ladybranwen | A perfectly awful day. (Reply)

I have to agree with Judy Abbott, and say that the first Monday's of the month are perfectly awful days. Though, in the book it was a blue Wednesday. Things could not and would not go right at the library today. Driving to work, I was thinking, "yay! I get to stack lots of dvds and then do training for a break." Because that is all very exciting. Except, upon arriving to work, we were presented with whole stacks of books/dvds/audio books/etc that needed to be checked in, and no way to do it. Because our lovely library system/internet was down so we could do nothing. Time to whip out the pads of paper and do it the old fashioned way. At least, I thought to myself, I could get out of most of that because of training. Unfortunatly, it was web-based training, hence the importance of an internet connection. So, they sent me to Centreville to the main library branch to complete training there with Allison (their children's librarian). And that was all sorts of fun and excitment. The funny thing was that the Horizon demo program our instructor was using managed to break down toward the end of the instruction period, which does not bode well for when we have it for real, and then his telephone connection disconnected, but he didn't realize it, and all of us who were listening to him were bored of watching him move the mouse around the screen but not hear him say anything, so we all decided that it was time to leave the session. We do get more Mark fun tomorrow! Hoorah, I can't wait! Plus, it means I have to go to work early tomorrow. But still stay until 8.

When I got back to the library, everything was still a mess, dvds were piled high, and that was only a good thing if you wanted to borrow The Devil Wears Prada which is apparently the top movie everyone wants to see, goodness knows why. We had three copies just sitting there waiting to be put away and reshelved. I felt like running through the library yelling out that copies of that movie were available. Line right up! But, I didn't.

Came home with the intention of putting the heat up since it is so freezing cold out, only to discover an electric bill that was way higher than I wanted it to be, though after consultation with my father, he says it is probably what it should be for this time of year and don't be a silly goose and to turn up the heat. So I did, moderately.

But, I did read a good book tonight (Gossamer by Lois Lowery), watched a movie (Miracle) and transfered an online video (Le Roi Soleil) to dvd. All the while crocheting... something. So, I wasn't completely useless today.