Shhhhh..this is a library

I was shushed by a patron today while Laura and I were talking. “I can understand customers being loud but not the staff”. I would have responded better if he had just told us to keep our voices down rather than be so hateful. I really don’t think we were being that loud. Jennifer was here too and said that he had shushed her once before aswell.
Today I wish I wasn’t here. I’m tired of being at the desk alone. Beth has been here a lot too but she has plenty to do herself and often has to leave the desk. I feel rather overloaded with doing the mail and ILL while trying to help people with questions. It’s always hard to remember what it was I was doing when I do ILL, where I was at before I was interupted, I really don’t know how Katherine does it. I guess the hardest thing is making sure I do everything correctly according to her system. Everybody has a system and Katherine has had one for years and years. I’m so worried that I’ll mess something up and she’ll come back all upset. I’m already worried about the fact that we have moved the magazines and added the donations to the collection which I don’t think she’s going to be happy about. She’s very reluctant to change and understandably so since she’s been doing things a certain way for so long. Beth isn’t going to be here the day she gets back so she’ll probably get a shock when she walks into the periodical room. I hope I don’t get an earful.

I’ve been whining a lot this past month. I think it might be the heat. I hate hot humid weather and the summer has arrived a lot faster this year it seems. Patrons are getting on my nerves a lot more than usual and I seem to have a lot less patience then normal. I’m planning to use this weekend to finally re-organize my house from top to bottom. My bedroom is pretty good but every place else is a mess. There are so many items stashed in temporary places. I need to fine them a home :). I’m hoping to get most of this done by the time Mike gets back but something tells me I’ll have to work on it on memorial day too.