Yes we can

What was I thinking? We should have set the TV up in the library and had the live coverage available for people to watch Barack Obama's inauguration today... oh well never mind. I watched, as did many others, before I went to work today.

And also today I finished reading his first book, Dreams From My Father, which was amazingly good. I could not put it down. Imagine - a president who can actually do more than string a few words together, who writes as eloquently as he speaks. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how he thinks of the world. (And I think it would be even better to listen to on audio; he reads it himself!)

Photos can be a bad thing

Last week I brought home several envelopes & boxes of photos that were in the children's librarian's office. These photos were taken by her predecessor who must have spent untold amounts of library money on developing 2 copies of every picture of every child who ever came to a storytime in our library. What the heck for?! (One copy went to the child I assume; the other sat in its envelope for years.) I brought home a grocery bag full of pictures (and that was only a small portion of what was there) and came away with about a 5" pile of pictures that were worth keeping (because they were of staff!). And many of those were duplicates as well. All the rest of them are going in the garbage.

I know, it goes against a scrapbooker's grain to do that, but what else are we going to do with them? It floors me to think of what a waste that was. And of course it ties in with the digital camera requested for that department from our Friends, which I bought last summer, and which has never been used because the shutterbug had already left - and the library already had a camera anyway!

Aaaghh!

Speaking of cameras, my broken one was going to cost $175 to replace the lens so that won't be happening. I'm now shopping for a reasonably priced camera with a good zoom (6x +) for when I go to NYC in three weeks.

Oh and also on the photography topic - in a couple of days some people from our union are coming to town to interview 3 of us (on video) to make some promotional videos, ads, etc. Unfortunately they're not bringing a makeup team...

SAD or happy?

I've been feeling lately like perhaps I suffer a bit from SAD - you know, seasonal affective disorder. Read in the paper the other day that this coming Monday, the day after tomorrow is the worst day (depression-wise) of the winter for those who suffer from depression. So I'm looking forward to Tuesday!

The only time I actually feel happy is when I'm at work - and isn't that weird? I just get far too frustrated at home. At work I have power; at home I have none, or so it feels anyway.

I guess my main problem at the moment is that I spent the afternoon at Costco where it was insanely busy and I should have eaten first, instead of getting a hot dog when I was finished. Oh but that does remind me of one good thing! I lost 2 pounds this week, would like to lose 6 more before I go to New York so I can eat & drink with abandon...

Happy New Year!

Holly and I threw on some clothes over our pyjamas yesterday and ventured outside for awhile. I borrowed Greg's camera and she took her new camcorder. We were lucky not to get either one wet while we threw snow at each other!

I've spent the last 3 days making the Basic Grey Calendar with the kit I bought at Michael's a month or two ago - what a pain in the butt that was! I mean it's a nice looking calendar and pretty much a no-brainer but the stickers that came with it were horrible! The chipboard ones were falling off pretty much as fast as I stuck them on, and the paper ones weren't properly cut so they wouldn't come off the backing. However I prevailed and it's done. Nothing has fallen off it since last night!

I went down to the library today to see if everything was under control. The new carpet in the lab looks great, and they painted my office plus the other areas they were supposed to do. And all the old lab furniture is gone; the new stuff comes Monday morning. However it seems the City guys also took away a piece of furniture by mistake - the little credenza behind the Reference Desk is gone. It holds the printer, phone book & some handy Ref material. I've emailed the City asking them to look for it and bring it back...

So now there's only the weekend left and then it's back to work. Can't say I'm sorry but then I'm just weird that way.