Sure, Happy Holidays and all that

I'm sure some of you are having happy holidays, but I am livid, I tell you LIVID! My parents had the audacity to get ANOTHER kitten. She's mostly black like me and cute, like me and has good fur, like me. So if she's alot like me, why do they have to get ANOTHER me. Okay, she is young and frisky and keeps Bengal from chasing me quite so much. But tell me when will the madness end? Will four cats be enough to make them stop adopting. I sure hope so because I'm not sharing any more food. Just so you know, if you're interested, her name is India.

Can't we all just get along

Woman on Phone: I just wanted to tell you there's a homeless man outside your building everyday at 3 when the kids get out of school.

Me: Is he doing anything to harrass the kids? Is he making trouble?

WoP: No, I just wanted you to know that he's there EVERY day just sitting out where the road curves in front of the library and there's children out there.

Me: Well, it's a public space and as long as he isn't doing anything inappropriate or making troubleI can't just kick him off the property.

WoP: You'll be sorry when he rapes one of the kids! Thank you (said sarcastically) -hangs up.

Duh

Patron: Can you show me how to delete these pictures off of my phone?
Reference: Can you pull them up?
Patron: No, my phone's not charged up.

Hmmm.
My recommendation for Reference:
Reference: Sure no problem. (Takes phone and pulls out a large hammer. Hammers phone to smithereens. Hands pieces back to patron).
Reference: Is there anything else I can help you with?

closer to sadness

Mom speaks:The closer we get to Oct. 1, the sadder I get. I just can't picture our library without V. She is the heart and soul of our branch. V. is always doing outside work for the benefit of her co-workers. She plans get togethers, creates cool t-shirts, bags, and many other excellent things designed to rally the troops. She's like our cheerleader. But, just because she's our computer guru, we're going to lose her. But see, that makes no sense because if anyone needs a computer nerd full-time it's our branch, the busiest one in the city. Every day and by that I mean EVERY DAY someone asks us something about the computer (mostly about problems trying to log on to the wifi) so now instead of giving even more excellent customer service, we have to say "I don't know anything about that." And by the time we call downtown, that patron will be gone and possibly fed up because we couldn't help them in a timely fashion. But that's not all V. is, a computer person. No V. is an excellent library assistant that is a master at reference. When I was a bright shiny new librarian, V. was extremely helpful in showing me how millenium ran and many, many other things about the reality of manning the reference desk.
Then there is C. She has only been with us about a year and a half, but she's really a part of our family. She also has great ideas and is a wonderful cheerleader. She might even make a good librarian some day if this doesn't dishearten her about libraries altogether.
And N. She has been with us a very short time, but fits in well here.
Everyone keeps telling me I should feel lucky because we all still have jobs. And I am grateful for that. But starting Oct. 1 I will be going to a workplace with a piece of my heart ripped out.

Trials and torments

Ah the exciting life of the cat who belongs to a librarian. Something going on about budget cuts and no pay raises. I am glad mom isn't losing her job, but she is very sad about losing people at work. I think she actually cried. I don't like it when she's sad. Apparently these things happen when you work for something called a government agency. Mom's worked for them all city, state and federal. It's all the same with higher ups cutting and making decisions without any input from the people being affected.

PS That stupid Bengal is still annoying, but it doesn't appear he's leaving any time soon.

Mom says: Read the Tushy Book for those children librarians out there.

Summer Reading....

is mostly finished. There's a few mopping up to be done, such as the last summer movie this week (Mall Cop) and the last Terrific (Terrible? Terrifying? Tremendous?) Teen Tuesday. I found the coolest game ever for the Wii called Rayman Raving Rabbids. That game is awesome. I think I want to dress up as one of the psychotic rabbits for Halloween. All I need is rabbit ears and a plunger. I'll wave the plunger in the air and yell really loud! Hee Hee!
My husband an I have been trying to unlock stuff on the game so the teens can play four player games on it. Lily and the other cats love the Wii because it's got a dangling cord they can try to play with.

Lily: Stupid human.

Lily's grounded

Lily's Mom: Lily bit me today. Very Very Hard. Two of her fangs stabbed my hand! I have been looking at bad things that happen to people who are punctured by cat teeth and it's not pretty. I just hope I washed it out enough. I really should stay away from googling in situations such as these. I did see a particularly horrible example of ringworm on this guy's head during my search. It was like the size of a grapefruit. On. His. Head. Ewwwwww!

Lily ususally play bites but I think she is mad about the new kitten. He and Maggie are already playing together but Lily is still wary about him. I will let Lily post again when she calms down.