TEN!

Ten days to go, fellow babies, and then there's a two day workshop and the rest of the summer is mine, mine, all mine, I tell you!

Ahem.

So the SCM was out today, and the substitute service called in K, so she was in the library with me all day. Pretty strange, let me tell you. I gave her some work to do, as I do with subs, and she pretty much did it, but she was also very bored. We're not bored -- well, not always -- because we have work to do that a sub can't, so subs get to do the crummy jobs, like shelf reading, and for today, using the paper cutter to chop up forms I had printed last week. So not the greatest day for her, but she gets paid the same, so I guess she has nothing to complain about. The funny thing is, thought, now that we're home, I keep thinking of things to tell her about my day and then I remember that she was there, too.

It's 6.20 and I just put in my hearing aids for the first time in ... oh, I guess it's a week and a half. So I guess my hearing problem of the last couple of days is better enough that I can hear via the aids. I'll keep them in until bedtime and keep my fingers crossed that they work now. My own voice seems very loud, but I can't tell yet if that's part of the adjustment I need to make or if I need to take them back next week and just get the programming tweaked a little. Well, I'll know by Monday, when I can call for a Wednesday appointment, if I need one.

I'm going to an out-of-district workshop on Wednesday. Half of it is on Web 2.0, I think it's called, and the other half is on something similar. I was reading an article about Web 2.0 and I think some if it is what I already do, but I guess I'll know more after Wednesday. If I learn anything exciting, I'll let you know. The two-day workshop I'm going to after school ends is about our new library software, but here's a weird phone call I got just before the end of school today:

Phone rings, I answer. I hear hesitation, and then

"Oh ... uh ... Chai?"

(I had answered the phone "Library, Mrs. Chai.")

"Yes?"

"It's ... uh .... Kathleen."

"Oh, hi." Kathleen is the secretary to the assistant superintendent of schools, a woman who is a former librarian, former high school vice principal, and generally a buddy of mine, whose name is Judy. Kathleen says

"I'm just trying to decide what time to tell you to be here for Judy's meeting tomorrow morning."

Pause on my part. "I wasn't aware that Judy was having a meeting tomorrow morning."

"No, I'm calling to tell you that there's a meeting at Judy's office tomorrow morning."

Am I missing something here? "What time do you want me to be there?"

She says "Early. As early as you can make it."

I tell her that I can be there at 7.00. "Oh, no one's here then. That's too early." No shit, Sherlock. We start at the high school at 7.55, although the library opens at 7.30. The middle schools start at 8.30, and the elementaries at 9.00, which is when the central office people stroll in. That's already the middle of the day to me. So we agree on 8.00, which is fine with me, although I'm sure when I get in at 7.00 there will be voicemail changing it to a later time because it wasn't good for one of the middle school librarians, for whom we have to change the time or date of every damn meeting, always for her, never for anyone else. The rest of us just change our plans when Judy calls a meeting, but not this one.

Anyway, it's about the new library software. I hope it isn't delayed and we're not having the workshop. I want to be able to start up with it in September, and the SCM will not return to New Jersey from his vacation home in Vermont for anything, so if the workshop is rescheduled, he's not coming, and then I have to teach him everything in the fall. I ain't in the mood.

Okay, then. My lunch is already made for tomorrow. Time for another beta test of the Google Groups mailing list, and if it still works, I may post the sign-in box tomorrow.

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