So I'm back from Hawaii. It was seriously one of the best vacations I've had. Why do you ask? Well, I did absolutely nothing. I just read and slept and read some more. It was great.
Now you may ask why I don't just do that at home.. well have you ever tried to do that at home? It's quite difficult. Every time I take a nap or sit and read or do nothing I feel guilty. There is always so much to do that I never really relax until I take off somewhere.
I ended up reading 8 books. I'm quite happy about this. Even though I didn't reach my 50 books by June 1st goal, I'm still plowing through and I really believe that I'll be able to make it to 100 by the end of the year.
I'm getting ready to move. I literally CAN. NOT. WAIT. to move. I really feel positive about this whole situation and the direction my life is moving in. Now if only I could get a second job and I'd be set!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Counting down the days
I feel like I'm back in school again. Well, technically I'm still in school, but I feel like I'm back in K-12 school again. I have exactly 5 days left in my position as a library media specialist. I work today, Wednesday, and Thursday and then I'm off for a week because on Friday I'm jetting off to Hawaii and then I work the Monday and Tuesday when I return and then I'M DONE!
I'm slightly excited by this because it means I don't have to get up at 4 in the morning to drive to work. I'm slightly sad by this because it means I don't have a second job (although working at school, the district allows me to take part of my paycheck each month and save it so I can get paid over the summer, SUPER SMART IDEA!!!).
Recently I've been applying for new jobs (in addition to my one as a library assistant at the public library), so far I haven't heard anything. I just turned in applications and I'm sure there are tons of people applying but this makes me nervous none-the-less. I would be very happy to know that when I come back from Hawaii or when the school year starts next year I'll have a second income. It would certainly take the stress off me a bit.
Speaking of stress, I'm a little stressed about the job situation BECAUSE I AM MOVING!!! I'm going to be moving to the town that my public library job is in. In fact, I'll be moving 1 block up and 2 blocks over from my job which means I can walk to work. I've never had a job where I could walk to work. In fact over the past 4 years all my jobs have been at least a 30mile/30 minute drive one way. That's right, AT LEAST 30 minutes away.
You can understand why I am so excited about this situation. Plus I'll be moving closer to my family and friends and since I only moved away to go to college (and honestly I live about 70 miles away from where I grew up) nobody wants to come visit me. So I'm really excited to be back closer to them. At least in the same county. WOOT!
So, in recap. I'm kind of sad, happy, and nervous all at the same time and I can't wait for summer vacation to begin. :)
I'm slightly excited by this because it means I don't have to get up at 4 in the morning to drive to work. I'm slightly sad by this because it means I don't have a second job (although working at school, the district allows me to take part of my paycheck each month and save it so I can get paid over the summer, SUPER SMART IDEA!!!).
Recently I've been applying for new jobs (in addition to my one as a library assistant at the public library), so far I haven't heard anything. I just turned in applications and I'm sure there are tons of people applying but this makes me nervous none-the-less. I would be very happy to know that when I come back from Hawaii or when the school year starts next year I'll have a second income. It would certainly take the stress off me a bit.
Speaking of stress, I'm a little stressed about the job situation BECAUSE I AM MOVING!!! I'm going to be moving to the town that my public library job is in. In fact, I'll be moving 1 block up and 2 blocks over from my job which means I can walk to work. I've never had a job where I could walk to work. In fact over the past 4 years all my jobs have been at least a 30mile/30 minute drive one way. That's right, AT LEAST 30 minutes away.
You can understand why I am so excited about this situation. Plus I'll be moving closer to my family and friends and since I only moved away to go to college (and honestly I live about 70 miles away from where I grew up) nobody wants to come visit me. So I'm really excited to be back closer to them. At least in the same county. WOOT!
So, in recap. I'm kind of sad, happy, and nervous all at the same time and I can't wait for summer vacation to begin. :)
Monday, June 6, 2011
I seriously never do this
but I figured what the heck. A blog that I read, Oh Happy Day is giving away a trip to Paris. I WOULD LOVE TO GO TO PARIS! You probably would too. So check it out http://ohhappyday.com/2011/06/goes-to-paris
<3 The teenage librarian
<3 The teenage librarian
Sunday, June 5, 2011
No words.
