I love it when my friends are like, you have a blog?!
Yeah.
2 and a half years, 833 posts and 59,000 views later...
Thanks for the support.
It is the longest non-family relationship I've ever had.
Minus perhaps the MxPx bag.
But you can read about that here: New Shoes, the Cheese Speech, Warped Tour and MxPx
Yes, I have a blog.
And yes, for once in my life I have the patience and persistence to follow through with something.
Even if it is just rambling on virtual paper.
I know that is shocking to some people, especially since I was such an introvert when it first started.
Though years of working in public service seems to have changed that.
Which I didn't realize until it was pointed out to me.
I don't even remember how it came up, and I'm sure it's on here somewhere, but I was talking to Joe Studley and I was like, "but I am shy!" and Glee-Loving Boss just appears out of nowhere and goes "since when?!"
Ha! I found it. Go here: "I'll meet you there, I'm gonna go jam out to Gwyneth Paltrow!"
Perfect timing.
But I guess he was right.
And that was 2010, it's only gotten worse now that I'm in charge of stuff.
Speaking of being in charge of stuff, sometimes that sucks.
I had 2 people call me yesterday about volunteer work and another 2 call me today.
Yes, things do pick up in the summer, but not that much.
I have one coming in to train on Tuesday, another on Wednesday and after that I am just out of space.
Cause I already got a new one started last week!
So the suckish part is having to turn people down. Though I usually just direct them to a different branch.
That's the joy about working in a library system.
Another joy about working for a library system?
Getting to go to fun library conferences.
I know, some of you think that's an oxymoron, but I'm actually excited about this next one.
And it has great timing and placement.
Big teen event put on by the SLJ - School Library Journal, it's a magazine - it's basically a big online thing with a bunch of Young Adult authors. They talk about their books and then there's Q&A with the authors.
Gonna be fun, and guess where our session is being hosted!
The boyfriend's library.
If he even has a card there, I don't know, I haven't asked.
I should ask.
How have I not asked?
Anyway, I'm going to the library that just happens to be in his town and it's an all day thing which means I can go out there the night before and bring my cat with me cause the week after that IS CAMP J!!
I'm sure my mother is thrilled to read about that.
She just loves watching my cat while I'm gone.
But he likes the farmhouse.
And he doesn't bite there cause dad will stick him outside with the mean outdoor cats.
Plus he loves his grandma.
She hates it when I call her that.
But then she gives him Christmas presents and signs them "from grandma" so she really brings it on herself.
I don't know where I was going with this post.
Blog.
Home branch memories.
Volunteers.
SummerTeen event.
Carter.
None of those were my actual intention for this post, though frankly what was I've already forgotten.
Today was boring as the library was dead.
Came home and watched the rest of Doc Martin season two.
I'm liking it.
Mostly because it has Ash in it from Murder in Suburbia - Catherine Catz - but also because the doctor is just so rude and oblivious to all that's going on around him, it's highly entertaining.
"The Baker. The Colonel. Do these people have no names?!"
I have mentioned my amusement earlier right?
British show.
Created by Craig Ferguson.
I know, big surprise why I watch it. Watched his late show every night for like 3 years.
Anyway, grumpy doctor, used to be a successful surgeon suddenly can't stand the sight of blood, moves to a tiny town and becomes their general practitioner.
But it's hysterical, you should check it out.
Just finished season two, will have to request season three.
Think we have at least though season 5 at the library. At least I hope so.
Gotta love library DVD's.
Gonna put in another now as I fall asleep.
Though I'm exhausted - have been all day - so I won't last long.
Song of the day:
Love Jenny Lewis especially when its her and the Watson Twins.
I Met Him On A Sunday - Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins / Cold Jordan - Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice
this is hysterical.
but my favorite by them is probably still...
You Are What You Love
pull another rabbit out of your hat.
she's quite good live.
i know, i'm sorry for overloading you with more of my indie music.
maybe tomorrow i'll go with something you'll recognize but you'll be missing out!!
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Saturday, June 8, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
"Your beard is so fat not even Dora can explore it."
Oh my god, I'm not allowed to get hooked on Duck Dynasty.
It's ridiculous.
Stupid marathons.
I didn't even turn it on, the channel was already on.
I meant to turn the TV on in the background - silence drives me nuts - but then I hear "There's a bearded man starting a fire in his yard, what are we gonna do?"
Not allowed.
Stupid marathons.
Headphones going back in both ears.
We actually had this conversation in class.
Well, on a discussion board for class.
Apparently I'm not the only one who does their homework with earbuds in for music and the TV on in the background.
Generational thing.
So today was pretty good.
Got to spend the majority of it with the Glee-Loving Boss at the home branch. We jammed.
Super busy morning. Mostly because there's only ever two of us and he did two storytimes and left for a lunch so I was alone at the desk for like 3 hours.
Not. Boring.
So 9-3 there, then back to the work branch for the rest of the day. Had a lot of my list of things to do once there but got to none of them because we were swamped there too. I was there for 3 hours and got 20-something stats in 2 of them alone.
After work the boyfriend came up. We watched Splash - to see Suh get eliminated - and then Rock of Ages.
Not bad.
Catherine Zeta-Jones was my favorite.
Of course, I know, big surprise there.
Can't believe that was Tom Cruise.
It didn't seem like him at all. Maybe it was the long hair that threw me off.
Scale of Awesome rates it at about 7/10.
Now they're telling beard jokes.
Apparently they're worse than your-mama jokes.
"Your beard is so fat not even Dora can explore it."
"Your beard is so stupid it took it two hours to watch 60 minutes."
"Your beard is so dumb it sits on the TV and watches the couch."
Okay, nothing good can come of this. I'm gonna give you music and then I'm gonna crash.
Back to regular work tomorrow.
More Voice Audition Rec's.
Can't Help Falling In Love With You - Jess Kellner
battle of the newbies.
Sunday Morning - Josiah Hawley
love blake's hair.
Mean - Danielle Bradbery
"are you bribing her with justin bieber tickets?!"
"nashville is a state." "one of the sixty states!"
Boyfriend - Vedo
"i'm gonna go cry with her."
out!
It's ridiculous.
Stupid marathons.
I didn't even turn it on, the channel was already on.
I meant to turn the TV on in the background - silence drives me nuts - but then I hear "There's a bearded man starting a fire in his yard, what are we gonna do?"
Not allowed.
Stupid marathons.
Headphones going back in both ears.
We actually had this conversation in class.
Well, on a discussion board for class.
Apparently I'm not the only one who does their homework with earbuds in for music and the TV on in the background.
Generational thing.
So today was pretty good.
Got to spend the majority of it with the Glee-Loving Boss at the home branch. We jammed.
Super busy morning. Mostly because there's only ever two of us and he did two storytimes and left for a lunch so I was alone at the desk for like 3 hours.
Not. Boring.
So 9-3 there, then back to the work branch for the rest of the day. Had a lot of my list of things to do once there but got to none of them because we were swamped there too. I was there for 3 hours and got 20-something stats in 2 of them alone.
After work the boyfriend came up. We watched Splash - to see Suh get eliminated - and then Rock of Ages.
Not bad.
Catherine Zeta-Jones was my favorite.
Of course, I know, big surprise there.
Can't believe that was Tom Cruise.
It didn't seem like him at all. Maybe it was the long hair that threw me off.
Scale of Awesome rates it at about 7/10.
Now they're telling beard jokes.
Apparently they're worse than your-mama jokes.
"Your beard is so fat not even Dora can explore it."
"Your beard is so stupid it took it two hours to watch 60 minutes."
"Your beard is so dumb it sits on the TV and watches the couch."
Okay, nothing good can come of this. I'm gonna give you music and then I'm gonna crash.
Back to regular work tomorrow.
More Voice Audition Rec's.
Can't Help Falling In Love With You - Jess Kellner
battle of the newbies.
Sunday Morning - Josiah Hawley
love blake's hair.
Mean - Danielle Bradbery
"are you bribing her with justin bieber tickets?!"
"nashville is a state." "one of the sixty states!"
Boyfriend - Vedo
"i'm gonna go cry with her."
out!
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
what a bright time, it's the right time
It's interesting how fast days are flying by.
I just want everything to stop, literally just stop and go slower.
Christmas is the best time of the year and it's almost over already!!
Last year didn't feel like Christmas at all cause there was no snow, this year it's mad snowing outside right now. If the temps stay low maybe some of it will still be around next week.
But probably not enough to go sledding.
We'll see.
Though we're rednecks so our version of sledding is hooking up a sled behind a four wheeler.
Or what you would call an ATV.
Then driving it all over the yard, through the fields, over the pond, over buried cars, etc.
Have some interesting memories from sledding. Remember one time Tweet was driving the 4 wheeler and Alex and I were in the sled, he was in the front, we hit a bump, he fell out - somehow over the front - and I ran him over with the sled. My bad. But not like I could do anything about it we were going that fast.
Another time my brother was driving and he used to have this big black lab that was very excited about cars and stuff so he totally took me out on the sled, didn't even see it coming.
Then I ran Megan into a mailbox.
That was legitimately my bad.
The thing about this one was that the rope was really long and you have to remember that when you turn corners. Gotta remember to turn wide or you'll end up running your third cousin straight into the mailbox.
But she survived so we're good.
Megan and I have been through a lot together - "those are gonna be some weirdass dreams" Camp J Highlights - but somehow our adventures are always highly entertaining.
So worked all day today and it flew by. Am shifting the books on CD cause we're out of space and weeding any more of them would be ridiculous. Anyway, BossLady and I are adding shelves so I got to stand in the broken glass while she climbed over stuff to get the nice looking ones from the backroom of the basement.
It's like a graveyard down there, I should have taken a picture. Piles taller than me full of shelves and edges.
"Like graveyard jenga down here."
Why yes, I do still say that in a Scottish accent. Go here or here or here or here or here but mostly here
Wow, have I really abstained from that saying that phrase for over a year?
"Result!"
I realized you have no idea what I'm talking about. You should all go to your local library and request a copy of Bonekickers. It's fantastic. British CSI meets Indiana Jones. It was so cheesy it was awesome. Though the critics didn't think so which is why it only lasted a few episodes.
After doing that for a few hours it was back to the desk, lunch, checking in holds, then more shifting and desk stuff. Tomorrow will most likely be more of the same.
Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Six
Slight changes to day six, last year I included Glee's mashup of Deck the Halls and Up on the Rooftop and as much as it doesn't suck I can't post it again as it would kill the whole, same songs different artists thing.
On to the music.
Sleigh Ride - Karmin
Last year's was one of my favorite bands - She and Him - but this year I went with a Nebraska girl. More specifically, college town girl. A quite famous one.
Nice to hear the other half of Karmin in this one - aka her fiance.
I like the new one but it's hard to beat Brokenhearted.
It's just too damn catchy.
Jingle Bell Rock - Chord Overstreet
Because who doesn't want to dance with cheerleaders dressed as reindeer to a choreographed song about dancing bells in the middle of a library?
I'm so far behind but Glee-Loving Boss - for the 2 seconds that I saw him when I was at the home branch - said I need to watch the Xmas episode. I don't even know who's in it anymore aside from Blaine cause of the Hopelessly Devoted to You video I ran across earlier. Go here: There's no where to hide since you pushed my love aside
You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - VersaEmerge (acoustic version)
The girl is pretty good but dude, that guy's got a voice.
Was not expecting that at all. Might have to look into them further.
For last year's day six go here
with arsenic sauce.
Legitimate pre-midnight post. Holy crap tag in use.
I just want everything to stop, literally just stop and go slower.
Christmas is the best time of the year and it's almost over already!!
Last year didn't feel like Christmas at all cause there was no snow, this year it's mad snowing outside right now. If the temps stay low maybe some of it will still be around next week.
But probably not enough to go sledding.
We'll see.
Though we're rednecks so our version of sledding is hooking up a sled behind a four wheeler.
Or what you would call an ATV.
Then driving it all over the yard, through the fields, over the pond, over buried cars, etc.
Have some interesting memories from sledding. Remember one time Tweet was driving the 4 wheeler and Alex and I were in the sled, he was in the front, we hit a bump, he fell out - somehow over the front - and I ran him over with the sled. My bad. But not like I could do anything about it we were going that fast.
Another time my brother was driving and he used to have this big black lab that was very excited about cars and stuff so he totally took me out on the sled, didn't even see it coming.
Then I ran Megan into a mailbox.
That was legitimately my bad.
The thing about this one was that the rope was really long and you have to remember that when you turn corners. Gotta remember to turn wide or you'll end up running your third cousin straight into the mailbox.
But she survived so we're good.
Megan and I have been through a lot together - "those are gonna be some weirdass dreams" Camp J Highlights - but somehow our adventures are always highly entertaining.
So worked all day today and it flew by. Am shifting the books on CD cause we're out of space and weeding any more of them would be ridiculous. Anyway, BossLady and I are adding shelves so I got to stand in the broken glass while she climbed over stuff to get the nice looking ones from the backroom of the basement.
It's like a graveyard down there, I should have taken a picture. Piles taller than me full of shelves and edges.
"Like graveyard jenga down here."
Why yes, I do still say that in a Scottish accent. Go here or here or here or here or here but mostly here
Wow, have I really abstained from that saying that phrase for over a year?
"Result!"
I realized you have no idea what I'm talking about. You should all go to your local library and request a copy of Bonekickers. It's fantastic. British CSI meets Indiana Jones. It was so cheesy it was awesome. Though the critics didn't think so which is why it only lasted a few episodes.
