Okay, let's see ...

So far, I have run, printed, and distributed overdue notices. I have marked lost those books and things that certain teachers have out that I know are never ever ever coming back. I have gone through all my journals, so I'm up to date on those. I have made the I.D. card for the new worker in the cafeteria. I have fixed every broken link on the library website, and updated information there. The shelf behind my desk is all in order, and all paper no longer needed is in the recycling bin. I have answered all my email. I have called the cable company to get our new TV hooked up but I'm not authorized to set up the service call, and I have scanned the list of assignments for tomorrow's pep rally and I'm not on it WOO HOO.

It's 9.43. Oy.

My stomach is slightly better today, but my back ache is much worse. I'm letting the SCM teach the three classes we have today because I just don't think I can stand up there in the front of the room for more than a minute. As it is, I'm sitting at my desk chair with my left hand balled into a fist and pressed against the worst spot in my back. I sat like that throughout my entire first pregnancy, so I guess I have a weakened muscle or tendon or something there that always goes first when I don't feel well.

God, I am so tired of talking about my health, but I'm so bored and there's nothing else to do! Wait a minute ...

Okay, it's 1.22. I decided it was time to catalog the DVD collection, so that took an hour. Or less. (We don't have many yet, but we do have over 1000 videotapes. Hmm.) And I had lunch. So there.

When I got to school this morning, my computer seemed normal, except that Firefox was somehow gone. The program was there, but came up like it had just been installed, all my bookmarks, homepages, passwords gone. So that's annoying, and now the library software won't run in Firefox at all, only in IE, so I have like twelve windows opened up where before I could get by with two. (The school email never worked in Foxfire.) I wonder what makes that happen. I wonder who messed around with my computer last night.

Which is why I lock my desk drawers now when I go home at the end of the day. I never had to do that in all my years here, and I always had all kinds of personal things, pictures and trinkets on my desk, so it felt homey to me. All that is gone now. The only non-business items I have on my desk at the moment are the turkey made of feathers that the little ones from the child-care class gave me this morning, and one quotation: "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." said by the amazing South American writer (and librarian) Jorge Luis Borges.

Speaking of which, has anybody taken a look at that new ebook reader Amazon is selling? It's called the K1ndle, and lets you walk around with 100 books in your pocket at any time (which you buy from Amazon, of course.) Is it just me, or does anybody else think this is way cool? People are always saying to me "But you're a librarian! You must love books!" Well, I do, of course, but it's the content more than the physical book that I love. I do love some physical books, but mostly I find it not so easy any more to curl up with a physical book. It's easier on the hands and the back for me to read a book on my Palm (which is smaller than this K1ndle thing, but about the same weight, I think.) I like being able to read a book in a dark room because the screen is backlit; likewise, you can read in any position you're comfortable in and not worry about having enough light. I like not having to hold it in both hands, which are getting more and more achy as the years go by. Now, if I could only figure out how to read without wearing glasses, I'd be all set. But the notion of carrying the complete works of Shakespeare around with me wherever I go? Very very cool. Will there be a K1ndle under the Christmas tree for me this year? Could be. I think it's still too expensive, but it would be one-stop online shopping for the Hubs, and he knows I'd love it.

My brains are getting all mushy now, and I have about an hour left here. I have three more DVDs to catalog, but I have to do these from scratch, so I'd best wait until I can think a little more clearly.

6.20

I'm home, I've had a little pizza, and I think I'm over the worst of whatever I had. I actually dozed a bit in the manicurist's chair, and I felt better once I woke up. Ah, this is the life.

Anyway, tomorrow is that stupid half day/pep rally at school, followed by my last supermarket run, for the veggies, and then I get started. Pumpkin pies tomorrow night.

WATCHING LAW AND ORDER :: ENTRY #1629