In Which I Remember Why I Do This
So, after several weeks of stress and crap and "srsly? why did I think becoming a keeper of the printed word would be a good career choice in the 21st century?" I finally had a pretty awesome day yesterday:
Awesomeness the first:
I managed to (sorta) meet a major deadline on Thursday. Despite getting two? weeks notice rather than three months, I was able to turn in (a bare bones version of) my event plan for December through February. I mostly just have the dates and some of the major themes picked out, but I figure that will have to do for now.
Awesomeness the second:
I got compliments at preschool storytime. for realz. And everything went smoothly - as smoothly as anything with a roomfull of 2 to 5 year olds goes, anyway. And I got to read books to little kids, which is always fun (so long as I have enough time to request in good ones to read).
Awesomeness the third:
I feel like I am getting to know my teens - and getting a better handle on their behavior. [shuffling. I had never hear of the term before last week - outside of card games or walking. but apparently shuffling is The Thing. that and - like every other group of teens I have ever encountered in a library setting - they keep wanting to know why they can't play M rated games in the library. Can we play this M rated game? How about this one? What if everyone in the room is cool with it? How about then? :p] Also, we have been getting enough teens to our afterschool hangout cafe thingie that I feel more than justified in limiting participants to teen cafe to, you know, teens. Starting next week. (the kidlets have been given fair warning)
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Today was unfortunately mostly just stress and lots and lots of book processing (oh, how I miss the automatic book sorter at the other library). Until! someone (I do not know who, I did not get to talk to him) dropped a poster-sized one of these off at the library:
I've been laughing hysterically pretty much ever since. I soooo need to get it framed and hung up in the teen section.
After searching for where I can buy more,* I discovered that it is a fan made poster. It - and many others (mlp themed, not read themed) - can be found here at deviantart. Oh internets, I love you so.
* yes, I am a complete dork and checked the ALA site first. but was not terribly surprised when an image search turned up several brony sites instead.
Awesomeness the first:
I managed to (sorta) meet a major deadline on Thursday. Despite getting two? weeks notice rather than three months, I was able to turn in (a bare bones version of) my event plan for December through February. I mostly just have the dates and some of the major themes picked out, but I figure that will have to do for now.
Awesomeness the second:
I got compliments at preschool storytime. for realz. And everything went smoothly - as smoothly as anything with a roomfull of 2 to 5 year olds goes, anyway. And I got to read books to little kids, which is always fun (so long as I have enough time to request in good ones to read).
Awesomeness the third:
I feel like I am getting to know my teens - and getting a better handle on their behavior. [shuffling. I had never hear of the term before last week - outside of card games or walking. but apparently shuffling is The Thing. that and - like every other group of teens I have ever encountered in a library setting - they keep wanting to know why they can't play M rated games in the library. Can we play this M rated game? How about this one? What if everyone in the room is cool with it? How about then? :p] Also, we have been getting enough teens to our afterschool hangout cafe thingie that I feel more than justified in limiting participants to teen cafe to, you know, teens. Starting next week. (the kidlets have been given fair warning)
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Today was unfortunately mostly just stress and lots and lots of book processing (oh, how I miss the automatic book sorter at the other library). Until! someone (I do not know who, I did not get to talk to him) dropped a poster-sized one of these off at the library:
I've been laughing hysterically pretty much ever since. I soooo need to get it framed and hung up in the teen section.
After searching for where I can buy more,* I discovered that it is a fan made poster. It - and many others (mlp themed, not read themed) - can be found here at deviantart. Oh internets, I love you so.
* yes, I am a complete dork and checked the ALA site first. but was not terribly surprised when an image search turned up several brony sites instead.