After doing that for a few hours it was back to the desk, lunch, checking in holds, then more shifting and desk stuff. Tomorrow will most likely be more of the same.
Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Six
Slight changes to day six, last year I included Glee's mashup of Deck the Halls and Up on the Rooftop and as much as it doesn't suck I can't post it again as it would kill the whole, same songs different artists thing.
On to the music.
Sleigh Ride - Karmin
Last year's was one of my favorite bands - She and Him - but this year I went with a Nebraska girl. More specifically, college town girl. A quite famous one.
Nice to hear the other half of Karmin in this one - aka her fiance.
I like the new one but it's hard to beat Brokenhearted.
It's just too damn catchy.
Jingle Bell Rock - Chord Overstreet
Because who doesn't want to dance with cheerleaders dressed as reindeer to a choreographed song about dancing bells in the middle of a library?
I'm so far behind but Glee-Loving Boss - for the 2 seconds that I saw him when I was at the home branch - said I need to watch the Xmas episode. I don't even know who's in it anymore aside from Blaine cause of the Hopelessly Devoted to You video I ran across earlier. Go here: There's no where to hide since you pushed my love aside
You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - VersaEmerge (acoustic version)
The girl is pretty good but dude, that guy's got a voice.
Was not expecting that at all. Might have to look into them further.
For last year's day six go here
with arsenic sauce.
Legitimate pre-midnight post. Holy crap tag in use.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Blame it on the boogie.
Current time: 10:59 PM
Location: Couch
Background: NCIS: Los Angeles
What can I say about today? It flew by rather quickly, even though the majority of it was filled with flustered staff and frustrated patrons.
We run on an open source ILS system which means we're completely dependent on the internet, so when any part of that goes down we're screwed. This time I guess it had something to do with Amazon or something that took us down, but we didn't have access to patron records or our catalog from about 12 to 7.
That was fun.
Also fun? Making computer reservations manually by staff because the reservation station was down as well.
Anyway, I guess some of the branches used the offline utility version that you can just upload later, but for some reason both of the branches that I got to work at today - work and home - both decided to write everything out, you know patron barcodes plus the barcode of every checked out item?? on these "downtime" logs.
That was a fun last hour, manually inputting all that data. And I'm guessing it will be more of the same tomorrow since I don't think Koha was back up and running by the time the work branch closed - I left there early to close out at the home branch.
But, I got a lot of other stuff done when I was scheduled to be checking in. Since the system was down all I got was the circle of death - you know when something is supposed to be loading but it just keeps giving you the circle and never loads? - so I stocked supplies, updated by TAB website, got ready for the volunteer that comes tomorrow, filled out my time sheet, applied for leave on Wednesday, etc.
Oh yeah, I register for classes on Wednesday morning and apparently the ones I need fill up in like minutes so I'm staying home in the morning and going in after registration. This way I get time to set everything up and then I can just hit add and be done without the stress.
Cause you know there will be stress, I'll be freaking out cause it's a new system and I don't remember what I'm doing, and it's a big thing, and yes usually you can talk to the professors and ask them to manually add you if the classes are filled, but pretty sure they aren't big fans of doing that.
If I don't make it into those ones maybe I'll take Romance Reader's Advisory instead.
I'm joking, but I'm sure Queen of the Known Universe would be all over that one.
And yes, that's a legitimate class added this year.
I'm making today sound awful, actually it wasn't awful. I got a lot accomplished and yes some of the patrons were impatient but most of them were understanding. I love my job even when the system goes down, I get yelled at by angry patrons, the heat doesn't work, and creepers hit on me.
Cause I'm making a difference and what I'm doing matters and I like the place and the patrons and the material and the atmosphere and my teens and my coworkers and really everything about it. Except for when creepers follow me around the building, not a big fan of that. Which reminds me how grateful I am for security guards!
I remember when I first walked in for the interview and went, "really? a security guard for books?" Oh my god, what an underestimation. I don't know how the other branches function without one.
And I'm happy cause I got to work at the home branch with my Glee-Loving Boss. Who sends me FluMist Nasal Spray stickers through interoffice mail as a practical joke.
It's on.
Long story but I'm sure it's on here somewhere.
I don't know where I was going with all this. Basically the day should have sucked because of what happened but didn't suck cause I like my job?
Does that sum it up?
After work I came home, did some laundry, ate supper, and of course watched the Voice. Only one more night of battle rounds left - tomorrow - after that it's the knockout live shows so I'm pumped.
Many of my favorites faced off tonight and rocked it of course. Let me find my list, it's on here somewhere.
Okay, here's my top 20. I should count how many times this gets posted.
Brandon Mahone – eliminated after first battle
Tonight was huge cause many performed and only one was eliminated, and that was to someone higher on the list, aka Brandon Mahone lost to Nicole Nelson. Cassadee dominated her battle though I was bummed cause they didn't air the whole thing, will have to find it online, and Joe Kirkman also won his battle so that just leaves Adriana Louise and Avery Wilson who have yet to take the stage in the battle rounds.
Looking at who's left Adriana will probably face off against Disney music star Jordan Pruitt and as for Avery I think Lady Gaga backup singer Chevonne is the only one left, but I may be wrong.
So I think there are three battles left and only Xtina has a steal, I'm wondering who she's saving it for. I'm shocked no one grabbed Brandon, he was great but a bit outranked by the awesomeness that is Nicole Nelson.
Watch this if you have no idea what I'm talking about.
Alright, my mother says I'm obsessive and crazy about the Voice so I will stop rambling about it because it's late and I should be sleeping and at this point you probably don't care
SO, on the actual music rec of the night.
It's been stuck in my head, well a version of it has been stuck in my head, ever since seeing Pitch Perfect and I'm totally bummed that their version didn't make the soundtrack cause it's fantastic.
Blame it on the Boogie - Jackson Five
can't go wrong with a classic. even if the video is a bit acid trip.
another legitimate pre-midnight post. holy crap tag in use.
Location: Couch
Background: NCIS: Los Angeles
What can I say about today? It flew by rather quickly, even though the majority of it was filled with flustered staff and frustrated patrons.
We run on an open source ILS system which means we're completely dependent on the internet, so when any part of that goes down we're screwed. This time I guess it had something to do with Amazon or something that took us down, but we didn't have access to patron records or our catalog from about 12 to 7.
That was fun.
Also fun? Making computer reservations manually by staff because the reservation station was down as well.
Anyway, I guess some of the branches used the offline utility version that you can just upload later, but for some reason both of the branches that I got to work at today - work and home - both decided to write everything out, you know patron barcodes plus the barcode of every checked out item?? on these "downtime" logs.
That was a fun last hour, manually inputting all that data. And I'm guessing it will be more of the same tomorrow since I don't think Koha was back up and running by the time the work branch closed - I left there early to close out at the home branch.
But, I got a lot of other stuff done when I was scheduled to be checking in. Since the system was down all I got was the circle of death - you know when something is supposed to be loading but it just keeps giving you the circle and never loads? - so I stocked supplies, updated by TAB website, got ready for the volunteer that comes tomorrow, filled out my time sheet, applied for leave on Wednesday, etc.
Oh yeah, I register for classes on Wednesday morning and apparently the ones I need fill up in like minutes so I'm staying home in the morning and going in after registration. This way I get time to set everything up and then I can just hit add and be done without the stress.
Cause you know there will be stress, I'll be freaking out cause it's a new system and I don't remember what I'm doing, and it's a big thing, and yes usually you can talk to the professors and ask them to manually add you if the classes are filled, but pretty sure they aren't big fans of doing that.
If I don't make it into those ones maybe I'll take Romance Reader's Advisory instead.
I'm joking, but I'm sure Queen of the Known Universe would be all over that one.
And yes, that's a legitimate class added this year.
I'm making today sound awful, actually it wasn't awful. I got a lot accomplished and yes some of the patrons were impatient but most of them were understanding. I love my job even when the system goes down, I get yelled at by angry patrons, the heat doesn't work, and creepers hit on me.
Cause I'm making a difference and what I'm doing matters and I like the place and the patrons and the material and the atmosphere and my teens and my coworkers and really everything about it. Except for when creepers follow me around the building, not a big fan of that. Which reminds me how grateful I am for security guards!
I remember when I first walked in for the interview and went, "really? a security guard for books?" Oh my god, what an underestimation. I don't know how the other branches function without one.
And I'm happy cause I got to work at the home branch with my Glee-Loving Boss. Who sends me FluMist Nasal Spray stickers through interoffice mail as a practical joke.
It's on.
Long story but I'm sure it's on here somewhere.
I don't know where I was going with all this. Basically the day should have sucked because of what happened but didn't suck cause I like my job?
Does that sum it up?
After work I came home, did some laundry, ate supper, and of course watched the Voice. Only one more night of battle rounds left - tomorrow - after that it's the knockout live shows so I'm pumped.
Many of my favorites faced off tonight and rocked it of course. Let me find my list, it's on here somewhere.
Okay, here's my top 20. I should count how many times this gets posted.
Cassadee
Pope
Trevin
Hunte
Nicole
Nelson
Aquile
Avery
Wilson
Bryan
Keith
Brandon Mahone – eliminated after first battle
Michelle
Brooks-Thompson
Adriana
Louise
Collin
Mcloughlin
Terisa Griffin
Suzanna
Choffel
Nelly’s
Echo – eliminated after first battle
Melanie
Martinez
Gracia
Harrison
Celica
Westbrook
Mycle
Wastman
Mackenzie
Bourg
2Steel
Girls – eliminated after first battle
Joe
Kirkman
Tonight was huge cause many performed and only one was eliminated, and that was to someone higher on the list, aka Brandon Mahone lost to Nicole Nelson. Cassadee dominated her battle though I was bummed cause they didn't air the whole thing, will have to find it online, and Joe Kirkman also won his battle so that just leaves Adriana Louise and Avery Wilson who have yet to take the stage in the battle rounds.
Looking at who's left Adriana will probably face off against Disney music star Jordan Pruitt and as for Avery I think Lady Gaga backup singer Chevonne is the only one left, but I may be wrong.
So I think there are three battles left and only Xtina has a steal, I'm wondering who she's saving it for. I'm shocked no one grabbed Brandon, he was great but a bit outranked by the awesomeness that is Nicole Nelson.
Watch this if you have no idea what I'm talking about.
Alright, my mother says I'm obsessive and crazy about the Voice so I will stop rambling about it because it's late and I should be sleeping and at this point you probably don't care
SO, on the actual music rec of the night.
It's been stuck in my head, well a version of it has been stuck in my head, ever since seeing Pitch Perfect and I'm totally bummed that their version didn't make the soundtrack cause it's fantastic.
Blame it on the Boogie - Jackson Five
can't go wrong with a classic. even if the video is a bit acid trip.
another legitimate pre-midnight post. holy crap tag in use.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
oh baby, my sweet baby, you're the one.
Got to spend the day at the home branch with Glee-Loving Boss.
And yes, we did talk about Glee, but I haven't watched it since like 2 seasons ago so I'm a bit behind.
But it's okay cause my mom gives me updates every once in a while.
Like Quinn was in an accident.
And...
Okay, that's all I remember.
But half the good people graduated, but apparently they're still in it or something?
I don't know, I'm confused. Perhaps I'll watch a random episode on hulu and see if I can figure it out.
If not I'm sure there's an online summary somewhere.
It's one of those shows I just lost track of even though I was crazy obsessed at one point in my life.
Like Grey's.
And Bones.
and for a while The Closer.
But I caught up with the last one before the finale.
And Bones I'm still missing a few from last season but I have them taped.
So I'll watch them.
Or I'll buy it and watch them then.
There's just too many shows and I don't have time for them anymore.
I guess that happens when you get a life.
I do still watch NCIS, Castle and the Voice.
But the rest is DVR'd.
And half the time those are DVR'd, but I actually watch them, not let them sit for days and days.
I don't know where I'm going with this.
It's 2AM.
Oh yeah, I don't have to go in until 4 tomorrow, a-woohoo!
And I think after I'm taking Oldest Sister out for her birthday cause I have yet to do that.
I should probably wake up at a semi-decent hour so I can get started on some homework, but I guess that depends on when my internal clock wakes me up.
Cause sometimes I'll sleep 'til way late and get up, eat something fast and go to work.
But then there's times when I'm up at like 9 and can't go back to sleep.
Which is suck-ish, cause I rather enjoy sleeping in.
Oh well, I'll post some homework and then be done with it.
The only real assignments this week are discussion board stuff and a health resource analysis thing for the Library Goddess. We have to find a authentic website, print resource and community resource that someone can use for health information.
But the fun part is that we get to pick the patron and like give them qualities like mine will be a 24-year-old chick getting her Master's but she's suddenly diagnosed with like restless leg syndrome or something that sounds ridiculous but I'm sure is a serious problem.
It's just the commercials that are ridiculous.
Perhaps it's the writer in me, or just cause I'm a nerd, but I rather like assignments like these.
So that's the plan for tomorrow.
Not much to say about today other than the usual - it was dead cause it's a Sunday but then it picked up while he was at lunch and I was by myself - which is the norm as anyone who works/has worked there can tell you.
I have two volunteers that are supposed to start at the work branch tomorrow but I won't be there.
I trained them, but we'll see how much they remember.
I left detailed instructions, took up the whole board, and sent out an email to the staff to watch out for them. I'm sure they'll be fine.
Alright, in order to enjoy the sleeping in process I first have to fall asleep so I'm off. I'm sure I'll have plenty to talk about tomorrow. That usually happens when I do something with my family, we're full of characters.
