I'm a slayer, ask me how.

Tomorrow, we open the doors to the library for the public to come in.

10am - 7pm

My branch is very small and we are limiting entry to 12 people at one time to start things out. We're limiting computer use to an hour. We are hoping that people will come in, get what they need, and head out.

And I am really hoping that everyone shows up with a mask.

We has masks to give away, thank goodness. But I am worried about getting some non-masked people who just don't want to wear it. And to them I will say "goodbye" because it's the rule right now to wear a mask and they should be used to it after so many months.

Anyway, send me positive vibes, fingers crossed etc. for tomorrow please. And this week.

Crazy random happenstance - this happens to be the one year anniversary of when I started as a manager LOL. It's like I'm starting all over again!

First week of work went really well. It is hard wearing the mask all day but we all found time to kind of sneak away and breath. We're a small group so it wasn't too hard to social distance and we were all wearing masks so even if we did get a bit closer than we should have, we weren't breathing on each other.

The good news is that we are not opening to the public until July 6th (initially it was June 15). We are starting curbside and phone service tomorrow. Curbside is a BRAND NEW service so we have no idea what to expect from our patrons. We have SO MANY BOOKS on the hold shelf right now, hopefully they do not all show up tomorrow LOL.

The world is on fire and I have swung back and forth all week, looking at the news, then hiding from it. I've donated money to several organizations and I can't really think of what else to do besides social media support, emailing representatives etc. I am not brave enough to go to a protest. Just looking at the images of all the people gives me anxiety and you all know I dealt with crowds at PAX and what not. But I will try my best to be better, do better.

So, yeah, still playing Animal Crossing every day for a moment of mindless fun. My crokinole board arrived last week also and I LOVE it. I wish Tim liked it LOL. He just doesn't like games he can't win? I still love him though...I guess. :P Sylvia played with me and she enjoyed it. I'm thinking about visiting my parents, maybe wearing our masks and playing outside, if it is a nice day. That would probably be safest.

I'm wondering if I could visit them before July 6th. We've been pretty safe, and I feel like my staff has also been following the rules so I doubt any of us have the virus. But once we start working with patrons, all bets will be off. So maybe...I dunno. It's a thing in my brain.

I also did a bit of retail therapy and ordered some tabletop games from a local store to support them. And I had a coupon for an online store so I ordered some more miniatures to paint. Of course no one will play with me right now but whatever. I also backed a few games on Kickstarter because I HAVE A PROBLEM! But those won't show up any time soon.

Okay, need to get to bed and read for a bit. I started Accused! The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice and the Fourteenth amendment because I had it in my pile at work and this felt like the right time. The saddest part is, if I tweeted the headlines in this book, you wouldn't be able to tell they were from 1931...you'd think they were from yesterday. And people don't believe there is a problem.

Everyone stay safe, stay healthy, and support change. We won't fix things by tomorrow, but we can get things moving in the right direction.

Monday is currently my "late day" - working the 12:45-9 shift.

But at my previous position, I worked Weds/Thurs as my late shifts and so my body still thinks "OH hey, we got to sleep in, must be Wednesday!" and I'm like "no, body, no. This is just the beginning."

I can't wait until January when I flip back to my Wednesdays. Especially now that I'm a manager. Too much "stuff" can happen over the weekend and too many things are due on Monday mornings, I would rather be there at the start of the day. Like, today I need to rush in an double check timecards because they are due. It's not a huge deal with my small staff, and my Librarian usually takes care of it for me, but it's the principal of the thing, I feel like I should be there!

Um...yeah I was just killing time until I need to leave for work so thanks for reading! :D

I debated going by the library yesterday. It was my day off but we were hosting the Drag Queen Story Time, which I knew was going to be a huge deal. I ended up texting back and forth with my manager (it was her last day before retirement LOL) and things went relatively smoothly until the the second one started, then a protester came inside the library to start crap. BUT the police removed the man quickly. And let me say I now have a lot of respect for our new board member who was there with his granddaughter and also stepped in-between the shouter and the children. I'm just hoping they post another article with the positive things from the program and photos from the days event (the picture here was from the previous DQST that another of our branches hosted last October).

The staff in charge of the program put their hearts into it 110% and I'm so glad it went well apart from that one tiny incident. Both shows were FULL, so that is over 300 people who came to the library for the program so you can't deny that people wanted to see the program, that they wanted their children to have a fun time and learn that it is okay to be who you are, embrace the real you.



And this is my face as we approach my final week at my current library branch. I'm excited for the change and, of course, freaking out more and more every day. I've already decided that the toughest thing I will make myself do that first week on the job will be choosing which action figures come to live on my new desk to keep me company.

Today, I bid farewell to my manager for the past ten years. She's retiring and we're having a party this afternoon. I've been trying not to cry on her but I probably will today. She's just been an amazing mentor, so supportive, the kind of manager everyone should have and the one I will strive to be like as I start my career in that position.

I'm hoping my final selfie of the month will be with her as my special guest.

...though I should probably go shower or she isn't going to want to stand next to me! LOL TTFN

It’s summer time and that means magic time! Joe Romano stopped by this afternoon to wow 3 audiences full of excited kids. Always fun to watch them think they have it all figured out only to be surprised by the reveal.

It was busy busy from start to finish today. First show of the summer and we had over 100 people for the first program. I was wiped by 5!

I've also realized that I can only play Horizon: Zero Dawn on weekends. That game is just too epic to try to only play for an hour. I need at least 2-3 hours of game time in a row and I can't do that on a weeknight without staying up WAY TOO LATE.

