Friday, June 19, 2009

Fair Time or The Russians are here.

The town that I work at is having a fair right now. This is a traveling fair, it goes from town to town setting up and breaking down. It seems that a lot of the workers are Russians. Today at the library I had about 10 of them wanting to use the computers. They stayed for about 3 hours. I had to kick some of them off so that the local people could use them. We have a half hour time limit when there are lots of people wanting to use them. They would log off, wait and as soon as a computer became available they would be back on it.

Today at work it seemed that the theme was " Bring your bratty kid day" I had one little girl keep coming to the desk as her mom was on the computer with headphones on asking if I had this book and that book. The little girl was a mumbler and I was real busy with receiving books.
It turns out that no we don't have "The littlest pets" DVD.

Then there was a lady ( Again with headphones on ) that was letting her kids play tag in the stacks. I told the kids to "hush" and stop running in the library. I think it was them kids that left books all over the library that I had to re-shelve. I had about 20 of them to do. I found picture books over in the young adults area under the bean bags when I vacuumed tonight.

On top of all that it was a very humid day again. The kind that sweat just trickled down to where it wanted to with out me doing anything. When I got home tonight I got Abby and we went for a hour drive with all the windows rolled down. Nothing like a drive with the air blowing all over to get you back in the right frame of mind.

But you know what? A hot humid day with some loud kids still beats today at my old job. My friend up in AK at the old job told me that they had problems today. But not my problem!

It was a good day.

3 comments:

  1. Sorry you had that kind of a day. I can see that I haven't been doing a good job enforcing our policy on young children being left alone and on unsupervised. Thanks for "holding the fort down" yesterday.

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  2. Hello! I just found your blog through Annette at A Wisp of Creativity. I'm also in Wisconsin!

    I remember taking my children to the library when they were younger and being appalled at how some other kids were allowed to act. Sometimes my son, who was about 6 at the time, would reprimand the other kids and tell them he was the going to grow up to be the "library police."

    Best wishes,
    Angela

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  3. I'm sorry I'm laughing but I can relate to days like that too, and your right, it really isn't all that bad.

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