Back in Time - Pitbull
what is it with him and Miami?
seriously?
still have yet to see this movie, gonna have to buy it when it comes out, already have the first two.
And yes, we did talk about Glee, but I haven't watched it since like 2 seasons ago so I'm a bit behind.
But it's okay cause my mom gives me updates every once in a while.
Like Quinn was in an accident.
And...
Okay, that's all I remember.
But half the good people graduated, but apparently they're still in it or something?
I don't know, I'm confused. Perhaps I'll watch a random episode on hulu and see if I can figure it out.
If not I'm sure there's an online summary somewhere.
It's one of those shows I just lost track of even though I was crazy obsessed at one point in my life.
Like Grey's.
And Bones.
and for a while The Closer.
But I caught up with the last one before the finale.
And Bones I'm still missing a few from last season but I have them taped.
So I'll watch them.
Or I'll buy it and watch them then.
There's just too many shows and I don't have time for them anymore.
I guess that happens when you get a life.
I do still watch NCIS, Castle and the Voice.
But the rest is DVR'd.
And half the time those are DVR'd, but I actually watch them, not let them sit for days and days.
I don't know where I'm going with this.
It's 2AM.
Oh yeah, I don't have to go in until 4 tomorrow, a-woohoo!
And I think after I'm taking Oldest Sister out for her birthday cause I have yet to do that.
I should probably wake up at a semi-decent hour so I can get started on some homework, but I guess that depends on when my internal clock wakes me up.
Cause sometimes I'll sleep 'til way late and get up, eat something fast and go to work.
But then there's times when I'm up at like 9 and can't go back to sleep.
Which is suck-ish, cause I rather enjoy sleeping in.
Oh well, I'll post some homework and then be done with it.
The only real assignments this week are discussion board stuff and a health resource analysis thing for the Library Goddess. We have to find a authentic website, print resource and community resource that someone can use for health information.
But the fun part is that we get to pick the patron and like give them qualities like mine will be a 24-year-old chick getting her Master's but she's suddenly diagnosed with like restless leg syndrome or something that sounds ridiculous but I'm sure is a serious problem.
It's just the commercials that are ridiculous.
Perhaps it's the writer in me, or just cause I'm a nerd, but I rather like assignments like these.
So that's the plan for tomorrow.
Not much to say about today other than the usual - it was dead cause it's a Sunday but then it picked up while he was at lunch and I was by myself - which is the norm as anyone who works/has worked there can tell you.
I have two volunteers that are supposed to start at the work branch tomorrow but I won't be there.
I trained them, but we'll see how much they remember.
I left detailed instructions, took up the whole board, and sent out an email to the staff to watch out for them. I'm sure they'll be fine.
Alright, in order to enjoy the sleeping in process I first have to fall asleep so I'm off. I'm sure I'll have plenty to talk about tomorrow. That usually happens when I do something with my family, we're full of characters.
Back in Time - Pitbull
what is it with him and Miami?
seriously?
still have yet to see this movie, gonna have to buy it when it comes out, already have the first two.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
"Why aren't you in the upper balcony?"
Moment of the day:
Walked into the professors office and went, "Whoa. I interviewed here."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
I'll get there in a minute.
Day like any other, woke up, went to work, updated the website, checked in a bunch of stuff cause there was no delivery yesterday. I'm starting to realize we took our old delivery guy for granted. Uh, what else? Oh did some major supplies stuff cause apparently I was way behind on that. Copied some application forms, used the guillotine chopper thing, then checked in even more stuff.
It was funny because - okay we have like a daily schedule and we have specific places to be each hour - and today it was like 2nd floor, PS2, circ workroom, Lab desk, then lunch, then I had like circ workroom, holds, off desk, and then ended at Youth Services so my afternoon was like on my own time. It was fantastic. I checked in a bunch of stuff but there were like 4 other people scheduled to be back there in the afternoon so most of my time was spent on supplies and volunteer stuff.
Trying to come up with a list of stuff to do for volunteers who can't shelve. I have a lady coming in on Tuesday and the only things I can think of that she might be interested in is cleaning displays and maybe edging shelves. Cause she'll be a long term adult volunteer and I'm guessing things like sharpening pencils and sorting colored strips will be of little interest to her.
Ideas?
So after work I headed over to one of our other branches because my professor is the branch manager there. I walk in her office and go whoa. Flashbacks. Cause that's where I interviewed to make the temp job permanent. The first interview I did, well that was with Queen of the Known Universe and Super Librarian Status in the basement of the work branch. Immediately following that was with my Glee-Loving Boss and Girlscout at the home branch. Third came with Superwoman in her office and that was for the 20 hour summer temp job. Then the library judge - as he now goes by - took some time off so I stayed 'til October and that's when they decided they needed two more people - one at the work branch and one at the branch I went to tonight - so they panel interviewed me basically in that office and I got the work branch job.
Which was my preference.
Then they panel interviewed me again - same people, different office this time it was back to Superwoman's - to make the 20 hours permanent turn into 40 hours permanent.
Anyway, I was like, "i interviewed in this office" and she was totally lost cause I don't currently work there.
She rocks. For serious.
Like, we were supposed to have class on Saturday but I couldn't make it, which was okay because originally there was no class scheduled that day and when they added a different one they said we could meet with her to make up for it if we couldn't make it. Since I had the wedding I chose to go to that and just meet with her later. The class on Saturday was supposed to go 8:30-2:30. I got off work at 6:05 tonight, got there at about 6:20, I think we were done by 7:40.
But it's all html stuff. Actually it's pretty cool, by the end of the assignment I'll be able to type this entire thing on html instead of switching back and forth between that and composition mode. Would make my life a bit easier, but I'll have to learn all the codes. Or learn to copy and paste them from the tutorial websites they gave us links to.
I remember we built our own websites in high school, but that was like sophomore year Computer Applications with Tutor Bode like 5 years ago. I remember something about typing in specific numbers for colored texts and backgrounds but for the life of me I don't remember what they were. I do remember building a sweet house with an awesome colorful dance floor, plus some flyers for a party with my fellow PEUBH Juwanna.
Cause we were the Popular Evil Ugly Bitchy Hags.
Don't ask.
It's a roommate thing.
We had a lot of those.
Alright, I'm aware that this post was a complete and utter waste of your time and I'm totally boring and about to get more boring cause the second I log off here I'm back to homework.
So watch this, it will make up for all of my boringness.
Finesse Mitchell talks about Prince
"why are ya'll up there?"
"how the hell you get down there?"
"forget all that, can you get to me in case something go on down here?!"
Watch it, you'll love it.
Shout out of the day: To you, unshaven young dude with the white t-shirt and baggy jeans running through traffic to make it to the parking garage. I know you thought the chick you passed was good looking and had to turn around to take another look but you almost got ran down by a bus so perhaps you should watch where you're going instead of leering at strangers.
And that's all I got. Have a good one.
Walked into the professors office and went, "Whoa. I interviewed here."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
I'll get there in a minute.
Day like any other, woke up, went to work, updated the website, checked in a bunch of stuff cause there was no delivery yesterday. I'm starting to realize we took our old delivery guy for granted. Uh, what else? Oh did some major supplies stuff cause apparently I was way behind on that. Copied some application forms, used the guillotine chopper thing, then checked in even more stuff.
It was funny because - okay we have like a daily schedule and we have specific places to be each hour - and today it was like 2nd floor, PS2, circ workroom, Lab desk, then lunch, then I had like circ workroom, holds, off desk, and then ended at Youth Services so my afternoon was like on my own time. It was fantastic. I checked in a bunch of stuff but there were like 4 other people scheduled to be back there in the afternoon so most of my time was spent on supplies and volunteer stuff.
Trying to come up with a list of stuff to do for volunteers who can't shelve. I have a lady coming in on Tuesday and the only things I can think of that she might be interested in is cleaning displays and maybe edging shelves. Cause she'll be a long term adult volunteer and I'm guessing things like sharpening pencils and sorting colored strips will be of little interest to her.
Ideas?
So after work I headed over to one of our other branches because my professor is the branch manager there. I walk in her office and go whoa. Flashbacks. Cause that's where I interviewed to make the temp job permanent. The first interview I did, well that was with Queen of the Known Universe and Super Librarian Status in the basement of the work branch. Immediately following that was with my Glee-Loving Boss and Girlscout at the home branch. Third came with Superwoman in her office and that was for the 20 hour summer temp job. Then the library judge - as he now goes by - took some time off so I stayed 'til October and that's when they decided they needed two more people - one at the work branch and one at the branch I went to tonight - so they panel interviewed me basically in that office and I got the work branch job.
Which was my preference.
Then they panel interviewed me again - same people, different office this time it was back to Superwoman's - to make the 20 hours permanent turn into 40 hours permanent.
Anyway, I was like, "i interviewed in this office" and she was totally lost cause I don't currently work there.
She rocks. For serious.
Like, we were supposed to have class on Saturday but I couldn't make it, which was okay because originally there was no class scheduled that day and when they added a different one they said we could meet with her to make up for it if we couldn't make it. Since I had the wedding I chose to go to that and just meet with her later. The class on Saturday was supposed to go 8:30-2:30. I got off work at 6:05 tonight, got there at about 6:20, I think we were done by 7:40.
But it's all html stuff. Actually it's pretty cool, by the end of the assignment I'll be able to type this entire thing on html instead of switching back and forth between that and composition mode. Would make my life a bit easier, but I'll have to learn all the codes. Or learn to copy and paste them from the tutorial websites they gave us links to.
I remember we built our own websites in high school, but that was like sophomore year Computer Applications with Tutor Bode like 5 years ago. I remember something about typing in specific numbers for colored texts and backgrounds but for the life of me I don't remember what they were. I do remember building a sweet house with an awesome colorful dance floor, plus some flyers for a party with my fellow PEUBH Juwanna.
Cause we were the Popular Evil Ugly Bitchy Hags.
Don't ask.
It's a roommate thing.
We had a lot of those.
Alright, I'm aware that this post was a complete and utter waste of your time and I'm totally boring and about to get more boring cause the second I log off here I'm back to homework.
So watch this, it will make up for all of my boringness.
Finesse Mitchell talks about Prince
"why are ya'll up there?"
"how the hell you get down there?"
"forget all that, can you get to me in case something go on down here?!"
Watch it, you'll love it.
Shout out of the day: To you, unshaven young dude with the white t-shirt and baggy jeans running through traffic to make it to the parking garage. I know you thought the chick you passed was good looking and had to turn around to take another look but you almost got ran down by a bus so perhaps you should watch where you're going instead of leering at strangers.
And that's all I got. Have a good one.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
i want u back, i want u back, want-want-u-want-u back, uh!
Where do I start?
Jammed all day at the home branch with the Glee-Loving Boss and my ex-aide-partner-in-crime. Was cool catching up and all that, and actually massively busy, especially when he went to lunch and I was by myself. But isn't that how it always works.
No massive takeovers or small fires, just some kids who talked endlessly. So I talked them into joining the summer reading program and sent them to the volunteer. And it worked. But then they came back.
After they left it got pretty quiet and he was back to start the movie. I took off at 6, carpooled to my college town with Oldest Sister and Squirt. She babysat for Second Sister while we hit up the new Mexican place. It was awesome. Got a huge pitcher of mango margaritas. And got through like half of it. And there were three of us.
And what's more amusing is we're talking and this old dude at the table next to us comes over and gives us crap about not being able to finish it. So I downed some. Gave me a brainfreeze, my third of the night. But there was still at least a fourth of a pitcher left, and it was pure alcohol you could see the division.
Their table was amusing, it was one of the chicks birthdays and they sombrero-d her and put whip-cream on her face. And sang. Remind me not to go there on my birthday.
Had some fun, interesting stories and all that, and I was only scarred for life once which is a new record so I'd call it a victory.
Quotes of the night:
-"Everybody has an uncle Johnny." So, my grandma - dad's mom - was a bit stubborn. Okay, a bit more than a bit. My favorite quotation of hers comes from when she refused to go downstairs because of a tornado warning. "Wake me when it's in the yard." I still quote it cause seriously, there's been some sort of storm warning almost every other day for weeks. Wake me when it's in the yard. Then I'll run like hell.
Anyway, she was stubborn. We have no idea what Uncle Johnny did, but she would not let him live it down. And as we were being all philosophical and all that crap, we've decided that pretty much everyone has an Uncle Johnny in their lives. Someone who drives them mad to the point of frustration.
And I liked the quote so I'm gonna put it in something. Anecdote of some sorts, and leave it unexplained. See what happens. If I actually have time to write anything anytime soon. Though I do only work 4-6 tomorrow, maybe I'll pull up a word doc and continue on with the apartment story. Geez, apartment story, been a while. I do have thoughts about all the tenants, I just gotta actually put them down on paper. Or virtual paper at least. Shitty first drafts, write down everything you can get rid of it later.
This made more sense in my head before I started typing, ignore that and go with these ones.
Oldest Sister: "She was a S-L-U-T. I don't know why I'm whispering."
Second Sister: "Carrie can spell."
There's always a mass amount of sarcasm that goes with dinners like these. And a mass amount of children stories. Apparently even when their children aren't around they still feel compelled to censor themselves. Mostly. Then get them some liquor and that goes away. Though the censorship wouldn't do much good anyway as the one who spelled it out is the one with kids aged 12 and 14. Think they can spell that.
