I just want to shelve books.
I want to help patrons find the book they're looking for.
I want to talk with people about the books they're checking out and how the second one is so much better than the third.
I want to encourage reading and make people see the library as a friendly, loving, inviting place where they can come and spend their time and be happy.
I want to check out DVD's and CD's and anything.
I want to hear the beep when the book goes across the little red light.
I long to hear little kids running through the library with a big, flat book in their hands, ready to check it out and take it home and read it till their parents are sick of it.
Please.
Please.
All I want is to be in a library, breathing pages and smelling words and doing the job I was born to do; what I was made for.
I was created and put on this earth to work in a library. I don't want to do anything else. I don't fit anywhere else.
That is my calling on this planet and no one seems willing to give me the job my heart and soul and mind are crafted for.
I just want to shelve a book and be paid for it again.
Please.
Sincerely,
me
21.8.13
14.8.13
I'm Getting Out of Here!
Well, if I pass the credit check and the background check, the apartment close to work is a lock for October. That gives me a month and a half to get some of the things I still need, like a futon mattress. I have the one I want bookmarked online, but I'm still holding out hope for one at a rummage sale. I need a few bits of furniture, too, but those will come with time. Mum's giving me a dresser and a couch. One of the ladies at church offered me a table. I need two bookshelves and maybe a TV table and I'll be covered.
However, most of the basic things are covered, sans food and things like paper plates and plastic wrap, which is stuff I'm going to get when I actually get into the apartment because I made the point that dragging all that food out here to the house and then back in again to the apartment seems a whole lot of stupid.
So I have a month and a half till I get out of here. When Anna goes back to school, I'm going to start getting clothes organized into some sort of order (ha dee ha ha.) Things have been flung all over and my CD's and DVD's need to move back into their cases. The dishes all migrated downstairs last month, so that's done. I need a needle for my record player. My kitchen is nearly finished being set up (minus unimportant things like plates to eat off of and spoons and butter knives. I have forks, though.)
So it's coming together. Give me a month and a half and I'll be chomping at the bit to get out of here (like I'm not already. The amount of times I've said, "I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE YESTERDAY," lately gets higher every time I have to clean up/run after/deal with problems that could be handled by someone else. No more being up at 6 in the morning, washing dishes, throwing the ball to the dog, trying to eat breakfast and put on a pair of shoes and get lunch ready for today all at once and...you get the picture. I will no longer have to mow the lawn at half past 6 in the morning! Rejoice!)
48 DAYS TILL INDEPENDENCE!
Ta,
Bec Koshak
However, most of the basic things are covered, sans food and things like paper plates and plastic wrap, which is stuff I'm going to get when I actually get into the apartment because I made the point that dragging all that food out here to the house and then back in again to the apartment seems a whole lot of stupid.
So I have a month and a half till I get out of here. When Anna goes back to school, I'm going to start getting clothes organized into some sort of order (ha dee ha ha.) Things have been flung all over and my CD's and DVD's need to move back into their cases. The dishes all migrated downstairs last month, so that's done. I need a needle for my record player. My kitchen is nearly finished being set up (minus unimportant things like plates to eat off of and spoons and butter knives. I have forks, though.)
So it's coming together. Give me a month and a half and I'll be chomping at the bit to get out of here (like I'm not already. The amount of times I've said, "I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE YESTERDAY," lately gets higher every time I have to clean up/run after/deal with problems that could be handled by someone else. No more being up at 6 in the morning, washing dishes, throwing the ball to the dog, trying to eat breakfast and put on a pair of shoes and get lunch ready for today all at once and...you get the picture. I will no longer have to mow the lawn at half past 6 in the morning! Rejoice!)
48 DAYS TILL INDEPENDENCE!
Ta,
Bec Koshak
6.8.13
Temps
Yup, I have my temps. Now I can learn to drive. Get out of the way!
I can't move into the apartment I want till October, so I guess I'll wait and be patient for that.
Orientation's going well; I'm learning a lot all at once and I'm going from terrified "I'm never going to learn all of this," to "Hell, this is EASY," all in the span of a couple of minutes. I just keep thinking that I need to do something and this is that something. I have to learn to work a phone and all, and I have to learn to deal with customers over a phone, so this is the best way to learn-being thrown headfirst into the fire.
I think I'll get it and hope it's all sinking into my head to be used at a later date.
Unfortunately, the driving bit's going to have to wait until I'm not in training from 8-4 every day of the week...that'll be after next week.
Busy, busy!
Ta,
Bec
I can't move into the apartment I want till October, so I guess I'll wait and be patient for that.
Orientation's going well; I'm learning a lot all at once and I'm going from terrified "I'm never going to learn all of this," to "Hell, this is EASY," all in the span of a couple of minutes. I just keep thinking that I need to do something and this is that something. I have to learn to work a phone and all, and I have to learn to deal with customers over a phone, so this is the best way to learn-being thrown headfirst into the fire.
I think I'll get it and hope it's all sinking into my head to be used at a later date.
Unfortunately, the driving bit's going to have to wait until I'm not in training from 8-4 every day of the week...that'll be after next week.
Busy, busy!
Ta,
Bec
4.8.13
Reposting the Recipe Book Again!
I start my new job tomorrow. Yeah. Lots of nerves going into this.
We have a new pastor coming-Pastor Krahn - and we also have a new Doctor-Peter Capaldi. Good luck to them both.
Meanwhile, we discovered yesterday that the recipe for the Hamburger Chow Mein in the book is completely, utterly wrong. Not sure how it happened but it's so far off that I went and retyped the whole thing.
Unlike many versions of this recipe (it took me four seconds to find one online) we do not use celery in ours because we hate celery around here. We use water chestnuts instead. Also because my mother believes in stretching food as far as it will go, she tosses a bag of frozen stirfry veggies into the dish. It doesn't matter what kind-we've used any old mix-but it gives a bit of color and health to a dish that's very sodium-laced and brownish-grey without veggies in it.
So, I have reposted the recipe book AGAIN, and reposted the link for all of you.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4NSjOV9R_4sWTJPZU1VeGxnek0/edit?usp=sharing
There! Any other major changes, I will post here until the post is so far down that no one can find it anymore. Hopefully, I've caught most of the mistakes already.
Ta,
Bec
We have a new pastor coming-Pastor Krahn - and we also have a new Doctor-Peter Capaldi. Good luck to them both.
Meanwhile, we discovered yesterday that the recipe for the Hamburger Chow Mein in the book is completely, utterly wrong. Not sure how it happened but it's so far off that I went and retyped the whole thing.
Unlike many versions of this recipe (it took me four seconds to find one online) we do not use celery in ours because we hate celery around here. We use water chestnuts instead. Also because my mother believes in stretching food as far as it will go, she tosses a bag of frozen stirfry veggies into the dish. It doesn't matter what kind-we've used any old mix-but it gives a bit of color and health to a dish that's very sodium-laced and brownish-grey without veggies in it.
So, I have reposted the recipe book AGAIN, and reposted the link for all of you.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4NSjOV9R_4sWTJPZU1VeGxnek0/edit?usp=sharing
There! Any other major changes, I will post here until the post is so far down that no one can find it anymore. Hopefully, I've caught most of the mistakes already.
Ta,
Bec
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