So the vacation is a bit of a blur at this point. I am sure I can sit down and parse out a number of events (right now I am currently thinking about some random matching dresses, frogs sentenced to death by fire and my ability to get lost in every state from here to PA).
I will try and write more about it later. The trip was good. I am tired. Also, there was a break in at my library while I was gone so my boss's computer is gone and she is left using mine, meaning I can't write at lunch today.
I will try to either write a post tonight or tomorrow (when the other librarian leaves so we each have our own computer).
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Well, I've Lost It. . . .
I just screeeeeeched in a guy's ear to explain how annoying it is. It didn't help, he won't transfer me to the powers that be that make the decisions. We've told them repeatedly that we close at 5:00pm, currently we're scheduled to have the tech visit us between 7:30pm and 8:00pm. I have called twice in the last hour. Both times they have assured me that they will call me back with a more exact time. It hasn't happened yet. I don't care that I am in their computer as a nut case. They have made me that nut case.
if I hear SQUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEE much longer, I might really, really lose it. I mean really.
I have to go home so my boy can grind his meat and so I can clean the house boil eggs make cucumber salad etc. Not to mention this is the one night a week I revel in television, watching Little People Big World and then tons of the Cosby show (on both TVLAND and Nick at Night). So they're not winning points over here, let me tell you.
UGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!
if I hear SQUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEE much longer, I might really, really lose it. I mean really.
I have to go home so my boy can grind his meat and so I can clean the house boil eggs make cucumber salad etc. Not to mention this is the one night a week I revel in television, watching Little People Big World and then tons of the Cosby show (on both TVLAND and Nick at Night). So they're not winning points over here, let me tell you.
UGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!
A Round of Earplugs
Perhaps we'll all become more productive now. One of the women here remembered she had earplugs. Plenty for all three of us. It's sort of surreal how quiet the library has become now, and yet a nice respite. I keep glancing at the phone to not miss a call.
When we called at 1:00 we were told that the technician had said at 12:50 he'd be here in an hour and a half. We called again at 2:30 since he wasn't here. We were told that he wasn't in route, but we were still on his schedule. It's 2:45 now, we're technically only at the library for another 2 hours and 15 min. I hope that they make it here before then. . . . .
Also, this alarm thing and the fact that it's fourth of July week has done nothing to cut down on requests. I currently have six requests I am supposed to be working on. None of them easy. . . . Tomorrow was supposed to just be a day of shelf shifting and that sort of thing. Now it looks like we might have to work on requests instead :(.
When we called at 1:00 we were told that the technician had said at 12:50 he'd be here in an hour and a half. We called again at 2:30 since he wasn't here. We were told that he wasn't in route, but we were still on his schedule. It's 2:45 now, we're technically only at the library for another 2 hours and 15 min. I hope that they make it here before then. . . . .
Also, this alarm thing and the fact that it's fourth of July week has done nothing to cut down on requests. I currently have six requests I am supposed to be working on. None of them easy. . . . Tomorrow was supposed to just be a day of shelf shifting and that sort of thing. Now it looks like we might have to work on requests instead :(.
If One More Person
Asks whether we're doing something about this alarm I may have to kill them.
Oh, yes, it's still going on, almost five hours later. I am cranky and getting nothing accomplished (one might ask how that's different than usual, you know if one had a death wish).
Oh, yes, it's still going on, almost five hours later. I am cranky and getting nothing accomplished (one might ask how that's different than usual, you know if one had a death wish).
It's not Improving
I am getting a headache. We're going on two solid hours of hearing aid feedback on steroids type sound (not to mention the hour and a half of sporadic sounds we had earlier today).
I opened my first diet coke of the day (because I am trying to save money) and it exploded and had to be thrown out. (after getting all over the corner of my desk and the floor).
I know I am not Job (I even have really close friends going through a lot tougher crap) but I can't take this much longer.
I opened my first diet coke of the day (because I am trying to save money) and it exploded and had to be thrown out. (after getting all over the corner of my desk and the floor).
I know I am not Job (I even have really close friends going through a lot tougher crap) but I can't take this much longer.
This Weekend
I forgot to update on this weekend. It was pretty chill by our standards. We watched several netflix movies and we ran some errands and got some prep work done for the bbq we're having on Wed.
The funniest thing, I think, was when my boy was falling asleep during one of the movies and I kept asking him questions to make him stay awake. He started only answering "I don't know" (which is his most frequent phrase in general and which quickly into our relationship became my least favorite phrase ever). I finally said "do you notice how answering 'I don't know' doesn't stop my questions?" His quick response, "giving you a real answer doesn't either" and then he turned away and went back to sleep.
The funniest thing, I think, was when my boy was falling asleep during one of the movies and I kept asking him questions to make him stay awake. He started only answering "I don't know" (which is his most frequent phrase in general and which quickly into our relationship became my least favorite phrase ever). I finally said "do you notice how answering 'I don't know' doesn't stop my questions?" His quick response, "giving you a real answer doesn't either" and then he turned away and went back to sleep.
Stop the Maddness
The burglar alarm here at the library has been going off sporadically since 9:00 (well for longer than that, I have just been here since 9:00). At 10:15 it decided to spice things up and the alarm in my office (and I believe the offices above) has gone steadily every since. We called ADT (if I haven't mentioned it already on this blog, I HATE ADT. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER,NEVER use ADT. They are a terrible company. They're unresponsive (by which I mean that they don't give a damn). ADT said it was our phone system. Verizon sent someone out 30 min ago (ADT said that the soonest they could send someone was next Monday). Our phone lines are all in perfect working order.
We called ADT back and they said if we paid an up front emergency fee of $300 we could get someone out. That was 30 minutes ago (after 6 phone calls and I was hung up on twice). Still no sign of ADT.
The other librarian here just came back from dealing with Verizon. She said (with a slightly manic look on her face) if you stand in just the right spot in the stairway it sounds almost like a song because everyone's alarm is just slightly off.
I am going to call other alarm companies now. I can't stand this one minute longer. I hope that the building can cough up the $10,000 it will take for a new alarm company to come in. Perhaps it's good that the alarm is making noise constantly -- it will make the cost of the new alarm company easier to swallow.
We called ADT back and they said if we paid an up front emergency fee of $300 we could get someone out. That was 30 minutes ago (after 6 phone calls and I was hung up on twice). Still no sign of ADT.
The other librarian here just came back from dealing with Verizon. She said (with a slightly manic look on her face) if you stand in just the right spot in the stairway it sounds almost like a song because everyone's alarm is just slightly off.
I am going to call other alarm companies now. I can't stand this one minute longer. I hope that the building can cough up the $10,000 it will take for a new alarm company to come in. Perhaps it's good that the alarm is making noise constantly -- it will make the cost of the new alarm company easier to swallow.
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