Random funny stuff and work stuff
While I was waiting for a ride after work today I saw a car go by, driven by a HS-age girl with a friend as a passenger. They (or some prankster they knew) had painted goofy stuff all over the windows, mainly doodles and names and such. The really funny part was, someone had painted an arrow on the windshield pointing to the driver along with the words "POO HEAD"! LOL!!
Also in the way too amused category... We had the TV on the closing ceremonies of the Olympics in Athens the other night, only sort of half-watching it. Some Cretan dancers were doing some sort of dance that involved leaping over a bonfire.
Mom glanced over and said, "Boy, I hope their pants are frame retarded."
I looked at her oddly.
"Er, I mean, flame retardant."
XD LMAO!!
Now for the work stuff. Things have been really, really quiet the last week or two, and I was getting rather bored doing basically nothing but dusting and shelf-reading. >_< But near the end of my shift today my boss came and gave me a nice, shiny new project! Woooooooooot! *hugs project* I have a long-term project to work on! Yipee! No more shelf-reading for awhile! :D Unbeknownst to the library, it seems that from 1950 to 1996 the city manager's office kept a historical newspaper clippings file very similar to the one the library has kept since its inception. The only difference being that theirs was focused only on city government while ours is more general. When they stopped doing theirs in '96 we inherited it. The lucky pages in those years got to photocopy everything from the oversized originals that were falling apart, and the copies were went away to be bound into lovely hardcover albums. (Actually they're not lovely; they're quite plain-looking, but that's beside the point.) ;)
Here's where I come in. I get to go through 46 years worth of newspaper clipping albums and make copies of all the articles about the library. Once they're all copied and labeled and in order and such, I report back to my boss. Then the info from the new/old articles will be incorporated into my history project that I just quasi-finished, and the articles will probably be entered into our historical file and database. In other words, lots of fussing with photocopiers, files and papers--which I like doing. Wootness! ^_^
Also in the way too amused category... We had the TV on the closing ceremonies of the Olympics in Athens the other night, only sort of half-watching it. Some Cretan dancers were doing some sort of dance that involved leaping over a bonfire.
Mom glanced over and said, "Boy, I hope their pants are frame retarded."
I looked at her oddly.
"Er, I mean, flame retardant."
XD LMAO!!
Now for the work stuff. Things have been really, really quiet the last week or two, and I was getting rather bored doing basically nothing but dusting and shelf-reading. >_< But near the end of my shift today my boss came and gave me a nice, shiny new project! Woooooooooot! *hugs project* I have a long-term project to work on! Yipee! No more shelf-reading for awhile! :D Unbeknownst to the library, it seems that from 1950 to 1996 the city manager's office kept a historical newspaper clippings file very similar to the one the library has kept since its inception. The only difference being that theirs was focused only on city government while ours is more general. When they stopped doing theirs in '96 we inherited it. The lucky pages in those years got to photocopy everything from the oversized originals that were falling apart, and the copies were went away to be bound into lovely hardcover albums. (Actually they're not lovely; they're quite plain-looking, but that's beside the point.) ;)
Here's where I come in. I get to go through 46 years worth of newspaper clipping albums and make copies of all the articles about the library. Once they're all copied and labeled and in order and such, I report back to my boss. Then the info from the new/old articles will be incorporated into my history project that I just quasi-finished, and the articles will probably be entered into our historical file and database. In other words, lots of fussing with photocopiers, files and papers--which I like doing. Wootness! ^_^