I love singing traditional music- whether it's from America, Ireland, Scotland or anywhere else where the music is sweet and the lyrics inspire.

There was a time in my life when my big dream was to be a singer-songwriter who sang traditional songs along with my own. Found that my guitar playing was too slow for my singing and stopped for a while. Picking up the guitar again and with luck will keep going with it so I can start to performing with accompaniment instead of simply a cappella, which I also love doing.

BTW, Shane, do you know me??? "Thin tight lips and mean eyes and real pointy glasses and hair tied in a bun"???? That's an almost uncanny description of me although you did leave out the flat feet from standing so much in the library, and of course, the big huge strong arms from carrying all those books to reshelf… hummm, I wonder why I'm still single??? A librarian's lot in life is never easy…