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Make this author your friend, and tell her Jan sent you.

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kthxbai!

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Is it me?

There’s this real jackass who calls the library nearly every day and asks how many computers are open right now, but never makes a reservation or anything. He called today and just asked if any computers were open. I said, "Just a moment please," while I opened up the screen that shows computer usage. Then, without even holding the phone away from his mouth, he said to someone else in the room, "Why do they have to look in the computer? Can’t they just look and see if the computers are open?" I answered quite deliberately with, "There are computers open with no reservations scheduled on them," because that’s something you can’t tell just from looking. I really wanted to add that I had to look in the computer just in case his little ego decided it needed to know how many computers were open.

Then I get a call from a gentleman who asked politely, "Do you have any microfiche machines that can print?" I said that we did and he said, "And they can print?" I mean, did he think I was lying to him or something?

I probably shouldn’t be allowed around people today. Or maybe people shouldn’t be allowed around me.

8:30 AM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

I laughed

We wanted to watch Shoot ’em Up last night but Nico wanted to watch The Simpsons again. (Yeah, I know, we’re such great parents.) So I made a deal with Nico that if he didn’t laugh in the first ten minutes we’d turn it off and watch Simpsons instead. Well, he didn’t even make it past the opening scene where the logo for New Line Cinemas gets shot up. But he said it didn’t count. Then he said, "If I laugh I’m just joking." He’s a smart kid. But well within the ten minute time limit he laughed. Then he said, "I laughed." He cracks me up.

5:22 PM - 2 Comments - 4 Kudos - Add Comment

t - h - e
Current mood: amused

I just had a patron call to see if we had a book and he spelled the title for me, starting with the word "the." Apparently you really don’t need a master’s degree to do this job when the patrons are so knowledgable and helpful.

Currently reading : How I Live Now By Meg Rosoff Release date: 11 April, 2006

11:22 AM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

Best Out of Context Quote of the Year
Current mood: amused

It doesn't matter that it's only February. I seriously doubt I'll see anything else to top this one:

"How do I get boys to come?"

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One Down...

I've never actually taken the time to sit down and write out my life's ambitions, but there a few that I'm sure would make the cut:

1) Play the part of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar on Stage

2) Write a novel

3) Visit Ireland to trace my family's history

I can officially check one of these off my list now. I just finished writing/editing/proofing my first novel. It's done. I still can't quite believe it. Of course, now the hard work starts: trying to get it published.

3:07 PM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

More cows...

The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
~Ogden Nash

Cows are groovy,
Cows are great.
Cows are yummy
On my plate.
~author unkown, maybe it was me

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How Now Brown Cow

I almost died last night. We were coming home from my in-laws out in the country and there was a cow standing just on the side of the road. If my husband hadn't swerved at the last moment (this cow was pitch black and neither of us saw it even though we were watching vigilantly for deer and such) I'm sure my side of the car would have wrapped around her and I would have died. How weird is that? After everything I've survived, I was almost done in by a cow?

6:39 PM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

Ick.

Just had a patron come up to the desk and say, "I need some books about..."

And I just knew the next words out of her mouth (and I'm using that word loosely) were NOT going to be "dental health."

I'm so going to Hell.

12:48 PM - 3 Comments - 3 Kudos - Add Comment

AAAAARRRGH

Why on earth is the "Cancel" button so damn close to the "Preview & Post" button?!?! I just lost a post I'd spent about 10 minutes writing. How about a "Are you sure you want to cancel?" warning box or something? Computer desingers just don't get that people screw up and it's their job to protect us from ourselves!

Currently reading : Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River By Thomas Sugrue Release date: January, 1997

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