Their kids are quite humorous. We talked a lot about them and what they've got going on, reminiscing of their moments of snarkyness. I remember one time, Bubby was like five, and he said "Crap" and I told him he was too young to say crap. He asked what he was supposed to say instead and I said something like "oh carrots" or "oh potatoes" to which he replied "you're a potato" and I probably said something about him being carrots, I think there was something about fried cheese thrown in their somewhere and it went back and forth for a while and then he hit me with, "You don't even have any brains, there's just spiders crawling around up in there."
I died. And crowned him king of the comeback.
He's clever like that, do not underestimate the kid. He's full of one-liners.
What else have we got from tonight? Oh yeah, so we were pulling up to the restaurant and this song started to play and I was explaining it to Second Sister as she had never heard it and she was like whatever. And then we were driving to her place and it started playing on the radio and oh my god, every time the chick grunts we cracked up.
too funny.
This is the American version, in the UK one there's a kid rapper and the video is a bit more um, UK. Interesting interpretations as the UK one is all fancy with photos and digital effects, and this one is like punk rock meets 50's diner. Americana.
Alright I'm out for the night. Sleeping in twice in three days man, I could get used to this. Not that it will happen again anytime soon. I'm out until around 3ish as I don't go in until 4. Don't freak out if I don't answer my phone until after noon. I'm sleepin' in! and probably watching some Dark Shadows, gotta get through more ILL's so I can request Freakazoid and Dexter's Lab.
...in his La-BORE-a-TORE-y
Jammed all day at the home branch with the Glee-Loving Boss and my ex-aide-partner-in-crime. Was cool catching up and all that, and actually massively busy, especially when he went to lunch and I was by myself. But isn't that how it always works.
No massive takeovers or small fires, just some kids who talked endlessly. So I talked them into joining the summer reading program and sent them to the volunteer. And it worked. But then they came back.
After they left it got pretty quiet and he was back to start the movie. I took off at 6, carpooled to my college town with Oldest Sister and Squirt. She babysat for Second Sister while we hit up the new Mexican place. It was awesome. Got a huge pitcher of mango margaritas. And got through like half of it. And there were three of us.
And what's more amusing is we're talking and this old dude at the table next to us comes over and gives us crap about not being able to finish it. So I downed some. Gave me a brainfreeze, my third of the night. But there was still at least a fourth of a pitcher left, and it was pure alcohol you could see the division.
Their table was amusing, it was one of the chicks birthdays and they sombrero-d her and put whip-cream on her face. And sang. Remind me not to go there on my birthday.
Had some fun, interesting stories and all that, and I was only scarred for life once which is a new record so I'd call it a victory.
Quotes of the night:
-"Everybody has an uncle Johnny." So, my grandma - dad's mom - was a bit stubborn. Okay, a bit more than a bit. My favorite quotation of hers comes from when she refused to go downstairs because of a tornado warning. "Wake me when it's in the yard." I still quote it cause seriously, there's been some sort of storm warning almost every other day for weeks. Wake me when it's in the yard. Then I'll run like hell.
Anyway, she was stubborn. We have no idea what Uncle Johnny did, but she would not let him live it down. And as we were being all philosophical and all that crap, we've decided that pretty much everyone has an Uncle Johnny in their lives. Someone who drives them mad to the point of frustration.
And I liked the quote so I'm gonna put it in something. Anecdote of some sorts, and leave it unexplained. See what happens. If I actually have time to write anything anytime soon. Though I do only work 4-6 tomorrow, maybe I'll pull up a word doc and continue on with the apartment story. Geez, apartment story, been a while. I do have thoughts about all the tenants, I just gotta actually put them down on paper. Or virtual paper at least. Shitty first drafts, write down everything you can get rid of it later.
This made more sense in my head before I started typing, ignore that and go with these ones.
Oldest Sister: "She was a S-L-U-T. I don't know why I'm whispering."
Second Sister: "Carrie can spell."
There's always a mass amount of sarcasm that goes with dinners like these. And a mass amount of children stories. Apparently even when their children aren't around they still feel compelled to censor themselves. Mostly. Then get them some liquor and that goes away. Though the censorship wouldn't do much good anyway as the one who spelled it out is the one with kids aged 12 and 14. Think they can spell that.
Their kids are quite humorous. We talked a lot about them and what they've got going on, reminiscing of their moments of snarkyness. I remember one time, Bubby was like five, and he said "Crap" and I told him he was too young to say crap. He asked what he was supposed to say instead and I said something like "oh carrots" or "oh potatoes" to which he replied "you're a potato" and I probably said something about him being carrots, I think there was something about fried cheese thrown in their somewhere and it went back and forth for a while and then he hit me with, "You don't even have any brains, there's just spiders crawling around up in there."
I died. And crowned him king of the comeback.
He's clever like that, do not underestimate the kid. He's full of one-liners.
What else have we got from tonight? Oh yeah, so we were pulling up to the restaurant and this song started to play and I was explaining it to Second Sister as she had never heard it and she was like whatever. And then we were driving to her place and it started playing on the radio and oh my god, every time the chick grunts we cracked up.
too funny.
This is the American version, in the UK one there's a kid rapper and the video is a bit more um, UK. Interesting interpretations as the UK one is all fancy with photos and digital effects, and this one is like punk rock meets 50's diner. Americana.
Alright I'm out for the night. Sleeping in twice in three days man, I could get used to this. Not that it will happen again anytime soon. I'm out until around 3ish as I don't go in until 4. Don't freak out if I don't answer my phone until after noon. I'm sleepin' in! and probably watching some Dark Shadows, gotta get through more ILL's so I can request Freakazoid and Dexter's Lab.
...in his La-BORE-a-TORE-y
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Freakin' Birds.
What a weirdass day.
No, seriously, what a weirdass day.
Where do I begin?
Woke up with still no air-conditioning so I got to call that in. Luckily our maintenance people are fantastic and it was fixed by the time I got home, needed a new fan or something.
Go to work, first thing was the staff meeting. Got to explain the prizes for the teen's summer reading program. They get a free betta fish. How cool is that? And ice cream and Saltdogs tickets and Amigos coupon, etc.
So that was fine.
Everything at work was fine up until like 10. Which is when the staff meeting ended and we opened.
After that I was toast.
Dropped an entire stack of DVDs, discs flying everywhere. That was smooth.
I screwed up telling patrons due dates twice. And I only helped two patrons at the desk that hour.
Though I did get it right immediately after I screwed it over.
But still, obnoxious. I just figured it was cause I was caffeine-less. So I went for a Mountain Dew assuming all will be healed.
...
...
...
All was not healed.
Okay.
So here's the kicker.
Off-desk hour, usually I spend stocking supplies. Which was my intended goal, so I walk into the backroom and it was just like any other time I walk in the backroom you know daily - actually like 8 times daily - except this time I look over and there's a bird sitting on one of the bookdrop carts.
Me, thinking this is a prank because there's a fake bird somewhere in the building and I know that cause it scared the crap out of me the first time, decide to go check it out.
And I'm walking and I get closer and then... it moved.
I freaked.
Ran to the safety of Queen of the Known Universe and Info-Man at the front desk.
They proceeded to make fun of me.
And told me to call animal control/Superwoman as she was the supervisor on duty that hour.
But she was at lunch, and it was just a bird, so I went with the guard instead.
This guard is a big tall guy, fought in wars, knows lots about weapons and all that so I figured I was safe.
We go to the backroom and devise a plan. Clear a path to the outside door - which was propped open cause the delivery man was there - and scare him towards it.
Sounds like a fine plan, right?
Problem is that birds are uncooperative.
The guard walked towards it making loud noises and waving his arms and the freakin' thing flies STRAIGHT AT ME! Who was standing NOWHERE NEAR THE DOOR WE WERE ATTEMPTING TO LEAD IT TO.
So I'm like crouched in a corner screaming bloody murder, the guard starts chasing the bird around the backroom, it flies all over the place except the direction we want it, and leaving messes wherever it goes - disgusting and I'll get there I promise - finally it flies into the back hallway. Which is good cause that's halfway to the door.
Then it decides to hide in a corner.
At that point I stayed the heck away from the back hallway. Now I just hear the guard yelling, bird wings flapping, and the delivery guy laughing his ass off. I round the corner, still freaking out, and see the door slam with the bird on the other side of it.
Goal.
But oh my god.
Seriously.
So, I go out to the desk still a bit freaked, actually I was basically freaked for the rest of the day but for various other reasons, and Info-Man hits me with "now we know what you're afraid of" implying there will be pranks.
Which I'm prepared for, I had a prank war going with Glee-Loving Boss until I moved to the work branch full time.
But the thing is I'm not scared of birds.
I'm just not a fan of them flying in my direction.
Which I explained to BossLady when she returned from lunch - not Superwoman, BossLady aka my immediate supervisor. I give her a tour of the backroom and all the places the bird went and she resolved to cleaning it up....after she chased me with it. Long story.
I refused to touch it cause I was still in that freak-out mindstate so I followed her around the room and handed her sanitizing wipes. Meanwhile the intern was laughing.
There was a lot of laughing about the incident.
I can now.
I told Mentor "it scared the crap out of me."
and she came back with "it scared the crap out of him too."
Anyway, the rest of the day like every time I opened a door or my locker I paused expecting stuff to fly out at me.
And sadly, that's not the end to the weirdness of today.
So I was in charge of the teen summer reading program today aka "Monster 'Dos" where the College of Hair Design people came and gave a bunch of kids colored hair and scary hairdos that they'll go home, scare their parents with and the parents will probably come back next time and be like, what the heck were you thinking?
Anyway, so I introduced a couple of my TAB kids who talked about TAB and joining and all the stuff we do.
I've seriously had 5 new members within the past two weeks.
And of course we don't meet again until September so there's gonna be a lot of reminder emails and phone calls after the summer.
The event went off without a hitch, and as there was time at the end the kids talked me into getting my hair colored.
Now I have orange lightning bolts with green stars.
They rock and I'm keeping them for the game tomorrow. Gonna rock it out at the stadium.
And since I had to do it we talked Mentor and another one of my youth services supervisors who I joke around a lot with - she's the one I always show my torn up leg to after I play softball cause she screams and tells me to wear pants - into doing it. She got pink hair and Mentor got a green star.
A lot of the little kids got some pretty crazy big hair but I'm not so big on that. Sticking with the lightning bolts and stars for now.
Which reminds me I gotta get my hair dyed before camp. They won't recognize me without it.
And my sideway hat.
Okay, so after work there's rain and hail and major wind, lots of lightning and thunder, actually still doing it. Hope I get this posted before the power goes out or something.
But I managed to get all my homework done and posted and I'm good until class on Saturday.
Will sleep well tonight with my air-conditioner fixed, though I'm guessing I'll have nightmares about birds or something.
Feel like my aunt.
One of the "favorite aunties" is deathly afraid of birds.
Probably partially my father's fault. He used to talk the other "favorite auntie" into chasing her with chickens when they were little.
Speaking of fun aunties, get to jam tomorrow with the Cool Aunt and my two cousins as we're going to the OPENING GAME for the COLLEGE WORLD SERIES! Woohoo!
It'll probably rain, it always does. First year we went and there was a 2 hour rain delay, but last year it only rained a little in the morning and then it was great all day.
Game starts at 4 but we like to go early, hit all the booths, walk around and take pictures. Oh yeah, gotta charge my camera.
So I'm working for two hours tomorrow then taking off to change, grab the camera, and meet up with them.
Stoked.
I need some new shirts.
Oh, irony of the day?
Was wearing a Batman shirt today.
Was tragically scared of winged creatures and totally not a superhero.
Will do better tomorrow.
I know, this post was super long compared to most recent ones. And, if you didn't read the above madness I'll sum it up for you now:
Bird in the Backroom
Not cool - Bird flies at you.
Cool - Guard comes to rescue.
Not cool - Bird poop all over.
Cool - Supervisor cleans up poop so I don't have to.
Not cool - Supervisor proceeds to chase me with said poop.
Cool - Anecdote to tell at work.
Not cool - Coworkers threaten bird pranks.
And then some stuff about lightning bolts and stars and storms and the college world series opener tomorrow.
There you go.
Video of the Day:
"The Birds" in 1 minute and 40 seconds
words cannot express how much i love that this is paired with kill bill music.
Freakin' birds.
No, seriously, what a weirdass day.
Where do I begin?
Woke up with still no air-conditioning so I got to call that in. Luckily our maintenance people are fantastic and it was fixed by the time I got home, needed a new fan or something.
Go to work, first thing was the staff meeting. Got to explain the prizes for the teen's summer reading program. They get a free betta fish. How cool is that? And ice cream and Saltdogs tickets and Amigos coupon, etc.
So that was fine.
Everything at work was fine up until like 10. Which is when the staff meeting ended and we opened.
After that I was toast.
Dropped an entire stack of DVDs, discs flying everywhere. That was smooth.
I screwed up telling patrons due dates twice. And I only helped two patrons at the desk that hour.
Though I did get it right immediately after I screwed it over.
But still, obnoxious. I just figured it was cause I was caffeine-less. So I went for a Mountain Dew assuming all will be healed.
...
...
...
All was not healed.
Okay.
So here's the kicker.
Off-desk hour, usually I spend stocking supplies. Which was my intended goal, so I walk into the backroom and it was just like any other time I walk in the backroom you know daily - actually like 8 times daily - except this time I look over and there's a bird sitting on one of the bookdrop carts.
Me, thinking this is a prank because there's a fake bird somewhere in the building and I know that cause it scared the crap out of me the first time, decide to go check it out.
And I'm walking and I get closer and then... it moved.
