Library Technician

So what doesn the library technician do when she's not thinking about libraries? Like on a long weekend? Like this weekend? Thinking about this blog is about as close as I'm going to libraries this weekend.

So, I blog, briefly, and I knit and crochet quite a lot, and I hang around watching tv and visit with my daughter helping her with her backyard which is the most physical thing I'm doing all weekend and that wasn't a lot. I cooked lunch today, rice and beans flavoured with onion and tomato chutney and steamed veges. Helped cook dinner, vege rice and bean soup. We used our own chokos that are ripening on the back fence. Also known as chayotes. Love free organic food and if I wasn't working full time I'd never buy veges coz I'd grow the lot. Dyed my hair with a fancy dye - it's a brown with ... ummm .... it shines purple in the sun outside and red inside the house. I love the way it changes colour! Played Warcraft II. Browsed the net just coz I like to. I've only been to the local shops. Haven't even left my suburb so far.

Listen to my gal play guitar and sing. Love living with a muso. Love my home.

It's a long weekend! Three days off! I won't get paid for the day off, joys of contracting, but I do have a day off. Don't know what I will do yet, but it probably won't be library oriented.

I've decided to take a week off in July. In just over a week I will have worked for a year and I don't have any paid leave. Normally I would expect to be taking four weeks off about now. I've thought about my finances and decided I should be able to afford to not get paid for one week in July so for the sake of my sanity that's what I'm doing. Only thought about it today and just decided very quickly. Of course that's dependent on the library still being open and me still working there....

So madame goes off the good behaviour wagon this arvo.

The manager rings saying she'd like to pick up the newspapers in the morning, she gets in about 7.30 & she'll return them to the library later. Madame says the manager is only taking 2. Of course madame has no idea, the papers are all rolled up in one bundle. Of course. She says she will talk to the manager. The manager comes down later in the arvo & I mention that I'll pick up the papers from her office in the morning. Madame all of a sudden pipes up telling the manager that all the papers are rolled together and I realise she hasn't talked to the manager. I look back at the manager and I confirm the papers are all rolled together and say again that I'll go past her office in the morning. She says no, she'll bring them down. I say but I need them by 9am when I open. She says really? And I say yes, people start coming in the check the papers as soon as I open the doors. Wow she says and wanders off. Madame starts on about how the manager does deserve some leeway and I think she's talking about her taking the newspapers, but then she says she would rather have talked to the manager about it all and I just barely managed not to say you certainly said you would, but then she says it isn't right to ask the manager to deliver the papers to us. She just didn't hear me say, twice that I would go past the managers office. I corrected her and at least I can say she backed down for a change.