10/29/2004

 

Book fair success!

We have just completed day one of the first annual Friends of the Library book fair, and I think it went very well. We had people in there all day and did good business. Tomorrow might not go as well, being a Saturday, but this is a "learn from it" thing - if there's no business tomorrow, then next year we'll only do it on weekdays. And it was actually much more enjoyable than the annual Friends luncheon, largely because this time I hardly had to do any planning or prep work for it! :-)

At the moment I'm sitting at home waiting for Brian to call me back to see if we're going to a Halloween party. We were supposed to go with my cousins but apparently they have crapped out on us. Oh well. On tap for the weekend is another trip to the Ren Fair, a dance performance, and hopefully some chicken coop and shed cleaning. Wahoo!

7:01 PM

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10/27/2004

 

Assorted goings-on, guilt, and whatnot

It's been a busy month. The on-campus dance class began, I have only had 1-3 students each week but the ones that come enjoy it. During fall break Brian and I took some time off and went camping in the mountains. We did a lot of hiking, a bit of caching, and some shivering, and we had a great time. We really needed the time away. When we got back from that, we started on the DVD of the clogging recital in August. Brian put a huge amount of thought, creativity and time into this - there aren't words to express how much I appreciate it. The result is an awesome DVD of the show, with picture slideshows thrown in, DVD and case labels featuring pics of the group, and more - it is a really professional job. So far we've sold 6 and just got orders for 2 more - so the "Crescent Cloggers Amp Fund" is getting some money in it! We have one more performance on Saturday, then we're done til the Christmas parades. And after that there's likely no performances until May or so unless we do a nursing home at some point. So Brian can have a wife again. :-) Thanks for putting up with me honey! I love you!

At work we are slowly rolling out the new computers. I got mine all fixed up last week. I had to rearrange my desk a bit which means I now have a pile of stuff and nowhere to put it. OK, I could actually do something silly like FILE the stuff, but then I'd never find it again! I know exactly where stuff is in my little mess!

Oh, and the guilt. I made a patron cry on Monday. This is a definite first for me. The backstory for this is waaaay to long to get into - this is "Favorite Patron", who I've posted about before. FP is not affiliated with the university, but lives right down the road and spends most of his days here, on the Internet. FP is... is... well, he has mental issues. He is the reason our community user policy morphed from "community users can't use the computers, except when we feel like letting them" to "community users can use the computer in the lobby for one hour at a time, and if there's no one waiting, we might let them stay on longer". The ultimate result of all this is that FP spent nearly as many hours here as the employees. To make a long story short, for a variety of reasons we are now strictly enforcing the 1-hour limit. It is not all FP's fault, and I do think (hope) I convinced him of that. And on one level, this decision is immensely relieving (FP often annoys the crap out of us). But, the fact is, this guy's only friends are online, and I have just severely curtailed his opportunity to interact with them. ***SIGH*** Sometimes being the director sucks.

On a happier note, our dossier was logged in China on October 13. We should have our referral in 6 months! The other night before bed I found myself singing to Emma. I was singing Somewhere Out There. I guess that's a good sign! :)

9:10 PM

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10/05/2004

 

3 more classes

I'm counting down until this seminar class is over. I teach Thursday, then there are 2 more classes in November for registration for the next semester. Then there's the exam period, so I guess there's 4 more classes. Either way, it's almost over! yay! I am NOT teaching in the spring. Once a year is enough. Today's class actually went all right, I'm just sick of it. Sick of some of my students, really. This semester I manage to have both some of the best and worst students I've ever had. Go figure.

I am, however, going to teach a 5-week dance class on campus for faculty and staff. So far I have 5 people signed up. This is one of those "some day I'll learn to keep my mouth shut around this place" kind of things. It'll be fun though. I'm going to do line dancing and clogging. Maybe I'll get someone I can recruit to join my group! Who performed GREAT this past Saturday by the way. All the girls did a really good job, including the little ones. And on that note, it's a good thing Emma will be small when we get her, because I need to build up my arm strength! I carried a half-asleep 3-year-old for the 10-minute walk back to the car...ow. Gotta start doing strengthening exercises with those weights Brian got me. Oh, and speaking of Emma, since I dont' think either of us has gotten around to updating the China blog yet, we are officially DTC as of last Friday. Meaning our dossier is somewhere between here and China as I type. Woohoo!

I suppose i should start paying attention to the debate again. Yuck.

9:41 PM

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