So the school year is coming to an end and I'm kind of sad about it. I'm going to miss my kids next year, and they all seem to know that I'm not coming back. I've told them that I'm moving and that's the truth. My goal is to move back to my home city/county by the end of summer. It'd be the best since I'd be close to my other job (as in not a 30-45 minute commute) and close to my family (which is nice since I have a crazy brother who has high drama). What's a real bummer is that I'm bascially going to be missing the whole last week of school because of furloughs. Where will I be spending my furloughs you ask? Hawaii. But I'm still kind of bummed to miss seeing my kids and signing yearbooks.
Speaking of yearbooks I ordered one. I'm glad I did so I can remember my year at this school. It was fun and I'm glad I did it, even if it did require me to wake up really early to get to work (HELLO 4AM!).
I'm excited to hit up Hawaii too, this will be my first real vacation with my new iPad. I've loaded a bunch of books on it and have already started reading some. I think I'm going to enjoy having an ebook reader!
Now for a little gem I was asked yesterday.
Middle school aged boy (probably 8th grade or so) came up to me and asked if I had books on the Civil War and the proceeded to ask if I knew what the Civil War was. I told him that I did, indeed, know what the Civil War was and pointed him in the direction of our books on the subject. But seriously? Do people not know what the Civil War was? REALLY?! Ugh.
Speaking of yearbooks I ordered one. I'm glad I did so I can remember my year at this school. It was fun and I'm glad I did it, even if it did require me to wake up really early to get to work (HELLO 4AM!).
I'm excited to hit up Hawaii too, this will be my first real vacation with my new iPad. I've loaded a bunch of books on it and have already started reading some. I think I'm going to enjoy having an ebook reader!
Now for a little gem I was asked yesterday.
Middle school aged boy (probably 8th grade or so) came up to me and asked if I had books on the Civil War and the proceeded to ask if I knew what the Civil War was. I told him that I did, indeed, know what the Civil War was and pointed him in the direction of our books on the subject. But seriously? Do people not know what the Civil War was? REALLY?! Ugh.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Dealing with Crazy today
Today I had two of my more paranoid patrons to deal with.
Crazy1 is totally paranoid. He thinks that people are messing with his computer or that people who sit across from him at the library computers are controlling his computer. It's crazy. He's also in the middle of lawsuit against his landlord who he believes has broken into his apartment, stolen his stuff, and tapped his phone and internet. He then believes that his lawsuit against his landlord was thrown out because the judge was a member of his former church which he was excommunicated from for being gay. Oh, did I mention he is an author? Anyways in what I believe to be uncharacteristic for Crazy1, he has decided to create a facebook account. I am honestly surprised at this but hey what the heck. So he's set up his facebook account and he doesn't understand how facebook works. So I'm helping him out by trying to explain the difference between his profile and his author page. He wants to join groups and then invite all those members to be his friends. I'm trying to explain to him that he can't really do that. One, you don't really have access to a group or page's members and two, people don't usually want to friend you if they don't know you. He kept going on and on about how his page doesn't have any personal information on it and it's just fine and I'm trying to explain to him why it's not fine and how people don't want to share THEIR personal information with him. It would be easier for him to try to promote his page and let people "like" his page rather than friend him on facebook. Le sigh. I don't know if he gets it. But I'm regretting letting him know that I have facebook knowledge. All my coworkers were smart and feigned ignorance. Smart smart smart people!!!
Crazy2 is this guy that has been coming in for the past year or so. He is always doing research on the computers and is accessing databases and ejournals from a school in Alabama. That's fine and great and all. But he also is extremely paranoid. Today he came up to me and told me that last Fall he had us send in a request to our IT department about a virus that was preventing him from accessing certain journals via his school's library. I was very skeptical about this situation but he was adament that our IT department fixed it. I had him show me how he accessed his journals and sure enough there was an issue where the page did not load after a certain point. I even replicated the problem on my computer at the reference desk. But the thing is, the guy wouldn't listen to me. I tried to explain to him that, I'm pretty technically savvy and it honestly seems like a connection problem with the libraries site. In fact there was even a warning at the top of the page that users were having issues with the school's private network. A network that allowed remote access. Some how he thinks this is a virus and it's computer warfare and that our IT guys since we're in CA and have a heavy military presence will have the knowledge and capability to fix this issue. I tried to reiterate that it honestly seems like an issue with thier network and that he should contact that school and see if they are having issues, but he thinks that we can solve this issue. Or at least our IT guys can.
