Fair warning this post will most likely last 5 minutes maximum.
It's only 11 and I've already fallen asleep twice.
Apparently getting only 3 hours of sleep is bad for your body, and can only last so long even if you did manage to cover that during the day with 3 cups of coffee and a mountain dew.
But today was worth it, there were multiple jump-up-in-the-air-and-fist-pump moments.
Starting this morning with a kickass meeting with the Library Goddess. The both of us losing our voices - but mine is always like that pre-8AM. I was waiting to get crap for it but as hers was gone too it was more amusing than anything else.
Remember that rebuttal email that I wrote last night that took me like an hour? It was worth it. Seriously. It's not to have supervisors excited about your ideas, so excited in fact that they stand up for them. So it's looking good for library golf, but the process is still in the early planning stages. A lot can change, though as long as we're not restricted to the 4th floor I'll be happy.
I still suck at Scratched vs. More Scratched, BossLady dominated again.
Oh and we had our Thursday Afternoon Meeting today for youth services talking about some Summer Readin specifics and the like. That's where the title came from, there's always some interest snacks involved with that group.
I'm back to Lie To Me. But I'm off tomorrow so I'm thinking I'll throw in People Like Us and crash yet again soon.
Excited for a day off tomorrow, sleeping in, have nothing but a meeting in the afternoon and then dinner with the boyfriend's family after. Stoked for some great Mexican food. Best leftovers ever.
What else from today?
I did manage to find something for the boyfriend for Valentine's Day, however I can't post about it but I will keep you posted as it goes.
I'm really not good at all that stuff - Valentine's Day has never been my strong point cause I've never really been excited about celebrating it.
Granted my reason was always something to the effect that I didn't have anyone worthy that I would like to celebrate it with. Which is obviously changed so now I kind of look forward to it.
But the present is cool so I hope he likes it.
Alright, that's all I got. Sleep is near. Listen to these and crash yourself.
Songs stuck in my head all day:
and yes i'm aware i've posted these both within the past few months. didn't stop them from being in my head all day.
Scream and Shout - will.i.am & Britney Spears
except there were only parts of these songs that i sang over and over, this one being 1:10-1:13 which of course you can't sing out loud. didn't stop me from jamming to it in my head at the desk.
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - George Satellites
it was 0:29-0:33 for this one.
out.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
You suck at this game!
So I play this game on the drive home.
I drive the same route every night so you get to know traffic patterns and all that. Anyway, if I go a certain speed with no car in front of me I can hit every green light a split second before it turns yellow all the way to my apartment.
However, if there is a car in front of me I hit every red light.
Not one, all.
So of course there was this obnoxious car going under the speed limit and I can't pass them so we hit all the lights.
He sucks at that game.
Oh my god, so I'm watching Jennifer Lawrence on David Letterman, was I the only one who got her First Wives Club reference?
Has no one else seen that movie?
Did people think that she would actually insult Meryl Streep like that?
Seriously?
Bette Midler's character Brenda picks up an award that Goldie Hawn's character won and says something to the effect of, "look it says I beat Meryl!"
I bet I can find it.
HA!
LiLo blowing everything out of proportion. As always.
I'm sorry, tangent.
So, today was the scavenger hunt.
I spent the majority of the day FTFO.
Even this morning making changes and then the hour before realize that one of my clues was checked out so my wonderful Trainee found me a different book and wrote the clue.
But the kids seemed to like it.
Didn't think it was lame. Or at least that's what they said.
And they learned stuff.
Or seemed to.
I had fun making it, though it took like months on and off.
Gotta work with the off desk time all I can.
Anyway, so they paired off and I had 5 sets of clues - cause I didn't want them to just follow each other around the library. Each of the clues was based around the life of a Nebraska author featured in our in-house special library.
They started with microfilm and OF COURSE today of all days some dude decides to camp out on one of the machines and then the articles take a while to find plus the third machine takes forever to load and then neither of them print so I had some skip ahead to the next clues and then work their way around, whatever, after they showed me the article - instead of printing it off and bringing it to me - I gave them their next clue which was a call number to a biography which they had to locate which then led them to adult nonfiction then to adult fiction which then led them to finding information in a specific database - tied to their subject matter - that they had to show me and then after the database was the music section and then we all ended up on 3rd.
Meanwhile, on the backs of all these task/clues were bonus questions specifically about our library system. What are the full names of all the branches? (look for a business card at the desk) Who is ours named after and why? (ask a staff member) What year did we open? (look for a plaque outside the entrance) What animal is hanging in Youth services? What color is this person's portrait's frame? etc. etc. There were more but I'm rambling.
But they all got them right and they took the time to answer them and to go to all these places in the library and they did it without complaint so I'm proud of them.
Anyway, it ended with an awesome tour by our in-house special librarian. Who is excellent. And I'm pretty sure she gets cabin fever cause almost every day I see her fixing displays on first floor.
Love it.
But she had fun with it and the kids seemed to like it. Was a good refresher for me. Got my C-NAMES down.
Long story.
Anyway, that was pretty much all afternoon and really the only thing from the morning was training new staff to work over at one of the other branches. This time there's 3 new girls - one of which used to work at the work branch and is back. The other haven't worked at libraries before. All 3 are pretty awesome and said we hadn't scared them off and they are coming back again tomorrow so, job well done.
