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| Jinhao 159 fountain pen, purple |
Guess I'll just have to come up with some purple prose to write with it!
8/29
The faster I try to move, the more bogged down I get. Life must be a glue board - keeping us trapped in the universe until we die...
So disorganized am I
These days-
I roam from task to task
& always get sidetracked.
At least, here at home I do.
Start one thing, finish most of it
Get called to something else - this house is out to get me!
I never really thought about it before today, but perhaps the reason teaching exhausted me so was the fact that I'm an introvert, and schools are VERY people-filled places.
I enjoyed small group interactions with my students, but all day in a place so full of people just exhausted me emotionally and physically.
I still have feelings of being overwhelmed sometimes even when home.
All the little things that need doing that pile up - I feel I shall never have the energy to get them all done.
8/30
A day with storm potential,
But I bet we don't see any
Again looking at my writing and thinking my teachers must've despaired of me ever being able to write legibly. I know my printing was also atrocious.
My typing was also messy, until I got a modern word processing program. My brain goes far too fast for my hands to keep up. If I am copying something, it is usually better, but not by much.
And to think, they let me teach elementary school!
On the chalkboard, when I go slowly, my writing is much better, as long as there are lines. My printing is also much better on the board.
8/31
Hooray! Loud thunder!
I left the windows down on the car. It figures. OF COURSE it will rain!
No harm done, the windows were only cracked, and the wind was in my favor, so no water in the car!
9/1
A new month. Hoping for a quiet desk shift, not turning out that way so far. I have Zumba tonight, so as soon as I'm off the desk at 5, I have to set up and change.
Well, that's a new one. Someone mistook the photocopier for the print vend unit. It's quite distant from the public - use computers.
I keep itching to switch to a new journal, but this one isn't finished yet. There are too many notebooks started and done with before they were filled.
So I guess I'll have to drivel along here for awhile.
After all, it's not like I have anything important to say...
9/2
A day off, but still plenty to do
Clouds, but no rain.
Slept in, so no real time to contemplate this morning. Trying to function with a stuffy, achy , itchy head.
Hello, Ragweed
Who told you to come back early this year?
Tomorrow is Saturday, but it will be a busy day for me. My Saturday afternoon at the library, and there's an OU game, so Mike and Nancy will be here.
I get to leave about the time Mike will be showing up..
9/3
And the earth shook, and may voices of fear were raised upon the land...
That was the strongest quake we have ever felt here.
More like the ones I remember from California.
They can just stop it. Can't have earthquakes AND tornadoes. One or the other!
And so, now, to work.
For a wonder, no items were unshelved by the shaking. Would we have had to check them in as "in-house use"? After all, Mother Nature took them off the shelf!
Desk observations, or People are Funny Sometimes
Just helped a guy figure out how to find our new Community Center also called The Station at Central Park. It's almost across 4th from us, just a block up. We are next door to the OLD community center.
Helped distract a cranky baby so its mom could use the self-check.
Traded earthquake stories with a few people.
Bemoaned the loss of cursive writing with one customer. Recommended "The Missing Ink" which I am now reading.
Confessed that even still my own handwriting is pretty awful.
Greeted friend from church who was here to plan Girl Scout activities with another group leader. I remember when SHE was a 3rd grade Girl Scout, instead of an adult leader!
Tidy patrons today compared with Thursday. Only one self-check receipt left behind, and one basket not returned to the rack.
Got to see our Customer Experience manager when she came in with her young son to use the library.
Talked up our ebooks and audio books on Overdrive. Mentioned our app, handed out a few flyers about the app.
Relieved a young lady's anxiety over an old book whose spine broke and spilled sections of pages. We know about those. It isn't a customer's fault. That glue only lasts so long, through so many readings, before it dries out and cracks like that.
Directed yet another group of lost souls to the new community center.
Talked up the Friends of the Library's upcoming book sale, gave out flyers about it, pointed out the display in the lobby.
Reshelved several new children's picture books on our display wall after a little guy decided to "read" them while mom was checking out.
Toddler making a run for it - security officer stopped her. Remember kids, you gotta leave with the grownup that brought you!
It's always fun watching new visitors trying to find the book return. So far today, all three seekers have found it on their own! Yay for reading signs!
Got birthday cake from a group using one of the meeting rooms. Working the desk has its perks!
2/3 of the phone calls I answered were asking what time we close.
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No friends came for football. Matt has a cold and waved them off so they wouldn't catch the sinus crud.
9/4
Sunday, and as Matt is ill, he's not going to church. I am driving myself. It's been a long time since I drove downtown by myself.
All went well, and the service was wonderful. Oakerhater Sunday, when we celebrate David Pendleton Oakerhater, our Oklahoma saint. He was a warrior who converted, and came back to minister to his people as an ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church.
9/5
Early September. That time when I hate to walk barefoot out back because of all the broken pecan shells that littler the yard.
Summer that lingers too persistently into September is a special pain. That hot wind needs to take itself elsewhere!
A tequila sunrise may not ward off a cold, but it sure couldn't hurt.
Unfortunately, one could make a compilation of Ron Perlman movie clips and call it "Ron Dies Before The End". I really enjoy the movies where his character lives! I enjoy all his movies, but the ones his character doesn't die in are best. (Like City of Lost Children, and the Hellboy movies, and Alien Resurrection )
9/6
All kinds of out of sorts today. Grumpy, achy, distracted, feeling that doom is waiting to fall on me.
Feel neglected and neglectful, feel left out and forgotten,
Even my usually agreeable pen is in a bad mood on the Tuesday that would be Monday.
Then, on my walk, a favorite song showed up on my random playlist, and made me think of people I care about, and made me smile, because THEY always make me smile. Things are looking up.
Busy at work today. People missed their library while we were closed for two days for the holiday.
If even I need to feel that I am, in fact, necessary to the continued functioning of the world, all I have to do is work a shift at the library on the first day we open after being closed for two days. Oh, my, I had SO much to do!
Tomorrow is my husband's birthday, so I will be baking a cake. It is also the first choir rehearsal of the season, so I will be taking the cake to share with the choir. That way we don't get too much cake, and we make some friends happy.
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