Breakfast for dinner.. And Khadijah is a sneaky Mafia member.

Monday was Memorial day so we had a day off. Which was awesome! I slept late and just spent most of the day doing laundry, reading some books (I'm about halfway done with my Dean Koontz, and I also have been reading my book on Java), and just hanging out with everyone. It was a very fun and chill day, even though I didn't do anything super productive. For dinner, we had BREAKFAST. It was great. Pancakes, and bacon, and all that jazz - delicious and sweet.
Courtesy of Khadijah, Noelle, and Alice, it was a great meal.
Later that night we played a few games. The first of which was a cool game by Noelle which is called "This is a What." It was fast-paced and involved us passing objects frantically around to the rhythm of a chant. It was pretty cool. Next, we played Cranium and, well.. frankly, the girls killed us. Only because there were 4 of them, and 3 of us. And I didn't realize that Monet and Manet were different painters. Oops. After that, we turned off every light in the house, lit two candles... (no we didn't have a seance), and played... MAFIA. In the end, Khadijah's deceptiveness and John Deans's hilarious inaccurate accusations caused Khadijah to emerge victorious. Woot!
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Today, I got to work and my supervisor, Cathy, was back! Hooray! In the morning, I concentrated on working on the Marion Library website, improving minor things, and talking to tech support to resolve logistical issues. That's always fun. In the afternoon, I talked with Cathy about setting up a database to hold all of the student information for Summer Reading this year - it would need to hold contact info and also information like how many reading hours they had accumulated. After several hours of googling and trying programs out, I decided on the Zoho Creator web program (Access 2007 was simply a mess - Microsoft, you've really destroyed what little faith I had left in you), which was easy to use, powerful, allowed me to implement whatever I wanted, and was most importantly, FREE. I set it up, complete with an online signup form on the Marion website, and typed up instructions for the librarians to use. Later in the day, I filled in at the front desk because many of the employees at the library had to attend a funeral for a local student who drowned recently. Working the desk today was hectic- I was the only one up there, and when multiple people come at you, asking you to look books up, give them the bathroom key, sign them up for library cards, give them candy, and give them white-out (yes, all of these things happened within a short span of time), I was a little overwhelmed. At my old job, having lots of people coming at once was never frustrating, but because I was still getting used to all of the policies and procedures, I was operating a little slower than usual. Luckily, I eventually got through it. I also found myself constantly checking the door (out of habit from my job at Radioshack) to see if "customers" (now called patrons) were stealing "merchandise" (in this case, they could have gotten anything in the library for free, ironically enough). I never witnessed this happening, but I guess old habits die hard. I did almost catch a kid stealing the bathroom key though.
My most interesting observation today was that the library often plays the role of daycare/afterschool care unintentionally for many kids in the area. Around 3:30, children of all shapes and sizes began barrelling through the door, wanting things to play with, access to the computers, the bathrooms, the bathrooms, the bathrooms, THE BATHROOMS, and ocasionally some books. The library wasn't exactly a quiet sanctuary, but I suppose this is a better place than many locations for them to hang out - many of the kids were legitamately excited about the books though. The library is certainly an interesting place.
For dinner, we had taco night, courtesy of Brandon and John. Thanks guys!
We have dinner with the mayor tomorrow! Woo!!