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The Cat Woman- Batman Wedding apparel

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:13:10 GMT

https://www.polygon.com/comics/2018/3/7/17087296/catwoman-wedding-dress-batman-44-comic-joelle-jones-exclusive

One of the people I work with has decided on her wedding dress.

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So where I work...

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:20:38 GMT

We have refugee students from other countries. There was a problem with one student's ID and I looked up the student's schedule to see what teachers were listed.

There was the Reading teacher and then there an ESL class teacher.
However the class abbreviation for the ESL .... let's just say I asked my co-worker, "What does ENG1 SOL stand for?"

My co-worker started laughing.

So Okay "SOL" does not stand for Shit out of Luck.

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Fridays are always rough and today was 'interesting'

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:38:30 GMT

Me today -- these of course are Pallas or Manul cats.
https://www.boredpanda.com/pallas-cat-manul-funny-face-expressive/

More of them and as the day wore on-- please note no dead bodies resulted

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I need to remember that work could be much, much worse.

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:33:04 GMT

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Today was the first day back after the summer break

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:30:41 GMT

All I had to do was attend a Beginning of the Year Meeting. Easy 8 hours or should have been.

What was hard and sapped me of pretty much all my energy to the point of feeling nausea was the being lost and late. Took me an hour to find the building where the meeting was being held. Luckily I left 30 minutes early for a 15 min trip. Thank goodness for cell phones so I could call my boss and have her guide me in... well except it's illegal to drive and talk on the phone; which I did not do. Non-Absorbtion of information while in a panic is a failing of mine.

There was a university campus cop in his golf cart. I stopped in time at a stop sign and so didn't hit him. Don't know if he had right of way of not but I was panicking. Last time I got lost in that general area of the city, took me hours of wandering. No my cell phone doesn't have GPS. Yes I did write down the directions but that area, the street goes along then it changes its name and you have to turn sharply left onto another street before the T-intersection you reach becomes the original street's name if you turn to the right. Streets mysteriously disappear and reappear one block over after splitting in two into 2 separate streets and then the one you want goes around a curve.

Think I'll go to bed now. I'm going in early to make up the 30 min I was late. I can set up things and find the coffee maker and microwave from wherever I put it before summer break. Too they've been having meetings in the room this week and will tomorrow too. If I'm going to be crawling around on the floor, it would be nice not to do it while there are people in the room.

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Today AaaAAAAAAAAH

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 01:40:44 GMT

My Librarian was off to a state library convention this week, 3 days on my own. Me and the students. *W*

So of course the circulation program started acting 'odd'. Some books wouldn't check in, some wouldn't check out, some did both, but they were all in the library's catalog.

Okay, I worked around it. But first, I called the District's IT dept and the tech thought it was a program problem but just in case he ran a malware scan and clean up on my computer.

Turns out it wasn't only my library. Sooooo in the middle of the day, right after our Fire Drill, an email went out to log off of the circulation program so the program's company could work on it.
That's okay, there's a off-line version that can be used..... except the malware removal took off the off-line version.
So during one of the busiest days for my library's book circulation, I'm trying to find where the off-line program for circulation is stashed on the Library's District site, download it, activate it and use it.
All the while I'm using an Excel spreadsheet to retain the data as to who has checked out which of our books.
Also I'm hoping I downloaded things correctly so that when the fixed circulation program comes back it'll download to it.

Should be easy to just cut and past from the spreadsheet to the off-line program, I thought. Nope. Had to hand type in the patron numbers and book barcodes.

The students were so great. There was the odd 'but but but' from them, but the shelves were astonishingly in order. Okay a number of the students were gone on field trips to the schools that they will be attending next school year. And it helps when you can pivot the monitor to show them the 'this program is not available' notice on the circulation page and tell them, "see this is what is wrong. This is what I'm doing, ie spreadsheet. I can't help it, work with me here."

188 students from one school population and 22 from the other school population came through my tender hands. Most checked out 2 books each. Did I mention the Fire Drill? And the architects who are came through because they're planning improvements probably over the summer... I hope. Please please not during the next school year. That would be really terrible. One of the areas a hallway that is one of the a fire exits from the 2nd floor which just happens to be the access to the floor in between the 1st and 2nd floors and is home to the boiler room that sits atop where our library office and workroom are. At the moment that hallway is used by the theater class for their props. sssssshhhhhhhh it's a fire dept violation. The stage's side rooms have been used for storage of the other school and an office for the head custodian.

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Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:58:04 GMT

Title – Office Politics
Prompt - 222 - diatribe_ersatz_closure
Words - 100

All it needed was one sip and Josh was off, “What foul misbegotten idiot without any honest excuse for taste filled the coffee pot with decaf?!”

“Um that would be those of us who care about your health… and ours,” Nicholas answered from the back of the room of office cubicles.

“What does health have to do with taste?!”

“Says the person who eats mayo on his french fries. Poor health and taste,” another voice answered him.

“Hey! It’s good and, a personal choice, unlike this crap for coffee.”

“Josh, shut up and pour your coffee from the other pot.”

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mooooooooans

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:39:34 GMT

3 weeks off and a day of checking in, out, stretching to reach id cards and book barcodes to, and shelving...
moooooooans. 456 books so far checked out... so far.

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Beware of What you Ask for ...

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:44:01 GMT

At the beginning of the year students are asked to bring certain supplies to school. Things like paper towels, facial tissue, notebook paper, pencils. It’s voluntary, the district doesn’t provide these things.

This is what I sent out to teachers to tap this resource:

Please send facial tissues to the Library. We are about 1 student short of an empty box.

What resulted was very similar to the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. 3 separate teachers sent me massive quantities all pretty much at the same time as I was juggling with other projects. To prevent further facial tissue influx I quick fired off a thank you and enough message. My Librarian pointed out the error of my ways.

We have facial tissues that will keep us in blowing service for a very long time.
THANK YOU!

*head desk*

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