Weeknights are apparently for Steam games. I'm inconsistent with those because I keep remembering things I bought and stopped playing. Though I have made some headway on Shenmue and even though it is old, I want to find out who murdered his father and why!

I'm playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney at lunch, which is so much fun even though I'm sure I'm annoying everyone in the backroom with my constant giggles and the Switch vibrating every time I cross-examine a witness.

I work 1-9 on Wednesdays and Thursdays so I didn't go on my computer when I got home, hence the not posting them. But I did do them! This might be a record for me when it comes to daily memes. :P



Taken in the teen section of our library right around closing so as not to weird people out LOL. June is Pride Month and, of course, GLBT book month. There are SO MANY great books with LGBTQ+ characters out now. I mean, not nearly as many as S/W/M but still more than there ever was when I was growing up. "What If Its Us" is still one of the sweetest first love romances I have ever read. I saw a girl with it in her pile the other day and I might have "SQUEE'D!" at her for her selection.



This is my post-interview face. I think it went well. I swear, when I go into an interview, all the adrenaline goes to my brain and it feels like I am in a trance. Then it is all over and I'm like "OMG WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?" I'm a little worried I might have been too casual - I knew everyone on the interview panel so it felt like I was just chatting with coworkers. But hopefully I hit on all the points I needed to. The thing that was so frustrating was that most of these were questions I had on my LAST manager interview. So I should have aced them...blah. Of course, I spent the rest of the day going over it all in my head. Luckily, I had a school visit about an hour later so that distracted me. But OMG SO EXHAUSTED! I went to bed at 10:30, UNHEARD OF for me. But I was just beyond drained.

Today is my day off! It's 12:30 and I'm still in my PJs. But I just finished my coffee so I guess I shall shower and try to do something semi-productive...like laundry. My favorite chore since the machine does the bulk of it and I just have to listen for the beep. :)

SNOW DAY TOMORROW!



We found out around 8:30 that the library will be closed tomorrow. Weather is supposed to be a MESS all day long, so I'm really glad they aren't making anyone go in. Plus Thursday it is supposed to go up in temperature so hopefully that will make clean up easier on the custodial staff.

Only downside is that tomorrow was going to be my first bilingual (Spanish/English) storytime all by myself, and I was all prepared. Now I'll have to wait until March to try it out.

Trying to finish the main quest for Witcher 3 because I need to have some closure. Kind of like Fallout: New Vegas, I want to complete the main quest and then I'll go dabble in the DLC later.

Anyway, I was running around, doing very serious monster hunting with Geralt and I knocked a bandit off of his horse. Apparently this rocked the horse's world and when I came back down the road a few minutes later, he was doing this:



UGH click through to see the video, for some reason Flickr won't/can't embed a video or maybe Dreamwidth can't handle it. It's probably not that funny but at 11:30 last night, my brain thought it was hilarious!

TMI but my period hit me with a vengeance today. I was a couple days late and it was like Mother Nature looked at her watch and was like "OH SHIT! SORRY!" and just BAM! ...luckily I am paranoid and always have emergency supplies in my work bag. So, another bonus for tomorrow is that I can just sleep because usually when this happens I am wiped the next day.

I'm going to do another post later and ramble about Fallout: New Vegas because a few of you were cool with that. And I think I might start the book cover meme that is going around because you all know I have access to plenty of books!

Don't worry, I haven't abandoned you! I've abandoned EVERYONE!!!!

The running gag at work right now is WHO AM I? Because I am never in the building. I've been out visiting schools and going to boring meetings for the past two weeks with no time to sit and think and read email or even spend a moment catching up on DW/LJ.

So, yeah, whoops! I'm not ignoring your posts, I'm either skimming them very quickly or they are sitting in my inbox so I can read through them and leave answers months after you post them so you can go "wait, what?" when you get my random reply.

Hope all is well. Schedule for next week is looking a little insane too so I expect I will still be MIA from the online world, except for Twitter which I've been using more often recently...maybe because two sentences at a time is all I can handle right now!

TTFN!

Well, I don’t have the flu but I definitely have a cold plus !bonus! my period started this morning so I pretty much made into through two 30 minute babies programs on sheer will and coffee and the magical alka seltzer cold medicines. I got the program ready for tomorrow and then left and slept the restaurant of the day. I have a feeling tomorrow will be the same. I mean, I have 900 hours of sick leave so its not a problem on that end but we are just losing people left and right still!

So yes I will muster up some energy from 10:30-11:30 tomorrow and then probably crash hard after that.

It’s been a long couple of weeks, ready for spring if only because I’m done with viruses and the fear of them.

Oh my gosh, this month is kicking my butt but in a good way?

Sorry I've been MIA for the past few weeks but it is Back to School season and due to some scheduling madness, I've been the only one available to go out to the schools. My days have been flipped to nights, my nights to day and to top it off, I am working tomorrow.

But don't cry for me LJ friends - tomorrow I am working at Annapolis Comic Con.

So I'm essentially getting paid to go do something I would have done anyway LOL. It is going to be great. And this year I'm taking 3 coworker/friends with me instead of just one and we are going to try some new things, like having one of them dress as our library mascot. I cannot wait to see Sneaks the Library Cat interacting with a Dalek.

Anyway, I keep trying to skim my flist when I can but I am woefully behind and I apologize. Things should settle down soon though I have meetings and more outreach next weekend (Baltimore Book festival! Again, no need to shed tears for that one! Also, COME SEE ME!)

Okay, I need to get to bed! Coffee can only do so much for my personality when the sun comes up, need to sleep a bit! <3

TTFN