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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Library Golf, Popcorn Ceilings, Chuck, Churchill and Gin Blossoms...Fore!!

What's with popcorn ceilings?

Like, how did they originate?

Did someone one day decide that their plain flat ceiling was boring and then had a random hose full of popcorn lying around?

Wow, wouldn't this look great up there?

Yeah, let's spray it on the ceiling! My ceiling would look so much cooler if I covered it in tiny bumps...

And then it was all like keeping up with the Joneses.

Gotta have a bumpy ceiling cause smooth ones are out of style.

Or was it more like meant for eclectic people who couldn't tell the difference between the ceiling and the walls so they had to give them different textures just to clarify.

Sorry.

Insomniac question.

Library Golf went fantastic, in case you were wondering.

I know that's why you're all actually here, not to read my ceiling ramblings.



9 holes set up throughout the library.

Two up on fourth floors, ride the broken/get stuck inside elevator down to second floor for one in biographies, music, nonfiction, language and then it's down the back stairway to the bottom of the stairway and over to the adult nonfiction and ending in youth services.

Each of the TAB kids designing and leading their own holes.

Squirt's was Doctor Who themed.

Even made her boyfriend come in and golf, it was amusing.

Rock solid awesome man.

Except that multiple of my members had to leave early so we had some fun staff/volunteer coverage.

Anyway, pictures are being put up on the website, I may steal some of them tomorrow with permission from Info-man who took them. I was too busy running all over four floors to take really any of my own.

Plus he was officially assigned those hours to take pictures so he got plenty.

I know you're all jealous that you didn't get to host a library golf tournament.

For the whole like 20 people who took part.

Not that I was expecting more, with our location I was glad there were any.

Think if we do it again we're gonna open it up to all ages. The only teens that show up to stuff at my branch are the teens already in the advisory board.

But they made me proud today.

Showed up at one, finished their holes, helped out the kids that came through...

Then the new intern and I got to clean it all up.

I'm loving this new intern, today we talked Chuck.



"computer emergency..."

It's nice having someone there my age again.

We had fun, pushing around two flatbed trucks when our main elevator was busted.

The doors would get stuck and all that so instead of us riding in it with our flatbeds we stuck everything in it, sent it downstairs and then ran to meet it.

Highly entertaining.

Just not for the dude who came to fix it.

We were zonked by the end of the takedown you could tell, we were basically just chucking these magazine holders into a pile.

Calling it Queen of the Known Universe's land.

Filled with tiny little magazine people that worship her.

With their own newspaper.

The headlines include:

"Today on her break she read a book!"

Shocking.

Not really.

Those are our zonked out conversations.

So yes, I don't care that only 20 people participated, I would have called 5 a victory.

And even without those 5 my teens would have had fun.

And they did, designing their own holes, I know they were proud of them.

Alright, so that was the highlight of my day - aside from picking the clubs up this morning and dropping them off again.

And now doing homework.

Which is really more of a lowlight, I'm exhausted.

Music and I'm out!

a new one:

Change - Churchill

love it.

and an old one, here's another Song You Know But Forgot You Knew It:

Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms

classic.

Back to Chuck.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Anywhere you go I'll follow you down...

Okay.

The boyfriend is the official spider killer.

Cause we watched Arachnophobia and now I'm all paranoid.

Bad time to watch it for the first time as soon I'm off to camp for a week.

And there are bugs everywhere.

For once I'm grateful that I have a spaz for a cat.

Any little bug he's all over it, batting it around.

So he gets to sleep on my stomach tonight with no complaints from me.

Today was pretty big.

Promotion without the pay raise.

So I guess it's less of a promotion and more of a let's add more stress to CK's workload.

Wasn't the goal for this fall to have less stuff going on in life?

Working 40 hours, 3 master's classes, grad assistantship, boyfriend, camp fallout...I'm sure there's more but I'm blocking it out until after camp.

Anyway, more on the non-promotion later. When everything is official and all that.

Food Drive people came to pick up the barrels today. And I sent in all the proceeds from our loose change milkjugs so I am officially done!! Woohoo! Last year and everything, it's all on my apprentice now.

Lots more compliments on the food drive sculpture competition, most notably from our head of IT. He was in charge of the food drive a few years ago, said this brought in much more donations.

What else at work?

Updated the TAB form. Had a girl come in this morning specifically asking for one. That means I'm up to like 6 new members and all the paperwork to go with it.

Oh yeah, debated peaches vs. nectarines with big brother. I brought a peach this morning but big brother claimed it was a nectarine. Fearless Leader was the judge and confirmed the peach theory. But said it was a "low-fuzz peach" so it looked like a nectarine.

Didn't really matter as it tasted like crap so I didn't eat the whole thing anyway.

After work I headed out to the boyfriend's place. Drove around for a while, went to Walmart to pick up some stuff, then watched the movie.

Seriously paranoid.

Does anyone else get all itchy when they watch a movie about bugs or is that just me?

Alright, gotta sleep now.

Huge day tomorrow, gotta take Carter to the farmhouse, then gotta get back to write the rest of my skits and start packing, then on Thursday I'll be ready to go after work and will have time to grab all the stuff I will have forgotten to pack tomorrow.

Cause there's always something I'll forget.

Need the DVD's for teen camp.

Printer for skits.

Registration paperwork and lineup for counselors.

Print off the emailed registrations from the panicked mother that called me today.

It's not often you check your mail and cheer when you don't get any letters.

Woohoo!

Though there's still tomorrow.

And Thursday before I leave.

Wouldn't be the first time.

Or the first year that kids just show up without registering at all.

That's why we have air mattresses.

And tents.

Which we're going to have to use for the second year in the row for the 4th grade boys.

But they fight over the spots in the tent so they'll be fine.

Alright, now really gotta crash. Turn on some Wipeout and wipeout myself.

Song you know but forgot you knew it:

"Follow You Down" Gin Blossoms





EDIT:

forgot to add this one, nutzo the squirrel made a repeat appearance.



what was more amusing were the 8 people - security guard and patron included - gathering around the window taking pictures of him.