more than just bricks and mortar

Big day.

Long day.

Big and long day.

Woke up at 6:30 for Thursday morning coffee with the Library Goddess.

I actually beat her to the coffee joint this morning which has only ever happened one other time.

But I was pretty sure hell was freezing over.

Something's going on with all this freakin' fog.

Driving back was ridiculous, couldn't see 10 feet in front of me.

Anyway, so this morning, met up with the Library Goddess for coffee - I had one there and then one to go plus a mountain dew once I got to work so I was pretty wired the rest of the day.

Which is good cause I didn't get back until 9:40 PM.

So morning coffee, had lunch with Slim Shady - our last official lunch together. We hit up this new joint, had some rice bowls it was great but half of mine is still in the fridge. Oh well, lunch for tomorrow.

If I remember it's there.

After that I was at the desk for like an hour before I had to take off for class but during that hour I got to hear all about the pros and cons of Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hulu Plus from the New Girl and BossLady so I've officially made up my mind and am going with Amazon Prime.

Makes the most sense since I use Amazon quite often.

And if I need it I'll throw in Netflix.

But apparently with Hulu Plus it doesn't always work on the smart blu ray players and a lot of the stuff you can only watch on your computer not your TV or tablet.

Lame.

Anyway, so after lunch headed up to class - met up with the Library Goddess in the parking lot cause she had to give me a parking permit so I could park in the staff lot.

This is after I had to call the Cool Aunt to try to track her down cause she doesn't answer her phone!

Nah, it worked and I got to stop by the Cool Aunt's office before the Library Goddess literally pulled me out and down the hall. We set up for class which she's team teaching with 2 other teachers - 1 I've met like once and the other is the Mad Clapper. That woman is the queen of clapping for serious, louder than anyone else on the planet, I swear.

Anyway, so we set up, I handed out the mandatory contact info slips and got to sort thru them after class. There are 15 people I'm in charge of but in the class there are 65 total.

Which is madness, I'm aware. But half of them are undergrads.

One way to tell the grads from the undergrads?

Seating placement.

We took up the back row.

Not just one of us.

All of us.

Jen jokingly said we'd "done our time in the front" which is true but highly amusing.

But we also know each other and sit together and with the way the undergrads were looking around I'm pretty sure they're still not too familiar with names yet.

You'll get there.

It's actually cool getting to know people cause you'll run into them in classes and conference and all that but the funny thing about being the GA is that people know you, even if you don't know them.

Like faces I can usually place and be like, I was in this class with you so your name is.... and then it hits me.

But they all know me, like I'm handing out those green sheets and they keep saying my name after the "thanks".

One of those, "just nod your head and smile" situations that SuperHumann always use to comment on in high school.

Anyway, a lot of fun Library Goddess-isms from tonight, a few are inappropriate but my favorite is a repeated line - I mean aside from the "this isn't a job it's a profession." - This one is "it's not just about bricks and mortar." then went on to say we could have state of the art million dollar libraries but it would mean nothing if we didn't have ties to the community and the patrons there-in.

We're more than our buildings.

Without outreach we die.

So class was fun. This one was Special Libraries in which we go all over the state visiting different specialized libraries.

Special libraries are basically - okay so there are three main types of library you've got the public library which is where I work, the academic library and then the special library like a military or medical or religious, etc.

But we get to go to the capital and see the secret passageways and all that. I'm stoked. Signed up for some fun sessions, actually there's one for the specialized music library at the work branch which I didn't sign up for cause I figured it was cheating as I walk through it every day.

Speaking of music I should post this and crash cause it's already way late and I have to work all day tomorrow as well.

More of 2012's greatest hits - country style

Pontoon - Little Big Town


music mentor loves this song. sang it all camp.


Fastest Girl In Town - Miranda Lambert


love this video. find it highly entertaining. no idea why.


We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift


too catchy for its own good. loved kaley's comment on taylor being president. go here. awesomeness.

people's choice is probably my favorite - well tied with oscars - because there are so many awards all thrown at them at once and the speeches last like a 30 seconds max. plus the people i want to win actually win. like jennifer aniston and maroon 5 - "damn you swift" - and big bang theory and robert downey jr and ellen pompeo and hunger games and jennifer lawrence - loved her speech - and katy perry and taylor swift and NATHAN FILLION!! and adam sandler, chris colfer, lea michelle, etc.

It's just all fun and games.

Plus I really like Kaley.

From before Big Bang Theory, which people rarely say.

But I can, remember the Charmed obsession?

Oh yeah, she was in it.

Billie.

Final season.

Check it out.


yep, definitely blonde.

"Politics is the art of postponing a decision until they are no longer relevant"

Watched "Red Tails" with the boyfriend tonight.

It was incredibly cheesy. 

Even for George Lucas. 

And I say that in the nicest possible way, I'm a Star Wars nerd. 

But even that has moments of cheesiness. 

It was interesting because if you closed your eyes you could still hear Star Wars.... if that makes sense, I don't know there was a lot of shooting and flying vehicles and all that.

Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard did fairly well, but they weren't in it all that much. 

I like Daniela Ruah from NCIS:LA so it was interesting seeing her in a non-English-speaking role. 

And I mean it was a good story, it was, it's just that okay *SPOILER ALERT* like none of them died. 

Until the end. 

But they were rookie pilots pulling crazy stunts against experienced ones with better planes.

Even the one whose plane leaked gas and caught fire when it crash-landed survived. 

He was like, "wait, is one of them really going to die?" 

Nope. 

Eventually yes, but even the dialogue was cheesy. There were a lot of moments when I stopped watching and was like, really?

Scale of Awesome says about 4/10. There were some good lines, and they meant well, so I've got to give them something, you know?

They just didn't pull it off. 

So that was a bit disappointing, but at least I got to see the boyfriend since he was gone this weekend and he'll be gone again this upcoming weekend.

Now I'm back to delayed olympics - US women's basketball just beat China, and US women's volleyball is currently up one set to Turkey.

Work was better today, I didn't screw up as often as yesterday so that's a bonus. Made a lot of progress on a booklist that got back-burnered because of camp and other library-related stuff, mostly Summer Reading. But now that's okay, well it's supposed to be over but apparently we're still handing out prizes until like Winter.

Which is fine, I don't want to turn kids away, I'm all about kids in the library, but now things have slowed down enough that I can focus on the fact that TAB is starting soon and that I'm still completely unprepared. Hopefully Thursday will help, we're getting together for TAM, which I've learned stands for "Thursday Afternoon Meeting".

Though it usually says "TAM Meeting" on the schedule so kind of kills that whole abbreviation thing with redundancy.

Anyway, I'm going to flail to the fellow leaders of TAB - aka other branch leaders - and ask them for advice on activities and meetings. I have lots of tips from Mentor but she's encouraged me to talk to others as well so learn about their different approaches.

So I can find one that works for me, basically.

But they're good kids and actually show up for meetings and participate so I'm grateful.

Alright, enough about that, I'm gonna crash. Starving actually, just realize I haven't eaten anything since that polish dog at lunch. Should probably work on that, popsicles or something. That's basically all that's in my fridge since I emptied it out before camp and haven't went shopping since.

I think there's some icecream cake in there from my birthday, should probably toss that.

Which just reminds me that I'm old.

Well, older than I was February 18th, I don't know where I'm going with this. Gonna get food and watch some more olympics before I crash.

Song of the day:


"Pontoon" Little Big Town

too catchy for its own good.

3 days in a row with legitimate pre-11:50 times, what's wrong with this picture?