Another Good Day
I think I'm really going to like my job. :D
I had another really nice day today--I did a project that needed to be done, worked on the file I'm making that takes the instructions I've been given and turns them into procedures and reminders and so on, and got some training on how to upload things to the website. I'm going to take over some of that starting tomorrow and if it goes well, I'll take over more of it starting next week. :D
I also made strides toward resolving an issue .
When I was setting up my voicemail yesterday, I found a message that had been left for the previous person in my job. Apparently one of the judges in Baltimore County just moved into new chambers and found that the collection of Maryland Reports (a series of books that has all the decisions of the Court of Appeals going back to the foundation of the state in the 1700s) and Maryland Appellate Reports (same thing for the published decisions of the Court of Special Appeals) in the chambers was missing everything since the start of 2003. Could we, the message went on, arrange for the judge to get a subscription and for replacements of the missing volumes.
All I knew yesterday morning when I got this message was that I'm responsible for making sure the courts' decisions are properly published in those two series of books (among other things). My response to the voicemail was "GLEEP". So I took the message to BD, my boss. Her response was pretty much the same and she promptly called the previous person to find out how to handle this.
LM, the previous person, said that we need to hook the judge up with a new subscription, that our office manager should be able to find *some* of the books in our own archives, and that any he can't get we can get from the Law Library. She said to speak to someone in the library named "Scott".
I spoke to the judge's clerk to figure out exactly which volumes are missing--they're missing approximately 50 volumes in each series, apparently. Yikes!! That's a lot of wandering Thudding Tomes (these are all big books). The law clerk I've been speaking to has no idea what happened to them. Neither do we. Our guy found less than half of them in our archives, so a visit was Scott in the library was in order.
When I told BD I was going down to the law library (on the first floor of my building) to speak to Scott, I got solemnly warned by her that "he's a little weird" and "he doesn't speak much to people". I was thinking someone on the Autism spectrum, which would have been fine and somehow fit my stereotypes of someone who works in a library. Then she mentioned something about him talking about music and heavy metal and him telling her that he didn't have much in common with the others in the law library...okay, maybe not Aspberger's then.
It turns out that Scott a) is a musician (or at least used to play bass and synthesizer), b) is a neat guy and perfectly chatty if you have anything in common with him, c) met Patrick once many years ago (when they were both in college, and d) dated Patrick's first girlfriend (or as he put it, "Your husband's high-school ex is my college ex"). It was a fun conversation. He felt a bit like a kindred spirit, in fact. Or at least a bit like one of *Patrick's* kindred spirits, which means I was pretty inclined to like him. :D
Anyway, Scott said he should be able to have those assembled for me early next week. I'm hoping our guy can do the same and we can get the whole passel of them up to the judge by the end of the week. I've already sent off a letter to the publishers asking for a subscription for her, so by this time next week we should have the whole problem sorted out. ::fingers crossed::
I also got to meet the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals today--he actually went out of his way to come over to my office and introduce himself to me. He seems like a total sweetie. And wears a bow tie.
On the down-side, I missed my appointment with human resources to do paperwork and get my ID badge...which I really do kind of need. I was working and kind of flaked it. Fortunately, BD is taking that as a sign of diligence instead of dingbattery (yay!). And she rode the people in HR a bit--I've now got another appointment for tomorrow morning to do the paperwork, but I won't get the badge until Tuesday (Monday is a holiday). That works.
I don't like having to spend part of my precious evening Patrick-Time in here posting, but I don't want to fall off the planet either. We'll have to work something out...but for now, I'm going to go be with him. :D
I had another really nice day today--I did a project that needed to be done, worked on the file I'm making that takes the instructions I've been given and turns them into procedures and reminders and so on, and got some training on how to upload things to the website. I'm going to take over some of that starting tomorrow and if it goes well, I'll take over more of it starting next week. :D
I also made strides toward resolving an issue .
When I was setting up my voicemail yesterday, I found a message that had been left for the previous person in my job. Apparently one of the judges in Baltimore County just moved into new chambers and found that the collection of Maryland Reports (a series of books that has all the decisions of the Court of Appeals going back to the foundation of the state in the 1700s) and Maryland Appellate Reports (same thing for the published decisions of the Court of Special Appeals) in the chambers was missing everything since the start of 2003. Could we, the message went on, arrange for the judge to get a subscription and for replacements of the missing volumes.
All I knew yesterday morning when I got this message was that I'm responsible for making sure the courts' decisions are properly published in those two series of books (among other things). My response to the voicemail was "GLEEP". So I took the message to BD, my boss. Her response was pretty much the same and she promptly called the previous person to find out how to handle this.
LM, the previous person, said that we need to hook the judge up with a new subscription, that our office manager should be able to find *some* of the books in our own archives, and that any he can't get we can get from the Law Library. She said to speak to someone in the library named "Scott".
I spoke to the judge's clerk to figure out exactly which volumes are missing--they're missing approximately 50 volumes in each series, apparently. Yikes!! That's a lot of wandering Thudding Tomes (these are all big books). The law clerk I've been speaking to has no idea what happened to them. Neither do we. Our guy found less than half of them in our archives, so a visit was Scott in the library was in order.
When I told BD I was going down to the law library (on the first floor of my building) to speak to Scott, I got solemnly warned by her that "he's a little weird" and "he doesn't speak much to people". I was thinking someone on the Autism spectrum, which would have been fine and somehow fit my stereotypes of someone who works in a library. Then she mentioned something about him talking about music and heavy metal and him telling her that he didn't have much in common with the others in the law library...okay, maybe not Aspberger's then.
It turns out that Scott a) is a musician (or at least used to play bass and synthesizer), b) is a neat guy and perfectly chatty if you have anything in common with him, c) met Patrick once many years ago (when they were both in college, and d) dated Patrick's first girlfriend (or as he put it, "Your husband's high-school ex is my college ex"). It was a fun conversation. He felt a bit like a kindred spirit, in fact. Or at least a bit like one of *Patrick's* kindred spirits, which means I was pretty inclined to like him. :D
Anyway, Scott said he should be able to have those assembled for me early next week. I'm hoping our guy can do the same and we can get the whole passel of them up to the judge by the end of the week. I've already sent off a letter to the publishers asking for a subscription for her, so by this time next week we should have the whole problem sorted out. ::fingers crossed::
I also got to meet the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals today--he actually went out of his way to come over to my office and introduce himself to me. He seems like a total sweetie. And wears a bow tie.
On the down-side, I missed my appointment with human resources to do paperwork and get my ID badge...which I really do kind of need. I was working and kind of flaked it. Fortunately, BD is taking that as a sign of diligence instead of dingbattery (yay!). And she rode the people in HR a bit--I've now got another appointment for tomorrow morning to do the paperwork, but I won't get the badge until Tuesday (Monday is a holiday). That works.
I don't like having to spend part of my precious evening Patrick-Time in here posting, but I don't want to fall off the planet either. We'll have to work something out...but for now, I'm going to go be with him. :D