March’s installment of 7 Questions With… AAAL Members features CJ de Jong, Access Services Coordinator, University of Alberta Libraries.

1. When was the last time you were nervous? I’m pretty nervous right now for the weekend. I’m taking a three-day acroyoga workshop and I’m still a novice. I hope I’ll survive the three days without too many drops on my head! Google images has lots of pics of acroyoga if you’re not sure what it is. They sure make it look easy!

2. What is your best piece of life advice? Get involved in something you enjoy! A cause, a group, a sport, anything. Without a doubt, you’ll find your life enriched.

3. What is your favourite thing to binge watch? Documentaries. EPL is my source as I always find things there I would have never thought to look for!

4. What is your proudest work-related accomplishment? It’s my staff that make me proud. When I see them grow in their jobs and take on new responsibilities through a promotion, that brings me pride.

5. What do you do when you’re not working? Work-life balance is important to me, so I do find all kinds of things to do outside of work. You can often find me at the Lion’s Breath Yoga Studio, as I take a number of yoga classes there (Sattva, Dynamic Flow, Hatha, Acroyoga). For some good laughs I love going to Rapid Fire Theatre, even took a couple of improv classes with them last year. When my feet are itching, I might end up at a Sugar Swing Dance or wherever the music is happening!

6.What is your favourite quote? Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

7. What is your favourite colour? Looking at my wardrobe, there’s a lot of blue and purple.

February’s installment of 7 Questions With… AAAL Members features Corene Kozey, Information Services Librarian  at Buchanan Library, Lethbridge College.

1. What is something interesting you learned in the last month? I was watching Charlie Rose and was excited about a new procedure being used to rectify blindness using stem cells.

2. Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad, but it turned out to be for the best? The one thing that comes to mind is a trip my husband and I took to Mexico. The trip was a tribute to Murphy’s Law! Our travel agent had changed jobs and so our account slipped through the cracks. We were booked on Mexicana Airlines flight 212 from LA to Mexico, an imaginary flight. Our luggage didn’t arrive in Mexico city for 4 days, and the only English our taxi driver could speak was ‘bad hotel’ when we told him where we were staying. In the end, the holiday was probably one of the most enjoyable because we learned to ‘go with the flow’.

3. What is your favourite thing to binge watch? Grey’s Anatomy.

4. What do you eat for breakfast? Dry white toast!

5. What do you do when you’re not working? I think I may have been a bag lady or some type of scavenger bird in my previous life because I get so much enjoyment out of cruising second-hand stores.

6. What is your favourite quote? I don’t really have a favourite quote, but I was researching Murphy’s law with respect to work and found a rather funny law I’d like to share with everyone. ‘A pat on the back is merely centimeters from a kick in the pants.’

7. What is your favourite colour? Green ‘is the colour, football is the game’