knitting librarian

I’m proud of myself! My monthly postings are usually pretty minimal, with a maximum in August of this year of 15 posts. So far, I’ve posted at least once per day in November. I’ve already more than doubled that this time around. I think it’s a good habit to be in, so I’m going to try to keep it up, but I also have to realize that life will get in the way.

Many evenings, I was ready to crawl into bed and realized I hadn’t gotten myself to the computer to post for the day, but I committed to M that I would do this with her. In fact, my first night I didn’t get near my computer until after 12am, so I blew a post for November 1st, but I hope that since I still posted before I went to bed, it “counts.” Even if it doesn’t if I were chosen for a prize, I’m okay with that. I’ve read that it takes 30 days to form a habit (lol, I didn’t remember how many and searched “days to form a habit” and found numbers ranging from 21 to 90—I suspect 30 must be common knowledge because I see a few items about using November’s 30 days to form (or break) a habit.
I’ve found some interesting blogs because of the NaBloPoMo ning and I’ll try to keep reading and commenting on them because I know I appreciate being read and getting some feedback and comments from others. I just received a report tonight from SiteMeter and I was amazed to see the wide range of places that people accessed my blog from. The most interesting inbound visitor came from a g00gle search for a name. It makes me wonder if the person was finding out what was on the web about himself. I had written a summary of an article I read and he was the author. I wonder if my summary suited or offended him. That person visited for over 4 minutes, so I guess that they must have read the full post. I sure wish he (or she if it wasn’t the author) had commented—that would have been interesting.

Today was a busy one at work. My book order arrived and I spent the day examining them—one was almost completely separated from its binding—how could the warehouse have missed that when they emblazoned it with the district property stamp? Because they’d done that, there’s no returning it to the jobber—so off to use the book binding glue we went! I hope it’ll be good as (better than?) new tomorrow when the glue’s had a chance to set. I’ve got 300 new books sitting on a cart waiting to be read. Several of them were checked out today once I got them prepared. I sent a stack to the student teacher doing a poetry unit and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night to the math teacher I mentioned it to because of its use of prime numbers to label chapters. I need to track down the art teacher and ask him to stop by to see what I’ve gotten because the 700s are one of my areas of focus for collection development this year. I brought home the controversial Golden Compass so I can be informed. I hope that no one notices. This reminds me that I need to do a post on things I’ve overheard in the library lately. Have I mentioned kids are funny?
Zoe and AJ both seem to “have the cough” as AJ says and I’m afraid that Miss Z will need a trip to the doctor to remedy hers. She’s rubbing at her ear, got a runny/chunky nose and a rattling cough. AJ just coughed as if he could hear me typing about him. I guess I need to go find him some cough syrup so he can sleep tonight, so I’ll call it a day.

Thanks for reading if you are. Drop me a note to say “hi” if you’re so inclined—I like to know that I’m being read. I’ll try to be better about commenting on your blog too, if you’ve got one.

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