Back to Work (the Future?)

First off, Windows Starter with Windows Whatever The F* It Is Now is friggin’ annoying.  I can’t program it to start with either single or double spacing (as opposed to 1.15 spacing with 10 pt. whatever) in 12 pt. Times New Roman (AS IS NORMAL) instead of 11pt. Calibri, a font of which I’ve never even heard.

So, today was the First Day Back from the three weeks of “basic training” at the Central Office.  Basic was not…quite…as basic as I’d hoped.  Simultaneously as boring as I feared and more entertaining than I’d hoped.  Hey man, I learned how to cuff people two different ways AND use pepper spray…neither of which I will ever use.  But hey, if I’m not learning how to use the radio I’m forced to take with me every day, why not be forced to learn defensive tactics when I’m not allowed to carry cuffs or pepper spray?

Anyway, First Day Back was more about answering my email and stopping my head from spinning around in that Exorcist minus the pea green vomit way.  (Same facial expressions applied, believe me.)  First it was all OMG Drowning in Emailz.  Then it was OMFG Drowning in Paper Mailz for Too Long.  Oh, and did I mention that I have a Book Order due yesterday?  (NB: As of posting, possibly 2 or 3 days ago.)  I checked.  All other institutions had between 170 and 200 books on their lists.  I currently have 10.  I’ve tried. Future Librarians Listen to Me, learning, knowing, and being intimately involved with your collections takes time, effort, love, and ever more time and effort.  And possibly love.  And maybe some passion.  I have all of the above, but right now I’m more concerned with getting copy paper and library cards, and if I have time, some correction ribbon for the typewriters. 

Honestly, today I spent most of my time typing up purchase requests so that I could spend the sweet dolla dolla bills that have been approved in my budget.  Because I need barcode scanners and mazagines and newspapers I will never read…BUT MY PATRONS WILL.

And in the end, that’s all that matters...

Until I tell them they only have hand-me-down romance novels from the women’s institution to read for the next 3 months.

(I don’t think they’ll complain.  I’ve skimmed them all…they’re, uh, not bad.)  ;-)

Oh, and don't hold this against me, but I have two more Readers' Advisory to do, for one of which I've lost my notes and just returned to the library, and the other I haven't written notes on yet.  And I've just started a new, critically-acclaimed book.  I'll work on this, I promise.