Alone for three days...sort of

Mom and Dad left to go to some comic convention and left us cats alone. Maggie kept hogging the computer and Bengal wouldn't get out of my favorite window. I did manage to wrestle the television remote so I could watch hours of Doctor Who on the BBC. Then the best thing ever! Grandma and Grandpa came over and gave us WET food!!! I love them. Maggie hissed at Grandma for not being mom. She's so stupid some times.

Glee

I think Glee may have "jumped the shark" as you humans say. Last year it had lots of great plots with great music accompanying it. This year it's all fluff and no story at all. The slide started with the Britney Spears episode. Yawn. It's true I don't really care about Britney Spears, I mean I would probably go to a concert if I got free tickets (and they let cats in) but I'm not buying any of her songs. That said, what was the real point of that episode? Did the plot further anymore? It was just a sad excuse to promote Ms. Spears. I wonder who she paid off...hmmm.

So last night I was all excited about the Rocky Horror episode because I LOVE Rocky Horror but it was just ho hum blah. Come on, Mercedes as Dr. Frankenfurter. As If! It'd have been more edgy if they got one of the boys to play Frankenfurter. I know they were supposed to be adapting it for high school but they could get a scantily clad boy for once. I did like the sly use of the word "sensational" in place of "trans-sexual". Nicely done.

The original still rocks more. The end.

Security guards at the library

We've had: The nineteen year old kid who played DDR with the teens and had a picture of himself drinking out of a whiskey bottle on his myspace page.

The lunch lady

The pregnant lady who spent all of her time in the bathroom throwing up.

The racist lady from the Eastern bloc who told a woman she wasn't fit to have children and doubted the father of the child was still around.

The depressed guy whose wife just died. He speculated that her sister poisoned her. We didn't want him around with a gun.

Grandpa who gave a guy five dollars not to bug people in the library for money. In return he made the guy give up a (stolen?) sander he was trying to sell.

Summer's coming

And it won't be pretty. Once again we're down a librarian. I wish I hadn't had the bright idea of doing a Camp Half-Blood ala Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It is much more work than I'd thought. It should be fun though. Right? Right? Right?

Lily: Whatever you say mom.

Dammit Jim, I'm a librarian, not a punching bag

Exhibit A. "I put a two books on hold this morning and I thought I'd check to see if you had them on hold for me."
"We don't have that book in the library so it'll take three to five business days to get there."
"It said the book was there and I need two copies for my kid's report tonight. It needs to say it's going to take three to five days online when you order the book."
"Um."
"you need to tell someone that they need to put that on the site."
"Okay"
"I mean I know you can't do anything because you're just a librarian, but you need to tell someone....blah blah blah."

And lady, you a. need to learn to read and b. not yell at me.

Exhibit B. "I'm in Chicago and I need to renew a book."
"Okay what's your card number" Pull up record, renew. "Okay sir, your book is now due on April 24 and you have a late fee of $3.50"

"But I called to renew. And I still get a late fee?"
"The book was late, it was due on March whatever."
Heavy sigh. Hang up.

Are You Kidding Me?

The new bright idea for the library to generate revenue is to sell hunting and fishing licenses or possibly do passports photos and all. So that means library staff will have to take pictures and if it's passports the patrons will want us to help them fill it out. It will be worse than the free tax program. I say sure, just do it at the Central library where it's like a tomb and not at the busy branches that don't have enough staff.

Bummed on a Spring Day

Lily's Mom here: I went to the funeral of one of my blogger friends today. She was the most consistent follower of Lily's blog. Her name is Ginger and she wrote taxicab of the absurd. Ginger was a children's librarian who would play and sing in addition to storytelling. I did hear her sing at a storytime when I filled in at Landa and I thought it was a really cool idea. I knew Ginger mainly through her blog and a few emails. I am very sad not to have gotten to know her better, from everything I've heard, she sounds like the perfect rolemodel for me (an aspiring children's librarian). Her funeral included a storytime for children and one of my favorite songs "I'll Fly Away." It's a beautiful day today and I hope Ginger is flying!