Randomness!
Yesterday I got home from work completely exhausted, and I couldn't figure out why, until I counted up and realized I had been working for 11 hour straight. OK, that'll do it...
I was working late because I went to give a presentation on LEGO robotics. The city has a program where people can apply to come take classes one evening a week for several weeks on what all the different departments in the city do. They get nice dinners at every class, and t-shirts, and it's a cool way to see what goes on behind the scenes and be better informed as voters or in case they want to run for city council someday. The presentation before mine was kind of long, and I was a bit worried that people would no longer be paying attention, but apparently the OH, HAI I AM HERE WITH A WORKING ROBOT AND AN EXTREMELY ARTICULATE NINE-YEAR-OLD perked them right back up. The kid who came to represent his team was the star of the show, and he deserved to be - he did a great job.
Today I had the day off! Since I work Tuesdays-Saturdays, whenever there is a Monday holiday I'm supposed to take a different day off. This hardly ever actually happens, because I am salaried and I'm supposed to work until the work is done, and since I keep ending up with new and different work, yeah, it is not easy to find time to take a day off. But I didn't have any desk shifts today, so today was my Martin Luther King Day holiday. I slept late and took a nap. Then I got really confused because when I woke up it was dark. (And there was a cat on my head, but that's pretty usual around here.)
Tomorrow we're putting up a display for Children's Illustrated Book Week. We asked all the staff to tell us their favorite picture books so that we can put them on display. I don't know whether this will be a hit with patrons, but it definitely has been for the staff! I'm making a bookmark with all of the titles listed so that when people come in *after* some of the display books have checked out, they can still see the whole list and put them on reserve to check out later. I had to make the bookmark double sided and keep making the font smaller to get all the books on it!
Here's some of the books:
Cookies: Bite-Sized Life Lessons
The Little House
Me... Jane (This was mine - I love it!)
Waiting for Winter
Otters Under Water
Cat's Colors
The Fortune Tellers
They're all GREAT! If you're in the market for picture books, you can't go wrong with these. :)
I was working late because I went to give a presentation on LEGO robotics. The city has a program where people can apply to come take classes one evening a week for several weeks on what all the different departments in the city do. They get nice dinners at every class, and t-shirts, and it's a cool way to see what goes on behind the scenes and be better informed as voters or in case they want to run for city council someday. The presentation before mine was kind of long, and I was a bit worried that people would no longer be paying attention, but apparently the OH, HAI I AM HERE WITH A WORKING ROBOT AND AN EXTREMELY ARTICULATE NINE-YEAR-OLD perked them right back up. The kid who came to represent his team was the star of the show, and he deserved to be - he did a great job.
Today I had the day off! Since I work Tuesdays-Saturdays, whenever there is a Monday holiday I'm supposed to take a different day off. This hardly ever actually happens, because I am salaried and I'm supposed to work until the work is done, and since I keep ending up with new and different work, yeah, it is not easy to find time to take a day off. But I didn't have any desk shifts today, so today was my Martin Luther King Day holiday. I slept late and took a nap. Then I got really confused because when I woke up it was dark. (And there was a cat on my head, but that's pretty usual around here.)
Tomorrow we're putting up a display for Children's Illustrated Book Week. We asked all the staff to tell us their favorite picture books so that we can put them on display. I don't know whether this will be a hit with patrons, but it definitely has been for the staff! I'm making a bookmark with all of the titles listed so that when people come in *after* some of the display books have checked out, they can still see the whole list and put them on reserve to check out later. I had to make the bookmark double sided and keep making the font smaller to get all the books on it!
Here's some of the books:
Cookies: Bite-Sized Life Lessons
The Little House
Me... Jane (This was mine - I love it!)
Waiting for Winter
Otters Under Water
Cat's Colors
The Fortune Tellers
They're all GREAT! If you're in the market for picture books, you can't go wrong with these. :)