And that was my day.
So, on to the music. More of 2012's greatest hits
Starships - Pitch Perfect cast plus Youtubers
cause i think it's cool.
Scream & Shout - Will.i.am and Britney Spears
first of these greatest hits that i don't own. actually this is the first time i've heard the song all the way through. it's not bad, may buy it.
just such a random combination of artists.
We Are Young - Fun
at first was not such a fan of these guys, but they've grown on me. really like Some Nights.
Why yes Craig, it is a great day for America.
I miss this show.
Used to watch it every night for like years.
Literally years.
And LENA'S A GUEST!!
Totally DVR'ing this one.
Useless Information
a la Craig Ferguson
The reason a vaccination is called a vaccination is because...
When they were searching for cures to smallpox they noticed that milk maids never got small pox, however they did get cow pox. And that little bit of cow pox kept the small pox away. Since the Latin word for cow is "Vacca" it led to "Vaccination".
and just cause i can...
and i'm out.
EDIT
Sorry, Lena's interview was hysterical and reminded me of how often I rewind it when guests swear and they put flags over their mouths and Craig yells something else and I found this great example so I'm adding it cause I think it's funny.
that's how i dance.
I drive the same route every night so you get to know traffic patterns and all that. Anyway, if I go a certain speed with no car in front of me I can hit every green light a split second before it turns yellow all the way to my apartment.
However, if there is a car in front of me I hit every red light.
Not one, all.
So of course there was this obnoxious car going under the speed limit and I can't pass them so we hit all the lights.
He sucks at that game.
Oh my god, so I'm watching Jennifer Lawrence on David Letterman, was I the only one who got her First Wives Club reference?
Has no one else seen that movie?
Did people think that she would actually insult Meryl Streep like that?
Seriously?
Bette Midler's character Brenda picks up an award that Goldie Hawn's character won and says something to the effect of, "look it says I beat Meryl!"
I bet I can find it.
HA!
LiLo blowing everything out of proportion. As always.
I'm sorry, tangent.
So, today was the scavenger hunt.
I spent the majority of the day FTFO.
Even this morning making changes and then the hour before realize that one of my clues was checked out so my wonderful Trainee found me a different book and wrote the clue.
But the kids seemed to like it.
Didn't think it was lame. Or at least that's what they said.
And they learned stuff.
Or seemed to.
I had fun making it, though it took like months on and off.
Gotta work with the off desk time all I can.
Anyway, so they paired off and I had 5 sets of clues - cause I didn't want them to just follow each other around the library. Each of the clues was based around the life of a Nebraska author featured in our in-house special library.
They started with microfilm and OF COURSE today of all days some dude decides to camp out on one of the machines and then the articles take a while to find plus the third machine takes forever to load and then neither of them print so I had some skip ahead to the next clues and then work their way around, whatever, after they showed me the article - instead of printing it off and bringing it to me - I gave them their next clue which was a call number to a biography which they had to locate which then led them to adult nonfiction then to adult fiction which then led them to finding information in a specific database - tied to their subject matter - that they had to show me and then after the database was the music section and then we all ended up on 3rd.
Meanwhile, on the backs of all these task/clues were bonus questions specifically about our library system. What are the full names of all the branches? (look for a business card at the desk) Who is ours named after and why? (ask a staff member) What year did we open? (look for a plaque outside the entrance) What animal is hanging in Youth services? What color is this person's portrait's frame? etc. etc. There were more but I'm rambling.
But they all got them right and they took the time to answer them and to go to all these places in the library and they did it without complaint so I'm proud of them.
Anyway, it ended with an awesome tour by our in-house special librarian. Who is excellent. And I'm pretty sure she gets cabin fever cause almost every day I see her fixing displays on first floor.
Love it.
But she had fun with it and the kids seemed to like it. Was a good refresher for me. Got my C-NAMES down.
Long story.
Anyway, that was pretty much all afternoon and really the only thing from the morning was training new staff to work over at one of the other branches. This time there's 3 new girls - one of which used to work at the work branch and is back. The other haven't worked at libraries before. All 3 are pretty awesome and said we hadn't scared them off and they are coming back again tomorrow so, job well done.
And that was my day.
So, on to the music. More of 2012's greatest hits
Starships - Pitch Perfect cast plus Youtubers
cause i think it's cool.
Scream & Shout - Will.i.am and Britney Spears
first of these greatest hits that i don't own. actually this is the first time i've heard the song all the way through. it's not bad, may buy it.
just such a random combination of artists.
We Are Young - Fun
at first was not such a fan of these guys, but they've grown on me. really like Some Nights.
Why yes Craig, it is a great day for America.
I miss this show.
Used to watch it every night for like years.
Literally years.
And LENA'S A GUEST!!
Totally DVR'ing this one.
Useless Information
a la Craig Ferguson
The reason a vaccination is called a vaccination is because...
When they were searching for cures to smallpox they noticed that milk maids never got small pox, however they did get cow pox. And that little bit of cow pox kept the small pox away. Since the Latin word for cow is "Vacca" it led to "Vaccination".
and just cause i can...
and i'm out.
EDIT
Sorry, Lena's interview was hysterical and reminded me of how often I rewind it when guests swear and they put flags over their mouths and Craig yells something else and I found this great example so I'm adding it cause I think it's funny.
that's how i dance.
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