Ran to the safety of Queen of the Known Universe and Info-Man at the front desk.
They proceeded to make fun of me.
And told me to call animal control/Superwoman as she was the supervisor on duty that hour.
But she was at lunch, and it was just a bird, so I went with the guard instead.
This guard is a big tall guy, fought in wars, knows lots about weapons and all that so I figured I was safe.
We go to the backroom and devise a plan. Clear a path to the outside door - which was propped open cause the delivery man was there - and scare him towards it.
Sounds like a fine plan, right?
Problem is that birds are uncooperative.
The guard walked towards it making loud noises and waving his arms and the freakin' thing flies STRAIGHT AT ME! Who was standing NOWHERE NEAR THE DOOR WE WERE ATTEMPTING TO LEAD IT TO.
So I'm like crouched in a corner screaming bloody murder, the guard starts chasing the bird around the backroom, it flies all over the place except the direction we want it, and leaving messes wherever it goes - disgusting and I'll get there I promise - finally it flies into the back hallway. Which is good cause that's halfway to the door.
Then it decides to hide in a corner.
At that point I stayed the heck away from the back hallway. Now I just hear the guard yelling, bird wings flapping, and the delivery guy laughing his ass off. I round the corner, still freaking out, and see the door slam with the bird on the other side of it.
Goal.
But oh my god.
Seriously.
So, I go out to the desk still a bit freaked, actually I was basically freaked for the rest of the day but for various other reasons, and Info-Man hits me with "now we know what you're afraid of" implying there will be pranks.
Which I'm prepared for, I had a prank war going with Glee-Loving Boss until I moved to the work branch full time.
But the thing is I'm not scared of birds.
I'm just not a fan of them flying in my direction.
Which I explained to BossLady when she returned from lunch - not Superwoman, BossLady aka my immediate supervisor. I give her a tour of the backroom and all the places the bird went and she resolved to cleaning it up....after she chased me with it. Long story.
I refused to touch it cause I was still in that freak-out mindstate so I followed her around the room and handed her sanitizing wipes. Meanwhile the intern was laughing.
There was a lot of laughing about the incident.
I can now.
I told Mentor "it scared the crap out of me."
and she came back with "it scared the crap out of him too."
Anyway, the rest of the day like every time I opened a door or my locker I paused expecting stuff to fly out at me.
And sadly, that's not the end to the weirdness of today.
So I was in charge of the teen summer reading program today aka "Monster 'Dos" where the College of Hair Design people came and gave a bunch of kids colored hair and scary hairdos that they'll go home, scare their parents with and the parents will probably come back next time and be like, what the heck were you thinking?
Anyway, so I introduced a couple of my TAB kids who talked about TAB and joining and all the stuff we do.
I've seriously had 5 new members within the past two weeks.
And of course we don't meet again until September so there's gonna be a lot of reminder emails and phone calls after the summer.
The event went off without a hitch, and as there was time at the end the kids talked me into getting my hair colored.
Now I have orange lightning bolts with green stars.
They rock and I'm keeping them for the game tomorrow. Gonna rock it out at the stadium.
And since I had to do it we talked Mentor and another one of my youth services supervisors who I joke around a lot with - she's the one I always show my torn up leg to after I play softball cause she screams and tells me to wear pants - into doing it. She got pink hair and Mentor got a green star.
A lot of the little kids got some pretty crazy big hair but I'm not so big on that. Sticking with the lightning bolts and stars for now.
Which reminds me I gotta get my hair dyed before camp. They won't recognize me without it.
And my sideway hat.
Okay, so after work there's rain and hail and major wind, lots of lightning and thunder, actually still doing it. Hope I get this posted before the power goes out or something.
But I managed to get all my homework done and posted and I'm good until class on Saturday.
Will sleep well tonight with my air-conditioner fixed, though I'm guessing I'll have nightmares about birds or something.
Feel like my aunt.
One of the "favorite aunties" is deathly afraid of birds.
Probably partially my father's fault. He used to talk the other "favorite auntie" into chasing her with chickens when they were little.
Speaking of fun aunties, get to jam tomorrow with the Cool Aunt and my two cousins as we're going to the OPENING GAME for the COLLEGE WORLD SERIES! Woohoo!
It'll probably rain, it always does. First year we went and there was a 2 hour rain delay, but last year it only rained a little in the morning and then it was great all day.
Game starts at 4 but we like to go early, hit all the booths, walk around and take pictures. Oh yeah, gotta charge my camera.
So I'm working for two hours tomorrow then taking off to change, grab the camera, and meet up with them.
Stoked.
I need some new shirts.
Oh, irony of the day?
Was wearing a Batman shirt today.
Was tragically scared of winged creatures and totally not a superhero.
Will do better tomorrow.
I know, this post was super long compared to most recent ones. And, if you didn't read the above madness I'll sum it up for you now:
Bird in the Backroom
Not cool - Bird flies at you.
Cool - Guard comes to rescue.
Not cool - Bird poop all over.
Cool - Supervisor cleans up poop so I don't have to.
Not cool - Supervisor proceeds to chase me with said poop.
Cool - Anecdote to tell at work.
Not cool - Coworkers threaten bird pranks.
And then some stuff about lightning bolts and stars and storms and the college world series opener tomorrow.
There you go.
Video of the Day:
"The Birds" in 1 minute and 40 seconds
words cannot express how much i love that this is paired with kill bill music.
Freakin' birds.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
singing my life with his words...
Well now I officially feel old.
But still inspired.
Today marked my two year employment with the library.
Originally I was at one, then two, now back to one but it's the other one, if that makes sense.
I started as an Aide at the home branch exactly two years ago today, so it was a happy coincidence that I got to spend all day there today with my former bosses, one scheduled (Glee-Loving Boss) and one that stopped by (Sensei).
Took me back a bit, I still remember my first big assignment on the new job. Three hole punching the bottoms of plastic library bags because that way if a kid puts one over their head they'll still be able to breathe.
It was some sort of legal issue I guess.
I can still picture the look on Glee-Loving Boss's face when he said and I quote, "I know this is ridiculous but..." So I spent the majority of the day in the backroom poking holes into bags and more of the same the next day, except it was me and the other aide - the kid who's no longer a kid - and this time we put bookmarks in the bags.
So you know, if they decided to put it over their head they'd at least be able to look at something pretty whilst still being able to breathe because there are holes for that.
After that it was sorting carts, well items on carts, cause if you put them in the right order on the cart you can put them on the right order on the shelf.
And even if you couldn't do that they all had orange tags in them so they'd be easy to find on the shelves when the boss made the rounds.
But I got to find my purpose in life in the process and meet some pretty great people along the way.
So I brought cookies for the backroom. Half of them are gone by now, and with Space Cadet and her carb addiction who knows if there will be any left by the morning. HA!
I know this post should be doubly long as I skipped out last night.
To be fair I konked out at like 10, and this is even after the boyfriend came to visit.
I was zonked, for serious.
But today I was actually awake and coherent the whole day.
Which was good because at around 4:30 all hell broke loose.
No seriously, we went from 5 people to around 60 all needing help at once. It was ridiculously busy and Glee-Loving Boss and myself envisioned our recovery shift getting there at 6 and them seeing us flee the building for the sake of sanity.
But we stuck it out. We're tough like that. Besides it all calmed down by the time they got there and I got to tell Space Cadet all about life at its current state, aka meeting the parentals, Vegas... apparently the fact that I have a boyfriend and the fact that he's still around is widely appealing.
I shall have to tell him that later.
Unless of course he reads this, then I'm telling him now.
So if you're reading this, congratulations, people like you and are glad you're still around.
If not then I'm talking to myself, which really wouldn't be a shock factor.
Scale of Awesome time.
So I watched We Bought A Zoo.
Simply fantastic.
Real heart-warmer and all that, but it was comedic and real and just a really good root for the underdogs kind of story.
Basically his wife dies and everything around the house and around town reminds him of her so when his son is expelled they go house shopping and find this house that's perfect, only catch is that it's a zoo. And by buying the land he is also buying the zoo. So he decides to reinstate it to its former glory and all that with a lot of bumps along the road.
I'm gonna give it about a 9/10, and I highly recommend it. Matt Damon is great, showing he can do comedy, drama and action - not action in this but you know you've got Bourne and all that.
Speaking of Bourne, am I the only one looking forward to the new Bourne movie? I love Jeremy Renner.
I know he's not Jason Bourne! But that's the point!! He's a different agent entirely, stop freaking out! They'll bring Matt Damon back when he's ready to do another movie. Geez crazies.
Sorry, where was I? Oh right, Scarlett Johansson is quickly rising in the Scale of Awesome meter of you know awesomeness and she's like serious zookeeper woman in this who has no outside life cause she's always there. And then you've got Thomas Haden Church as the protective accountant brother, a bunch of crazy staff members, plus the two kids who couldn't be more different from each other and it's all based on a true story! With a book to go with it!
And the line in the trailer about him having more hair than the other dads is a joke since the actual Benjamin Mee is in fact bald.
I love his line about 20 seconds of insane courage, great life motto.
So go watch it. Rent it, buy it, check it out, whatever, just do it cause it's fantastic.
I'm excited, I get to semi-sleep in tomorrow. Sort of. I start late cause I'm off late, helping out with a middle school visit that isn't actually a school visit, it sounds a bit like a school carnival or end of the year event thing, so we're going to promote library stuff I guess. I've never done one before so I guess I'll find out.
But I've got the awesomeness that is Girlscout with me so she'll get me through it. Plus I think the intern is going which is cool as she's in the same masters program I'm in. Seems pretty cool so far so it should be fun.
Things on my to-do-list:
Yes the ever-growing and never disappearing to-do-list.
-Finish editing friends stories, making that a priority as it took me like 5 months to get through one and that's awful. Usually it's more like 2 weeks but apparently library life keeps me pretty busy.
-Format Camp J songbook, how long has that been on the list that I've been putting off? Seriously? Just do it woman, the stuff is already uploaded all you have to do is space out the notes to match the lyrics.
-Buy 200 juice boxes. Okay that one's a little more complicated, but it's for the kickoff, and I also need to buy more candycorn while I'm at it. Also for the kickoff, don't ask I'm sure I'll ramble plenty about it when it comes around. Target man, Target. Screw HyVee I tried that already. Go here: Sharkey walks the plank
-Come up with Camp J application form that one I also have a deadline for since the meeting is on Saturday afternoon. I'm stoked! We're thinking of driving out to camp to check out the new digs. They built a new cafeteria/craft building with storm shelters and air conditioning. Now everyone's gonna wanna work in the kitchen and that never happens.
I'm sure there's more but I'm totally blanking.
I should sleep, as exciting as sleeping in sounds you have to actually fall asleep for it to take place.
"Yesterday" Adam Levine and Tony Lucca
love it.
"Killing Me Softly" Katrina Parker
he picked tony anyway, but i thought katrina was great, really grew on me throughout the competition.
but i'm all for the underdogs.
But still inspired.
Today marked my two year employment with the library.
Originally I was at one, then two, now back to one but it's the other one, if that makes sense.
I started as an Aide at the home branch exactly two years ago today, so it was a happy coincidence that I got to spend all day there today with my former bosses, one scheduled (Glee-Loving Boss) and one that stopped by (Sensei).
Took me back a bit, I still remember my first big assignment on the new job. Three hole punching the bottoms of plastic library bags because that way if a kid puts one over their head they'll still be able to breathe.
It was some sort of legal issue I guess.
I can still picture the look on Glee-Loving Boss's face when he said and I quote, "I know this is ridiculous but..." So I spent the majority of the day in the backroom poking holes into bags and more of the same the next day, except it was me and the other aide - the kid who's no longer a kid - and this time we put bookmarks in the bags.
So you know, if they decided to put it over their head they'd at least be able to look at something pretty whilst still being able to breathe because there are holes for that.
After that it was sorting carts, well items on carts, cause if you put them in the right order on the cart you can put them on the right order on the shelf.
And even if you couldn't do that they all had orange tags in them so they'd be easy to find on the shelves when the boss made the rounds.
But I got to find my purpose in life in the process and meet some pretty great people along the way.
So I brought cookies for the backroom. Half of them are gone by now, and with Space Cadet and her carb addiction who knows if there will be any left by the morning. HA!
I know this post should be doubly long as I skipped out last night.
To be fair I konked out at like 10, and this is even after the boyfriend came to visit.
I was zonked, for serious.
But today I was actually awake and coherent the whole day.
Which was good because at around 4:30 all hell broke loose.
No seriously, we went from 5 people to around 60 all needing help at once. It was ridiculously busy and Glee-Loving Boss and myself envisioned our recovery shift getting there at 6 and them seeing us flee the building for the sake of sanity.
But we stuck it out. We're tough like that. Besides it all calmed down by the time they got there and I got to tell Space Cadet all about life at its current state, aka meeting the parentals, Vegas... apparently the fact that I have a boyfriend and the fact that he's still around is widely appealing.
I shall have to tell him that later.
Unless of course he reads this, then I'm telling him now.
So if you're reading this, congratulations, people like you and are glad you're still around.
If not then I'm talking to myself, which really wouldn't be a shock factor.
Scale of Awesome time.
So I watched We Bought A Zoo.
Simply fantastic.
Real heart-warmer and all that, but it was comedic and real and just a really good root for the underdogs kind of story.
Basically his wife dies and everything around the house and around town reminds him of her so when his son is expelled they go house shopping and find this house that's perfect, only catch is that it's a zoo. And by buying the land he is also buying the zoo. So he decides to reinstate it to its former glory and all that with a lot of bumps along the road.
