Well, it's May which means the countdown is on! Since I am on a ten month contract, my work year is from August 1st to May 31st. I enjoy having June and July to catch up on reading, housework and television. I also do a little traveling to visit family and friends. This year I have several things on the agenda...I'm joined the library challenge to read and blog about three southern books, the books have to be written by southern authors and set in the south. I think for the first I'm going to re-read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I read that book for the first time last summer and just fell in love with it, it is a love story that transcends time. I haven't decided what else to read, but I would like to read and post something by and about African Americans. Not only can I relate better to the story, but I would like to share the experiences of African Americans with others in the read/blog group.
My next project is to redo my bathroom. My house is small and about twenty years old and when I bought it I knew it would require a lot of work/projects. I plan to paint, add new decor and possibly redo the flooring. Eventually, I'd like to remove the carpet from the living area and hallway and I think I will test my "skills" by doing the bathroom. I'm sure there will be a post when I undertake the project.
I also plan on making a road trip to Milwaukee this year. My maternal family reunion will be there this year the weekend of July 11-12. My plan is to go about a week and a half earlier and see some sights and enjoy family prior to the big event. I'm sure the visit will welcome a nice break from this southern heat.
So, today is May 5th and that means I have seventeen working days left! I was suckered into going to the zoo with the Senatobia Elementary Kindergarten students on the 20th...I'm sure as I walk around with DQ and another kid I'll wish I was at work. Anyway, this is the last week of class for our students, so I'm sure we will be busy shelving books and answering questions that deal with typing and printing papers. Once finals are over (May 15th) we lock our doors until summer school and I finish up the last minute cataloging and year-end reports and I'm out the door until August! Yippee!!!!
4 comments:
Hey! It's great to have you back in the blogosphere. I've really missed you. Totally relate to your DQ situation. Gotta put on a strong veneer when dealing with our children, eh?
So the library completely shuts down until Summer school? When does Summer school start and how is the library manned? Are there any librarians (degreed, that is) working during that time? How does the general community deal with the college being closed? I know ours would totally freak out. I mean where would they go where they can play videogames without being distrubed all day long? I kid you not we have so many "civilians" coming in and using our computers to game. They stay all day and never stir from their seats until we close. Makes you wonder why their corpulent bodies don't adhere to the seat bottoms.
Well, the Director (she is degreed) works through the summer. It is the other three of us librarians that are on ten month contracts. We are closed unitl summer school starts (June 2), but we are here in the building and we allow faculty and staff to use the library.
The community...not an issue because you have to be a student to use the computers. IDs have to be scanned and then students have to log on using a college given username and password.
Some of staff don't want the students to anything but school related work, I couldn't imagine having others come in and use the computers all day.
Oh, poor you. 17 more working days? Try 35 more years of monotony without hope of escape!
;-)
No, I'm okay. Really.
Yes, I will be here until they make me leave. Unless, my knight in shining armour comes and sweeps me off my feet.
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