The thing is, the guy claims he is a PhD. And in fact I can see that he has had some very scientific papers published. But he is convinced that his issues are caused by computer viruses and computer warfare. He is convinced that our network goes down because we are being attacked by viruses and terrorists. In reality our network goes down because our system is pretty antiquated.
Oh the library <3
Crazy1 is totally paranoid. He thinks that people are messing with his computer or that people who sit across from him at the library computers are controlling his computer. It's crazy. He's also in the middle of lawsuit against his landlord who he believes has broken into his apartment, stolen his stuff, and tapped his phone and internet. He then believes that his lawsuit against his landlord was thrown out because the judge was a member of his former church which he was excommunicated from for being gay. Oh, did I mention he is an author? Anyways in what I believe to be uncharacteristic for Crazy1, he has decided to create a facebook account. I am honestly surprised at this but hey what the heck. So he's set up his facebook account and he doesn't understand how facebook works. So I'm helping him out by trying to explain the difference between his profile and his author page. He wants to join groups and then invite all those members to be his friends. I'm trying to explain to him that he can't really do that. One, you don't really have access to a group or page's members and two, people don't usually want to friend you if they don't know you. He kept going on and on about how his page doesn't have any personal information on it and it's just fine and I'm trying to explain to him why it's not fine and how people don't want to share THEIR personal information with him. It would be easier for him to try to promote his page and let people "like" his page rather than friend him on facebook. Le sigh. I don't know if he gets it. But I'm regretting letting him know that I have facebook knowledge. All my coworkers were smart and feigned ignorance. Smart smart smart people!!!
Crazy2 is this guy that has been coming in for the past year or so. He is always doing research on the computers and is accessing databases and ejournals from a school in Alabama. That's fine and great and all. But he also is extremely paranoid. Today he came up to me and told me that last Fall he had us send in a request to our IT department about a virus that was preventing him from accessing certain journals via his school's library. I was very skeptical about this situation but he was adament that our IT department fixed it. I had him show me how he accessed his journals and sure enough there was an issue where the page did not load after a certain point. I even replicated the problem on my computer at the reference desk. But the thing is, the guy wouldn't listen to me. I tried to explain to him that, I'm pretty technically savvy and it honestly seems like a connection problem with the libraries site. In fact there was even a warning at the top of the page that users were having issues with the school's private network. A network that allowed remote access. Some how he thinks this is a virus and it's computer warfare and that our IT guys since we're in CA and have a heavy military presence will have the knowledge and capability to fix this issue. I tried to reiterate that it honestly seems like an issue with thier network and that he should contact that school and see if they are having issues, but he thinks that we can solve this issue. Or at least our IT guys can.
The thing is, the guy claims he is a PhD. And in fact I can see that he has had some very scientific papers published. But he is convinced that his issues are caused by computer viruses and computer warfare. He is convinced that our network goes down because we are being attacked by viruses and terrorists. In reality our network goes down because our system is pretty antiquated.
Oh the library <3
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
When I was in 6th grade Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and 1 teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. I can specifically remember watching the TV in school that day in Mrs. Hamud's 6th grade class. I don't know why we were allowed to watch it. It was on in the background but I can vividly remember watching it. I remember going home that day and watching the coverage at home and seeing the students running from the school. I remember seeing the SWAT guys. And I remember the ongoing coverage after the shooting, the Trenchcoat Mafia, the fact that they listened to Marilyn Manson, and how violence in music and the media might have caused them to do this horrible thing. Mockingbird is the story of an autistic girl who loses her brother to a school shooting. She's trying to navigate her life as an autistic person who doesn't like change and has trouble with seeing emotions in others when a beloved family member is taken from her. Although her brother's death is devastating, it allows Caitlin to progress as a person. Her search for closure ends up bringing her more than just closure but the ability to recognize emotions and empathy for others.
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