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I’ll try to keep this vague, ’cause I’m talking about work, but…

Yesterday when I was on the desk there was a disturbance before the Security Guard arrived. So one of my co-workers went to deal with it and I went with her as back-up.

It turned out that all of the shouting and swearing was the result of a misunderstanding where are rules were concerned. The situation was diffused, and apologies were offered. (My co-worker is good at this stuff, thank goodness, as I am actually rubbish at confrontations.) But the situation left me thinking the following:

1) When I get angry I do stupid things. The way-taller-than-me angry guy seemed to be having the same problem.

2) I distinctly remember being in High School and coming to the sudden realization that people often don’t realize that they are bugging you. It’s best to discuss the situation with them *before* attacking. Often, the situation can be resolved in this way before you break a ring off of your finger trying to hit the person sitting behind you with their feet on the bottom rung of your chair. Not that I ever did that. No. Look! It’s the Goodyear Blimp!

3) I still have really bad nerves. After we were done I wanted to go curl up somewhere quiet for a few hours. Not that I could. I just wanted to.

Ugh.

So, it’s a darn good thing I haven’t upgraded over here. Today have been frustrating and frazzling and…other things starting with “f.”

It all started when I left my insurance card at home. Luckily, my follow up with the OB/GYN went well, and I now have all sorts of tests and such to look forward to. (Eek!) But, once we (yes, the Hubby has to go get tests done too) get those tests out of the way, then we’ll finally know where we stand. So, I have some phone calls to make soon.

I made it to work on time. And then I spent the first couple of hours at work peeved with the new interface for my work blog. The image interface now makes code that I have to clean up. And…it wouldn’t give me the picture I chose. I turned in a support ticket to the Wordpress folks, who are probably tired of hearing about problems with their new product, but there you are. And then…there were some of those patron interactions that I hate. Luckily there were also some of the good ones to balance them out.

When I got home I got some hugs and took a shower, so I’m happier than I was. Thank goodness.

Tomorrow includes: A Cat going to the vet, Me getting the finances in order later in the day, and some time to work on my T13 at work. Isn’t my life glamorous?

Well, wouldn’t you know it. I got busy/lazy and thus way behind in that Web 2.0 thing for work. Then, my laptop up and croaked, effectively causing all sorts of problems. I’ve had a flickr account for quite some time already. Mostly…it’s made up of pictures of cats. And that one pic of my red shoes. I’ll see if I can figure out how to access and upload pics from this Linux Laptop I’m borrowing. Hmmmm…

ha HA! I did it. Talk about workarounds. I had to use the Windows VM on the Linux laptop to manage this. Meh. I can’t set up the “blogging tool” as my Wordpress account is server side.

For those of you who aren’t good with acronyms, FTW=”For the Win.” Yes. After months of discussion, one canceled meeting, and all sorts of interim emergencies, I actually had my blogging meeting today at work.

Um…it went well. Okay. It went really well. I have such plans. Muahahaha.

I have somehow managed to combine my professions. I’m paid to be a librarian during the day, and a blogger when I get home. Come January, I will be paid to blog during the day at work. Many many thanks to my boss and her boss. I read my blog proposal to KoshVader this evening (the one I was so surprised about the other day) and he appeared impressed. That was almost better, you know? He’s good at almost everything, so when I can impress him, that’s a special moment for me.

Now, I really need to get that shirt at the top of this post. I was going to get the “Blogito Ergo Sum” one, but they don’t seem to carry it anymore. Le sigh.

Well, enough celebrating for now. I have to go to bed, so that I am awake enough to take my Sister-in-Law shopping tomorrow. Please pardon me while I dance off of the stage for the evening.

Today started with Frisbee batting at my face every half an hour for two hours until I got up. He was not interested in that fact that today was my day to sleep-in in the morning. Nope. It was plainly time to wake up and scratch him. Therefore, it was his duty to inform me of this. Sigh. Once I got up and had my breakfast (two crumpets and 2 cups of coffee) I was in a randomly good mood and ready to go. Perhaps the coffee had something to do with it. Who knows? *bouncebouncebounce*

Anyway, today I finally managed to do some stack shifting in the A/V section that has been making me batty. It was one of those little nagging things that you know you could fix given the time. Today, I made time. Maybe it was my good mood. Maybe I was just fed up with the mess. Either way, it’s done.

My meeting on the Library blog is on Thursday, and I’m getting antsy. I’ve been waiting on this for months now, and the meeting has already been canceled once. I was asked to write up a sort of proposal for the project, and I have now revised it and sent it to my boss and her boss. I’m actually sort of surprised at the amount of information that came pouring out of my brain and onto that document. It was like: “Dude. I sound like I know what I’m talking about.” Which, actually, I do. Eek! Please note that Thursday is the 13th. What a perfect day for a blog meeting!

I made it home by 10pm, made some cheesy bacon toast and tea. Watched some food network, and headed up to the computer. I know. I’m so exciting. (snicker)

So, just to liven it up a bit here, I’ll tell y’all about the mug at the top of this post. I bought it at The Globe Theater back in May of 1999. The infamous “time I was in the UK.” I had to visit the Globe. Not stopping by wasn’t an option. (For the record, I saw an all male performance of Julius Caesar. It was fabulous.) You see, I helped pay for that building. In High School we held Shakespeare read-athons to raise money for Sam Wanamaker’s project. He even came to the school to talk to us and say thank you. I visited our pillar while I was there. Yep, we did pretty well with our fund raiser.

I should really title this “When Two Worlds Collide.” My work life and my…real life have just smashed into each other. At work, we are being all encouraged to learn about Web 2.0 by going through an online training program. Who knows? I might learn something. I don’t see any point in getting a new blog for it though, as I already have…three? Well, four if you include my LJ.

As a result, it looks like people from work will be reading this. So…welcome.

We’ve been learning about the 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners so far, and our current assignment is to blog about which of the habits are easiest and most difficult for us.

The list of habits is:

1: Begin with the end in mind. (This one is the most difficult. It involves having a plan.)
2: Accept responsibility for your own learning.
3: View problems as challenges.
4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner.
5: Create your own learning toolbox.
6: Use technology to your advantage.
7: Teach/Mentor others.
7 1/2: Play. (I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the easiest for me.)

Personally, I think that being a Librarian requires you to be a lifelong learner. Not necessarily in this structured sort of format, but there you are. I learn something new every day.