I'm gonna give it about a 9/10, and I highly recommend it. Matt Damon is great, showing he can do comedy, drama and action - not action in this but you know you've got Bourne and all that.
Speaking of Bourne, am I the only one looking forward to the new Bourne movie? I love Jeremy Renner.
I know he's not Jason Bourne! But that's the point!! He's a different agent entirely, stop freaking out! They'll bring Matt Damon back when he's ready to do another movie. Geez crazies.
Sorry, where was I? Oh right, Scarlett Johansson is quickly rising in the Scale of Awesome meter of you know awesomeness and she's like serious zookeeper woman in this who has no outside life cause she's always there. And then you've got Thomas Haden Church as the protective accountant brother, a bunch of crazy staff members, plus the two kids who couldn't be more different from each other and it's all based on a true story! With a book to go with it!
And the line in the trailer about him having more hair than the other dads is a joke since the actual Benjamin Mee is in fact bald.
I love his line about 20 seconds of insane courage, great life motto.
So go watch it. Rent it, buy it, check it out, whatever, just do it cause it's fantastic.
I'm excited, I get to semi-sleep in tomorrow. Sort of. I start late cause I'm off late, helping out with a middle school visit that isn't actually a school visit, it sounds a bit like a school carnival or end of the year event thing, so we're going to promote library stuff I guess. I've never done one before so I guess I'll find out.
But I've got the awesomeness that is Girlscout with me so she'll get me through it. Plus I think the intern is going which is cool as she's in the same masters program I'm in. Seems pretty cool so far so it should be fun.
Things on my to-do-list:
Yes the ever-growing and never disappearing to-do-list.
-Finish editing friends stories, making that a priority as it took me like 5 months to get through one and that's awful. Usually it's more like 2 weeks but apparently library life keeps me pretty busy.
-Format Camp J songbook, how long has that been on the list that I've been putting off? Seriously? Just do it woman, the stuff is already uploaded all you have to do is space out the notes to match the lyrics.
-Buy 200 juice boxes. Okay that one's a little more complicated, but it's for the kickoff, and I also need to buy more candycorn while I'm at it. Also for the kickoff, don't ask I'm sure I'll ramble plenty about it when it comes around. Target man, Target. Screw HyVee I tried that already. Go here: Sharkey walks the plank
-Come up with Camp J application form that one I also have a deadline for since the meeting is on Saturday afternoon. I'm stoked! We're thinking of driving out to camp to check out the new digs. They built a new cafeteria/craft building with storm shelters and air conditioning. Now everyone's gonna wanna work in the kitchen and that never happens.
I'm sure there's more but I'm totally blanking.
I should sleep, as exciting as sleeping in sounds you have to actually fall asleep for it to take place.
"Yesterday" Adam Levine and Tony Lucca
love it.
"Killing Me Softly" Katrina Parker
he picked tony anyway, but i thought katrina was great, really grew on me throughout the competition.
but i'm all for the underdogs.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
That'll be the day.
Does anyone watch Glee anymore?
I was trolling iTunes to look at The Voice singles that were released and where they were on the top charts and ran into a bunch of new Glee stuff.
I was trolling iTunes to look at The Voice singles that were released and where they were on the top charts and ran into a bunch of new Glee stuff.
Surprisingly not so bad. Loving “How Will I Know” yes they covered Whitney Houston. This time just the girls +
Kurt acapella. Awesome.
So the music is still great, it’s just the storylines that
went to crap.
But maybe it sucks less by now. I haven’t watched a single
episode this season. Which is shocking to some as I used to be crazy obsessive
about this show and its music.
But then the storylines got too over the top and I dropped
it.
Which kind of killed my conversations with my Glee-Loving
Boss as it was all we talked about the morning after the new episodes
premiered.
The question now is, are people gonna stick around next
season when they lose half the cast?
Graduation man, bites for your audience ratings.
The show pretty much revolves around Finn and Rachel, lose
them and what’s your replacement exactly?
Curiouser and curiouser.
So, tomorrow off.
Don’t even remember when I had a day off that was in the
middle of the week.
Probably back when I was an aide.
Which was like November.
But it was rare I took a day off at all, if I wasn’t at both
places I was at least at one, which wasn’t a problem as at the time I really
didn’t have a life.
Not that I have a giant one now, but there is a semblance of
one at least.
Cause there’s a boy, and there’s family, and there’s camp,
and there’s school, and then there’s everything else.
Might actually use some vacation time this year aside from
the week for camp. Siblings are thinking of making some trips.
Cause yeah, we're the crazy kind of siblings that actually like spending time together.
Which apparently is rare.
Cause yeah, we're the crazy kind of siblings that actually like spending time together.
Which apparently is rare.
We’re thinking Vegas. That’d be fun. But before that is
camping, so yes, camping twice this summer. One time
relaxation-filled, one completely opposite.
But that’s what happens when you’re in charge of 100 kids
and the adults roaming around with them.
Speaking of, should put together an application form so I’ll
have a mock-up for the meeting next week.
And start mapping out skits. Or at least take inventory of
what I’ve got, I’ll write the new stuff once I have some idea of final numbers.
Though they’re not really final until the actual day, we’re
constantly getting more and more applications until the day of.
Or they just show up.
Or they just show up.
Which is fine.
Sort of.
Not really.
But we’ll take them anyway.
We don’t want to be the camp that turns away kids.
And they loved the tents last year so if all else fails we’ll
expand that way.
I should really finish that song book I keep intending to
send out.
I’ve got everything scanned I just need to format it.
Tomorrow.
Oh tomorrow.
Such grand plans.
Sleeping in, as I don’t have to be officially up until 7.
PM.
Dinner with the sisters, woohoo!
Thinking it’s a movie day, I can always have one of those on
in the background while I work on the songbook.
I’m thinking J. Edgar. I have that one checked out, pretty
sure it’s due like tomorrow. Woops.
I’m there everyday and I still have fines, get over it.
Maybe I’ll watch the Week with Marilyn movie, that one got
rave reviews from even my Big Brother coworker, so props to that.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I guess I could love you tomorrow.
Sure, why not.
Speaking of loving, so yeah, the boyfriend must really love
me.
Sacrificing going to the races to go to the roller derby
with his girlfriend.
I know, must be so difficult for him to settle for watching
women in fishnets battling it out whilst he watches on drinking beer.
But the races are big to him, and I’m grateful he cares
enough to put up with my crazy instead of watching cars drive around in circles.
Especially if we meet up with my derby buddies, then he’s
really gonna have to put up with my crazy.
Nah, we’re not that bad. Just have a good time. Cheer loud
and all that. Drink some Pepsi. Yep. Pepsi. It’s totally Pepsi. At least that’s
what we said it was when the pictures hit Facebook.
Moving on, I love derby.
Totally stoked.
Gonna crash and sleep in.
Don’t call me before noon! Cause I won’t answer. Sorry.
“How Will I Know” Glee Cast
I guess his sacrificing the big race to go to the derby with
me is a big hint.
“That’ll Be the Day” Buddy Holly
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
I've got the moves like Jagger.
Dear Blogspot,
Today I rocked it.
Got to use my new coffee machine this morning, well, my parents' old one cause they got a new one, but it's NEW TO ME so I'm calling it new. Anyway, it has a timer so it was ready when I woke up, awesomeness. Grabbed some fruit and hit the road.
Opened up first floor, finished up the YA project, worked at the desks, answered reference phone calls, restocked the displays, did supply rounds, wrote up a book recommendation, checked in 6 carts in an hour, then stopped by the home library after work to see Space Cadet and my Trainee.
Was good to have the Space Cadets reunited. I haven't seen her since I worked there. Like, as in the last time we worked together. Which has probably been months, since I was just down to Tuesday and Thursday nights for a while - neither of them with her.
Anyway, I walked in wearing my "Tundra hat" - present from the Cool Aunt that Slim Shady says makes me look like I'm headed for a tundra, i like it - and Space Cadet did the best doubletake ever. It was nice. Walking passed with a cart as I walk in the door, looks over, keeps walking, stops walking and looks again. HI!
We talked ipods, family, cooking, library stuff.
She enjoys that someone bought me a subscription to a cooking magazine, and claims it wasn't her. I still have no idea who did it, but once I do it's on.
I miss my home branch.
It's a completely different atmosphere there. I got to know my coworkers there a lot more than my current work branch ones just because it's slower there so you talk more. Plus they have longer hours.
And I'm getting to know my current ones, they're fantastic as well.
I draw mazes for Slim Shady on my breaks. We go out for movies and food.
Fearless Leader likes my Firefly t-shirts. We talk blogs, books, movies, and dating.
Info-Man and me talk Huskers and recommendations.
John Boy teaches me all about comics, I'm learning people.
Mentor tells me all about the joys of working with teens, and shows me the ropes to talking over teen programs.
The Reference Queen always checks in to make sure I know how to do things, aka processes that I wasn't exactly trained to do but am still doing them because no one else is.
Queen of the Known Universe always makes me laugh, we talk Criminal Minds, Big Bang Theory, and crazy people.
Super Librarian Status always gives me good philosophies for life, such as "it's not possible to drink all the liquor in town, i've tried it."
Big Brother always watches out for creepers staring at me and gives me excuses to leave the desk when one approaches.
Girlscout and I talk derby, food, library everything and somehow she's always hard at work in the staff room whenever I go in there.
Superwoman is always watching out for me, period.
The New Guy and I joke about anything that's going on at the time.
The New Girl seems to always ask me questions about processes instead of other people, I'm flattered.
Cabin Fever who I joke with about writing a book about life experiences entitled "What Was I Thinking: The Hindsight Bias" and told me to tell creepers I talk to snakes so they're scared away.
The Aides and myself always joke around and talk about starting an Aides Union - as I used to be one and now I'm an advocate.
So yes, I do like my new coworkers. But I miss the old ones as well.
Sensei who I talked The Closer, Criminal Minds, NCIS, really any TV show.
Glee-Loving Boss who calls me to tell me that Temperature Tuesdays have started at Runza.
Queen of Awesome who lets me hold Maximus Awesomus, aka the Spawn of Awesome. And goes out for sushi and drinks.
Joe Studley who I can talk to about anything, and who does impressions just to cheer me up.
Space Cadet who's always teasing me about cooking. We talk about my tech-nerd-ness and her no-tech-ness. And occasionally yell out "you want an e-reader!" for no reason.
Trainee who I actually occasionally get to see since she's doing now what I was doing before, except I was an aide at the home branch and an LSA at the work branch. She's that in reverse. We talk sports, life, crazy people, etc.
Yes, I like my coworkers. All of them. That's why it's hard to leave. That's why I don't plan on leaving anytime soon.
I'm actually looking forward to inservice day so I get to jam with everyone at the same time.
What was I talking about before this whole rambling things got started?
Oh right.
Today.
I think we're finally off vacation-mode since we're fully functional.
Or seem to be.
Today was just weird reference-wise, I had this phone call asking for an address and everywhere I looked gave me different information. At first the addresses were different, then the middle initials were different, then the phone numbers were different, then she wanted to talk to someone else cause apparently I wasn't helpful. Though she didn't say that, she just said is there anyone else there. Info-man to the rescue. He told her the same things that I did and she listened to him!! Seriously? Then she called back!
Anyway, aside from that I rocked it. Though technically I rocked that since he just said the same things that I said. Maybe I need to sound more experienced. Or authoritative. Or something. Distinguished.
I'll work on that.
In the meantime,
"Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera
dig it. my niece - the youngest one, she's like two - sings this. "got the moves like jagger, got the moves like jagger, got the moves like jagger..." i taped it and put it as my ringtone. hilarious.
We'll see if I'll still have moves like Jagger tomorrow.
Here's the Red Green philosophy for the day:
The faster you go the more you miss. As you get older you're gonna realize that we're all pretty much heading for a brick wall. The question is, how hard do you wanna hit it?
OUT!
Today I rocked it.
Got to use my new coffee machine this morning, well, my parents' old one cause they got a new one, but it's NEW TO ME so I'm calling it new. Anyway, it has a timer so it was ready when I woke up, awesomeness. Grabbed some fruit and hit the road.
Opened up first floor, finished up the YA project, worked at the desks, answered reference phone calls, restocked the displays, did supply rounds, wrote up a book recommendation, checked in 6 carts in an hour, then stopped by the home library after work to see Space Cadet and my Trainee.
Was good to have the Space Cadets reunited. I haven't seen her since I worked there. Like, as in the last time we worked together. Which has probably been months, since I was just down to Tuesday and Thursday nights for a while - neither of them with her.
Anyway, I walked in wearing my "Tundra hat" - present from the Cool Aunt that Slim Shady says makes me look like I'm headed for a tundra, i like it - and Space Cadet did the best doubletake ever. It was nice. Walking passed with a cart as I walk in the door, looks over, keeps walking, stops walking and looks again. HI!
We talked ipods, family, cooking, library stuff.
She enjoys that someone bought me a subscription to a cooking magazine, and claims it wasn't her. I still have no idea who did it, but once I do it's on.
I miss my home branch.
It's a completely different atmosphere there. I got to know my coworkers there a lot more than my current work branch ones just because it's slower there so you talk more. Plus they have longer hours.
And I'm getting to know my current ones, they're fantastic as well.
I draw mazes for Slim Shady on my breaks. We go out for movies and food.
Fearless Leader likes my Firefly t-shirts. We talk blogs, books, movies, and dating.
Info-Man and me talk Huskers and recommendations.
John Boy teaches me all about comics, I'm learning people.
