Just in time for the summer...the Library Pool

Yes, that's it. Darn the computers! My library is getting a pool.

Well, not intentionally that is. We had a pipe burst under the slab near the copier and computers. They are talking about repiping the library. So they closed us down for the week.

Thus I will be working at another library for a couple of days. The plus side to this caper is no being in charge. I am a lowly peon once again. And loving it.

Good night and joyfully I go to work once again. At least for two days : P

I love...

In no particular order and for no particular reason

I love....

the smell of my dad's pipe tobacco
the feel of B's hand on my waist
curling up with a good book
the way my family laughs together
the quiet before the storm at work
my kitties
other people's kitties
a windy day
the feel of the ocean and sand as I stand still and let the waves crash around me
the second before I open a present
really talking to someone
words like dusk and gregarious

I could go on for days.

Good night and I love you.

The Struggle

Last week. Last week was... Last week was bad.

Now let me preface this by saying I love being a children's librarian. I think it is the best job in the whole wide world for me.

But I haven't been able to do my job for the last month. Whenever I do something I really want to do a good job. Not because of the job but because of myself. I like being good at things.

If you give me one job and let me excel, I will do my very best. But give me two (one which had someone else doing it also full time) and you will get a half effort. I try to do both. But I don't have two hundred percent to just hand away all the time.

We had the police called three times to the library this week. The first time was the worse. We had a gang of teens outside with a baseball bat. It was scary. Then we had a young adult come by the library. He comes in all the time to use the Sorenson because he is deaf. Apparently there was something happening at his house because the police came by again to handcuff him and take him away. Lastly, the gang of teens came back. But got away before the police came. We found out before they came that they might have been involved in a knife fight at another library.

Can librarians get hazard pay?

And all this pulls away from the job I love. The job I can not do properly because of the other.

It is cause for some major praying/wondering/thinking.

Good day and this week will be better I hope.