Back at the Book Mine

Okay, my job may occasionally make me ill, but I do realize that I am not doing manual labor in a salt mine, or in some similar location of metaphoric horror. I work in a library. In a school. Which sucks. [lets out deep breath.]

So, back at school! I actually had very little contact with the SCM today, which is amazing since he seemed to be very much in self-centered mode and usually he needs to tell everyone all about it, but great because he was in self-centered mode and I didn't have to hear any of it. As soon as I walked in and he said "Hi, how are you?" I told him I was sick, so maybe that let me off the hook. I shared neither the sad news about Q nor the good news about R's apartment with him. Both Media Girl and the Reputed Secretary were sweet and sympathetic, though.

The Reputed Secretary, I think, is on the verge of being assigned elsewhere. She has not been a good secretary for us, although I like her as a person. She fucked up something else today in the short time that she was there. What I need to do is negotiate with the principal for what I need in terms of somebody taking care of the library's business. I emailed him today and asked, among other things, if I could see him sometime this week. He never reads emails from me -- I send them with a read-receipt request, so I know -- so I doubt that it'll get me anywhere.

Today is the last day of the semester for K, although she has finals during the day next Monday, but no more night class after tonight. Two weeks from today she starts her first summer session, which is, I think, a six or eight hour day, four days a week, for three weeks. That's two classes.

And R signed her lease today. Yay!

The Other Chai and I have concocted a plan to go to DisneyWorld next November when we get two days off for teachers' convention. We'll see how that goes. I think we would travel okay together. If nothing else, we find each other pretty amusing, and we did spend a great deal of time together years ago when our kids were small, and not just with the kids; we would go shopping and such, or just out for lunch. So I guess I could travel with her.

And now to see if I can finish my book before Heroes comes on.


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