Mentor tells me all about the joys of working with teens, and shows me the ropes to talking over teen programs.
The Reference Queen always checks in to make sure I know how to do things, aka processes that I wasn't exactly trained to do but am still doing them because no one else is.
Queen of the Known Universe always makes me laugh, we talk Criminal Minds, Big Bang Theory, and crazy people.
Super Librarian Status always gives me good philosophies for life, such as "it's not possible to drink all the liquor in town, i've tried it."
Big Brother always watches out for creepers staring at me and gives me excuses to leave the desk when one approaches.
Girlscout and I talk derby, food, library everything and somehow she's always hard at work in the staff room whenever I go in there.
Superwoman is always watching out for me, period.
The New Guy and I joke about anything that's going on at the time.
The New Girl seems to always ask me questions about processes instead of other people, I'm flattered.
Cabin Fever who I joke with about writing a book about life experiences entitled "What Was I Thinking: The Hindsight Bias" and told me to tell creepers I talk to snakes so they're scared away.
The Aides and myself always joke around and talk about starting an Aides Union - as I used to be one and now I'm an advocate.
So yes, I do like my new coworkers. But I miss the old ones as well.
Sensei who I talked The Closer, Criminal Minds, NCIS, really any TV show.
Glee-Loving Boss who calls me to tell me that Temperature Tuesdays have started at Runza.
Queen of Awesome who lets me hold Maximus Awesomus, aka the Spawn of Awesome. And goes out for sushi and drinks.
Joe Studley who I can talk to about anything, and who does impressions just to cheer me up.
Space Cadet who's always teasing me about cooking. We talk about my tech-nerd-ness and her no-tech-ness. And occasionally yell out "you want an e-reader!" for no reason.
Trainee who I actually occasionally get to see since she's doing now what I was doing before, except I was an aide at the home branch and an LSA at the work branch. She's that in reverse. We talk sports, life, crazy people, etc.
Yes, I like my coworkers. All of them. That's why it's hard to leave. That's why I don't plan on leaving anytime soon.
I'm actually looking forward to inservice day so I get to jam with everyone at the same time.
What was I talking about before this whole rambling things got started?
Oh right.
Today.
I think we're finally off vacation-mode since we're fully functional.
Or seem to be.
Today was just weird reference-wise, I had this phone call asking for an address and everywhere I looked gave me different information. At first the addresses were different, then the middle initials were different, then the phone numbers were different, then she wanted to talk to someone else cause apparently I wasn't helpful. Though she didn't say that, she just said is there anyone else there. Info-man to the rescue. He told her the same things that I did and she listened to him!! Seriously? Then she called back!
Anyway, aside from that I rocked it. Though technically I rocked that since he just said the same things that I said. Maybe I need to sound more experienced. Or authoritative. Or something. Distinguished.
I'll work on that.
In the meantime,
"Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera
dig it. my niece - the youngest one, she's like two - sings this. "got the moves like jagger, got the moves like jagger, got the moves like jagger..." i taped it and put it as my ringtone. hilarious.
We'll see if I'll still have moves like Jagger tomorrow.
Here's the Red Green philosophy for the day:
The faster you go the more you miss. As you get older you're gonna realize that we're all pretty much heading for a brick wall. The question is, how hard do you wanna hit it?
OUT!
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Treading trodden trails for a long long time
Called in sick, spent the day on the couch.
Couldn't even stand up this morning, was all light-headed, burning up and just dead.
Second Sister says that it must be serious as I never call in even if I am sick. Even Mom was worried.
But I figured Superwoman would take away points if I crashed at the public service desk.
Called Girlscout and she took care of it, then took my temperature and ended up with 100.1 - probably best I called in.
No idea where it came from.
Hope it's not the flu. Then Glee-Loving Boss will give me even more crap about that flu shot thing. I told him I'd rather get the flu than the shot. Probably shot myself in the foot with that.
So it was a lazy day, the only semi-productive things I did all day were open the door for the repairman who came to fix my water heater - I've been living on cold showers, not cool in winter - and talked to my sister-in-law on the phone about a Christmas present thing.
The rest of the day I slept, didn't even turn on the TV until the repair guy got here. Figured it would be awkward if I was sleeping while he was here.
Now I'm up again. Figured I should eat something. Chicken noodle it is. Though I don't have much of an appetite.
And my cat isn't even here to keep me company, he's living it up at the farm. He stayed there since I'm just going back out again this weekend and packing him up and driving him back didn't seem all that appealing since I would just be taking him back again in a few days. Plus he likes it there. As long as he doesn't go outside and have to deal with the gangwar between the North Side and South Side cats.
Anyway, of all the days to be sick, I actually had plans tonight.
Shocking, I know.
But it's true.
I'm headed back to bed after the soup, should be back to at least 90% by tomorrow.
If not I'll probably go anyway.
Coach Otte, our high school assistant basketball coach, used to say "It's all mental."
I used to hate it when he said that.
Seriously.
We all did.
Now I live by it.
I'm a workaholic and love my job. Get used to it.
Alright, a music rec and I'm out.
"So Much to Say" Dave Matthews Band
stuck in my head.
no idea where that came from either.
and now i'm singing jimmy fallon. dangit sarah, i blame you.
must turn on movie or something to get music out of head.
Couldn't even stand up this morning, was all light-headed, burning up and just dead.
Second Sister says that it must be serious as I never call in even if I am sick. Even Mom was worried.
But I figured Superwoman would take away points if I crashed at the public service desk.
Called Girlscout and she took care of it, then took my temperature and ended up with 100.1 - probably best I called in.
No idea where it came from.
Hope it's not the flu. Then Glee-Loving Boss will give me even more crap about that flu shot thing. I told him I'd rather get the flu than the shot. Probably shot myself in the foot with that.
So it was a lazy day, the only semi-productive things I did all day were open the door for the repairman who came to fix my water heater - I've been living on cold showers, not cool in winter - and talked to my sister-in-law on the phone about a Christmas present thing.
The rest of the day I slept, didn't even turn on the TV until the repair guy got here. Figured it would be awkward if I was sleeping while he was here.
Now I'm up again. Figured I should eat something. Chicken noodle it is. Though I don't have much of an appetite.
And my cat isn't even here to keep me company, he's living it up at the farm. He stayed there since I'm just going back out again this weekend and packing him up and driving him back didn't seem all that appealing since I would just be taking him back again in a few days. Plus he likes it there. As long as he doesn't go outside and have to deal with the gangwar between the North Side and South Side cats.
Anyway, of all the days to be sick, I actually had plans tonight.
Shocking, I know.
But it's true.
I'm headed back to bed after the soup, should be back to at least 90% by tomorrow.
If not I'll probably go anyway.
Coach Otte, our high school assistant basketball coach, used to say "It's all mental."
I used to hate it when he said that.
Seriously.
We all did.
Now I live by it.
I'm a workaholic and love my job. Get used to it.
Alright, a music rec and I'm out.
"So Much to Say" Dave Matthews Band
stuck in my head.
no idea where that came from either.
and now i'm singing jimmy fallon. dangit sarah, i blame you.
must turn on movie or something to get music out of head.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Dashing through the melted snow, in some untied tennis shoes
YES! My shoes are untied!
And I'm AWARE of it!
You don't have to tell me this, I'm aware that they are untied because they've been untied ALL DAY!
Because everytime I tie them they just come loose again anyway! So I've just stopped tying them!
The number of people letting me know about this has become exponential. At first it was amusing, up to 8 people in one hour - but I work public service and am constantly walking all over the floor, stocking the displays and helping people find things - now it's like, I'm aware but I still say,
"ah man, should really work on that." Cause I'm tired of saying
"woops, i'll fix those."
Mom actually called me out on it at the home library a few weeks ago. She showed up and they weren't tied, she said she wasn't surprised cause they were never tied when I was little either. Some things never change. I trip over things whether my shoes are tied or not. So what's the point in tying them if they're just going to become untied 2 minutes later and I have re-ty them again? Plus, that whole double-knot thing? Too obnoxious to get untied when I actually need them to be untied.
Totally bummed, it was my last official day, well night, at the home library. I won't be scheduled there unless either someone calls in sick, or Superwoman decides they need an extra night person. Which was what I was doing before, but now people are hired and all that stuff has been sorted out. Sad day. Not sad that they have new people, that's good, but sad that I won't get to spend my Tuesday nights there, jamming out with Joe Studley. But I'll still visit. Especially once the QofA comes back, which should be some time in January. Plus I gotta stop in to see Space Cadet and talk about all her new technology, I'm so proud. But Glee-Loving Boss can continue to give me crap about flu shots, because I will now see him since I'm in Youth Services and all that jazz.
It's a whole different place there anyway, since Sensei is gone, and QofA is on leave. Plus I never see Space Cadet since we're never scheduled together and I only catch glimpses of Glee-Loving Boss. So it was basically just me and Joe Studley, though I did run into the Awesome Temp when she left and I got there. The new shelver is fantastic. She's also an Aide at the work library so it's cool to get to talk to her about home library stuff. I think she's got it all figured out, they're all caught up so I'm talking to her about projects and stuff I did when there was nothing to shelve.
Otherwise, I was totally productive today. Got all the way through the supply cabinet in the workroom, which sounds like it's a small thing, but it took over an hour and a half to just to sort through and list everything that was on 3 shelves. After that it was lab desk supplies and second floor desk as well. All that's left is all of first floor... basically the supply desk in the backroom, the public service desks, youth services, the basement, and then everywhere where this is a printer or copier or supplies for a printer or copier. But I have tomorrow and Thursday for that.
Aside from that I wrote out my Christmas letters, I just need to send them, then ordered my textbook for class in January and some cool t-shirts plus Second Sister's Christmas present - I'm actually excited about that one. Not that I'm not excited about my other presents, it's just this one has a whole story behind it. I'll post more about it after she's opened it.
Alright, on to the rec's of the night.
Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Seven
"Jingle Bells" Glee Cast version
love the changeup on this one.
or you could listen to this version:
"Jingle Bombs" Achmed the Dead Terrorist - Jeff Dunham
"and then my favorites SILENCE! night."
okay, in order to understand that you should probably watch this: Achmed the Dead Terrorist If you haven't already.
and if you like that there's a new one where you meet his son AJ Achmed and AJ I especially like when his feet get messed up and they make Guitar Guy come fix them.
"Walking in a Winter Wonderland" Dean Martin
he's a classic.
alright, out for the night. long day tomorrow. hard to believe it's already the 20th, christmas will soon be upon us. i'm actually glad we're not having our family christmas until the 1st, it's like christmas won't be over right away after the 25th. it's cool to have it extended.
OUT!
And I'm AWARE of it!
You don't have to tell me this, I'm aware that they are untied because they've been untied ALL DAY!
Because everytime I tie them they just come loose again anyway! So I've just stopped tying them!
The number of people letting me know about this has become exponential. At first it was amusing, up to 8 people in one hour - but I work public service and am constantly walking all over the floor, stocking the displays and helping people find things - now it's like, I'm aware but I still say,
"ah man, should really work on that." Cause I'm tired of saying
"woops, i'll fix those."
Mom actually called me out on it at the home library a few weeks ago. She showed up and they weren't tied, she said she wasn't surprised cause they were never tied when I was little either. Some things never change. I trip over things whether my shoes are tied or not. So what's the point in tying them if they're just going to become untied 2 minutes later and I have re-ty them again? Plus, that whole double-knot thing? Too obnoxious to get untied when I actually need them to be untied.
Totally bummed, it was my last official day, well night, at the home library. I won't be scheduled there unless either someone calls in sick, or Superwoman decides they need an extra night person. Which was what I was doing before, but now people are hired and all that stuff has been sorted out. Sad day. Not sad that they have new people, that's good, but sad that I won't get to spend my Tuesday nights there, jamming out with Joe Studley. But I'll still visit. Especially once the QofA comes back, which should be some time in January. Plus I gotta stop in to see Space Cadet and talk about all her new technology, I'm so proud. But Glee-Loving Boss can continue to give me crap about flu shots, because I will now see him since I'm in Youth Services and all that jazz.
It's a whole different place there anyway, since Sensei is gone, and QofA is on leave. Plus I never see Space Cadet since we're never scheduled together and I only catch glimpses of Glee-Loving Boss. So it was basically just me and Joe Studley, though I did run into the Awesome Temp when she left and I got there. The new shelver is fantastic. She's also an Aide at the work library so it's cool to get to talk to her about home library stuff. I think she's got it all figured out, they're all caught up so I'm talking to her about projects and stuff I did when there was nothing to shelve.
Otherwise, I was totally productive today. Got all the way through the supply cabinet in the workroom, which sounds like it's a small thing, but it took over an hour and a half to just to sort through and list everything that was on 3 shelves. After that it was lab desk supplies and second floor desk as well. All that's left is all of first floor... basically the supply desk in the backroom, the public service desks, youth services, the basement, and then everywhere where this is a printer or copier or supplies for a printer or copier. But I have tomorrow and Thursday for that.
Aside from that I wrote out my Christmas letters, I just need to send them, then ordered my textbook for class in January and some cool t-shirts plus Second Sister's Christmas present - I'm actually excited about that one. Not that I'm not excited about my other presents, it's just this one has a whole story behind it. I'll post more about it after she's opened it.
Alright, on to the rec's of the night.
Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Seven
"Jingle Bells" Glee Cast version
love the changeup on this one.
or you could listen to this version:
"Jingle Bombs" Achmed the Dead Terrorist - Jeff Dunham
"and then my favorites SILENCE! night."
okay, in order to understand that you should probably watch this: Achmed the Dead Terrorist If you haven't already.
and if you like that there's a new one where you meet his son AJ Achmed and AJ I especially like when his feet get messed up and they make Guitar Guy come fix them.
"Walking in a Winter Wonderland" Dean Martin
he's a classic.
alright, out for the night. long day tomorrow. hard to believe it's already the 20th, christmas will soon be upon us. i'm actually glad we're not having our family christmas until the 1st, it's like christmas won't be over right away after the 25th. it's cool to have it extended.
OUT!
Saturday, December 10, 2011
You're really lovely underneath it all
Alright, which one of you nerds bought me a subscription to a cooking magazine?
Seriously?!
I didn't burn down the apartment!
If I had you would have read all about it.
Didn't you read about how careful I was about not burning down my apartment?!
I opened my mail and just started laughing.
I'm still laughing.
So thanks for that.
But still, man. Ouch.
The prank war is on.
And I'm 2 points behind.
Cause Glee-Loving Boss still gives me crap about flu shots, even moreso after he planted the "flu mist nasal spray" flyer in my mailbox. That was prank number one. I wear the flyer around in my nametag cause it's funny and I'm random like that.
But my nametag also says I'm 30 percent off at Target, so there.
And This Issue is Not For Checkout, comes aplenty as well.
What else are you supposed to do with all those stickers after you take them off the magazine barcodes? You put the new magazine on the display rack and have to take the sticker off the old one.
There's pretty much just a buildup of randomness in and on my nametag.
And I'm keeping this one.
I've had to tape it multiple times since it keeps falling apart.
But that happens when you're an Aide. It gets caught in everything. Our Supply Queen sent me a pack in bulk just cause I kept asking for them. I'm keeping this one.
It also has my star - since GLB stuck one on my forehead one day mid-shift (no warning) and said I was the star. I put that on my nametag, along with the giant Mickey Mouse sticker he gave me saying I could get another if I went to get a shot.
Not happening.
At least the Mickey Mouse is sort of fitting as now I'm sort of Youth Services.
Partly.
But I'm sad cause I don't want this one to fall apart like my last one did. And that had my gold star on it from Space Cadet from the "She says I should get a sticker. Or a gold star. Or a pizza." conversation when she said I deserved it for having over 100 percent in Superwoman's point system.
So I wrote that to Superwoman who replied, "Oh good grief, she would say pizza." Then told me my prize was a snowflake sticker "compliments" of her, aka the ones on the desk we give out to kids that she didn't even know existed until she showed up that morning and said, "wow, cool snowflake stickers!" Compliments, HA!
That also went on my nametag.
But it's hanging on my door so it's cool.
Oh the sacrifices of being an Aide. Or having been one. Although my work hasn't necessarily changed as I was kind of a jack of all trades there. I'm still one, just in a different building. Like today, when there's computer problems they call on me cause Virtual Services has the weekends off.
Or taking care of the YA section. I'm weeding through that fairly quickly despite spending the majority of the day at the desks. I got through to the J's. But they started at Z so that's progress.
Lots of pulling books, putting them on carts, taking the elevator downstairs, scanning all the books and changing statuses, weeding the ones that don't make the cut, putting the rest back on the cart, taking the cart back upstairs, and re-shelving them.
And going with that, apparently my back is screwed for future use.
We had this seminar thing during a staff meeting when this dude came out from Risk Management to talk about back safety.
Giving us examples of what not to do.
Well, I do that daily.
And that.
And those as well.
Woops.
Maybe not as often anymore since I'm not an Aide. But there's still a lot of that involved in checking in and moving carts and all that.
Do you know how awkward it is to "belly up to your work" when you're pushing a cart? I keep kicking the bottom of the freaking thing.
So, if my back fails on me I'll just be like my Supplies Predecessor and get to call 911 and actually say, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Alphabet Time.
Alright, so it's not as fun as saying T-Recs, but we're up to the U-turn.
I love No Doubt. Them plus Eminem and a lot of country were probably my favorites in Grade School, but I just found this version and it's fantastic.
Ignore the dancing animals in the background. I don't want Juwanna freaking out on me again.
"Underneath It All" - Zebrahead
awesome
"Unbelievable" Diamond Rio
pretty big fan of these guys as well. if you didn't figure that out already with our version of "Meet in the Middle" lyrics here:My Life in Closed Captions: You are the queen, but I'm, I'm just little.
"Up Around the Bend" CCR
another band i listened to a lot growing up. i blame this one on my father. but they have a lot of great songs that never get old.
Alright, I'm off.
Watch some more Leverage and make some plans to jam out with Bubby and Squirt tomorrow.
Seriously?!
I didn't burn down the apartment!
If I had you would have read all about it.
Didn't you read about how careful I was about not burning down my apartment?!
I opened my mail and just started laughing.
I'm still laughing.
So thanks for that.
But still, man. Ouch.
The prank war is on.
And I'm 2 points behind.
Cause Glee-Loving Boss still gives me crap about flu shots, even moreso after he planted the "flu mist nasal spray" flyer in my mailbox. That was prank number one. I wear the flyer around in my nametag cause it's funny and I'm random like that.
But my nametag also says I'm 30 percent off at Target, so there.
And This Issue is Not For Checkout, comes aplenty as well.
What else are you supposed to do with all those stickers after you take them off the magazine barcodes? You put the new magazine on the display rack and have to take the sticker off the old one.
There's pretty much just a buildup of randomness in and on my nametag.
And I'm keeping this one.
I've had to tape it multiple times since it keeps falling apart.
But that happens when you're an Aide. It gets caught in everything. Our Supply Queen sent me a pack in bulk just cause I kept asking for them. I'm keeping this one.
It also has my star - since GLB stuck one on my forehead one day mid-shift (no warning) and said I was the star. I put that on my nametag, along with the giant Mickey Mouse sticker he gave me saying I could get another if I went to get a shot.
Not happening.
At least the Mickey Mouse is sort of fitting as now I'm sort of Youth Services.
Partly.
But I'm sad cause I don't want this one to fall apart like my last one did. And that had my gold star on it from Space Cadet from the "She says I should get a sticker. Or a gold star. Or a pizza." conversation when she said I deserved it for having over 100 percent in Superwoman's point system.
So I wrote that to Superwoman who replied, "Oh good grief, she would say pizza." Then told me my prize was a snowflake sticker "compliments" of her, aka the ones on the desk we give out to kids that she didn't even know existed until she showed up that morning and said, "wow, cool snowflake stickers!" Compliments, HA!
That also went on my nametag.
But it's hanging on my door so it's cool.
Oh the sacrifices of being an Aide. Or having been one. Although my work hasn't necessarily changed as I was kind of a jack of all trades there. I'm still one, just in a different building. Like today, when there's computer problems they call on me cause Virtual Services has the weekends off.
Or taking care of the YA section. I'm weeding through that fairly quickly despite spending the majority of the day at the desks. I got through to the J's. But they started at Z so that's progress.
Lots of pulling books, putting them on carts, taking the elevator downstairs, scanning all the books and changing statuses, weeding the ones that don't make the cut, putting the rest back on the cart, taking the cart back upstairs, and re-shelving them.
And going with that, apparently my back is screwed for future use.
We had this seminar thing during a staff meeting when this dude came out from Risk Management to talk about back safety.
Giving us examples of what not to do.
Well, I do that daily.
And that.
And those as well.
Woops.
Maybe not as often anymore since I'm not an Aide. But there's still a lot of that involved in checking in and moving carts and all that.
Do you know how awkward it is to "belly up to your work" when you're pushing a cart? I keep kicking the bottom of the freaking thing.
So, if my back fails on me I'll just be like my Supplies Predecessor and get to call 911 and actually say, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Alphabet Time.
Alright, so it's not as fun as saying T-Recs, but we're up to the U-turn.
I love No Doubt. Them plus Eminem and a lot of country were probably my favorites in Grade School, but I just found this version and it's fantastic.
Ignore the dancing animals in the background. I don't want Juwanna freaking out on me again.
"Underneath It All" - Zebrahead
awesome
"Unbelievable" Diamond Rio
pretty big fan of these guys as well. if you didn't figure that out already with our version of "Meet in the Middle" lyrics here:My Life in Closed Captions: You are the queen, but I'm, I'm just little.
"Up Around the Bend" CCR
another band i listened to a lot growing up. i blame this one on my father. but they have a lot of great songs that never get old.
Alright, I'm off.
Watch some more Leverage and make some plans to jam out with Bubby and Squirt tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I'm so glad we had this time together.
Well, that sucked.
I learned today that I'm a crazy emotional girl.
So I spent the majority of my day doing what crazy emotional girls do.
I figured it was my last day, so I had an excuse.
And I had this whole thing planned out to say. About how we're a family. Now it just makes me sad, but I should say it anyway.
The father (Glee-Loving Boss) who watches out for everyone, teases them about getting flu shots, jokes with you about Glee.
The mom (Sensei) who's a genius about family histories, and who you can joke about anything with, especially anything involving The Closer, Criminal Minds, or Jay Leno.
The cool aunt (Space Cadet) who you debate about things like sea cows and snow leopards. And bond over things like breadsticks, pizza, and morning shifts.
The older brother (Joe Studley) whose knowledge of movie and music trivia will make your head spin. Who'll do voice impersonations just to make you laugh.
The older sister (Queen of Awesome) who keeps you sane in times of crazy, who you can count on when you need someone to talk to or a night out for sushi.
The younger brother (the Quiet One) who makes you laugh and steps up when you need them to.
And now we've adopted another older sister (Trainee) who you can talk derby, basketball, football, booze cakes, library, practically anything with. Someone who's proud that, when a derby girl walks in and comes to the desk, you're able to remain professional and withhold going all fangirls until said derby girl has left the building.
Originally, I was the shy younger sister. Too afraid she was going to screw up to stand up for herself.
But, with the assistance of everyone listed above, I've definitely grown into something completely different. And I'm grateful for each one of them and their guidance and support for more than a year now. I will miss them all.
And I know, I'll still be around a few nights a week, but that's different.
Walking out of there tonight was different.
Tomorrow is my first full day as a 40hr professional.
But I'll always remember my first day as an Aide. Spent half of it in the back room, three-hole-punching the bottoms of plastic bags, because apparently tiny children might think it's fun to put them over their heads. I can still hear Glee-Loving Boss saying, "I know this is ridiculous, but..."
That was just the start of what became a crazy and exciting year-and-a-half long journey to where we are now.
And I'm grateful for the experience.
"This Time Together" Show Finale
I figured, for the night, I'd hit you with a collection of some of the songs I'd sing while shelving.
I'll call it "Songs of the Shelver" much like those collections you see advertised late at night or on Who's Line is it Anyway, except these have their actual lyrics.
"All My Ex's Live In Texas" George Strait
"6 Months" Hey Monday live/acoustic
"Where Oh Where" HeeHaw
Random assortment, I'm aware. But those are just three of the many. Perhaps tomorrow I'll post some more.
Tomorrow.
Big day.
I learned today that I'm a crazy emotional girl.
So I spent the majority of my day doing what crazy emotional girls do.
I figured it was my last day, so I had an excuse.
And I had this whole thing planned out to say. About how we're a family. Now it just makes me sad, but I should say it anyway.
The father (Glee-Loving Boss) who watches out for everyone, teases them about getting flu shots, jokes with you about Glee.
The mom (Sensei) who's a genius about family histories, and who you can joke about anything with, especially anything involving The Closer, Criminal Minds, or Jay Leno.
The cool aunt (Space Cadet) who you debate about things like sea cows and snow leopards. And bond over things like breadsticks, pizza, and morning shifts.
The older brother (Joe Studley) whose knowledge of movie and music trivia will make your head spin. Who'll do voice impersonations just to make you laugh.
The older sister (Queen of Awesome) who keeps you sane in times of crazy, who you can count on when you need someone to talk to or a night out for sushi.
The younger brother (the Quiet One) who makes you laugh and steps up when you need them to.
And now we've adopted another older sister (Trainee) who you can talk derby, basketball, football, booze cakes, library, practically anything with. Someone who's proud that, when a derby girl walks in and comes to the desk, you're able to remain professional and withhold going all fangirls until said derby girl has left the building.
Originally, I was the shy younger sister. Too afraid she was going to screw up to stand up for herself.
But, with the assistance of everyone listed above, I've definitely grown into something completely different. And I'm grateful for each one of them and their guidance and support for more than a year now. I will miss them all.
And I know, I'll still be around a few nights a week, but that's different.
Walking out of there tonight was different.
Tomorrow is my first full day as a 40hr professional.
But I'll always remember my first day as an Aide. Spent half of it in the back room, three-hole-punching the bottoms of plastic bags, because apparently tiny children might think it's fun to put them over their heads. I can still hear Glee-Loving Boss saying, "I know this is ridiculous, but..."
That was just the start of what became a crazy and exciting year-and-a-half long journey to where we are now.
And I'm grateful for the experience.
"This Time Together" Show Finale
I figured, for the night, I'd hit you with a collection of some of the songs I'd sing while shelving.
I'll call it "Songs of the Shelver" much like those collections you see advertised late at night or on Who's Line is it Anyway, except these have their actual lyrics.
"All My Ex's Live In Texas" George Strait
"6 Months" Hey Monday live/acoustic
"Where Oh Where" HeeHaw
Random assortment, I'm aware. But those are just three of the many. Perhaps tomorrow I'll post some more.
Tomorrow.
Big day.
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