Russell Stover is officially my new favorite place in Marion.

So today was very eventful, tiring, and exciting. I got to work at around 9:30, and worked on the website some while I waited for my supervisor to get there. When she did, I was assigned the task of cutting out all of the library's promotional bookmarks for the summer reading camp that starts on June 1st. Using a paper cutter that was able to cut a few papers at a time, I proceeded to cut them all out - 2 hours later, I had a stack of 2,776 bookmarks. That's a lot of page-marking. These will supposedly be distributed to local children and schools soon to promote all the activities. I took lunch and came back at 1.
When I got back, Cathy informed me I had some forms to input into the computer from students who had already signed up for the reading program - exciting! We now have like 5 or 6 students signed up - of course, we'll have loads more soon. Once I finished that, Cathy gave me the task of going around to various local businesses in Marion, and soliciting donations for the program. I strategically chose the places I asked for donations in correspondance with places I wanted to check out in Marion that I had never been to - For instance, the Russell Stover outlet was more than happy to give me a bag of free chocolate for the kids, and also some free samples for myself. I conveniently asked Burger King if they wanted to donate, and bought some ice cream while I was there. I also visited Professional Pharmacy, which is an incredibly cool local pharmacy with a full-service lunch counter with sandwiches and milkshakes; I'm definitely going to do lunch there one day. The process was definitely frustrating overall with the amount of "no"s that I got, but it was still worth it - I was productive to a considerable extent.
I got back to the library and helped fix the printer for one of the computers in the reference room, and started an ongoing project for re-imaging another one of them that I should be able to fix tomorrow.
Once at home, we waited on the mayor's wife, Melina, and daughter (whom we had invited to dinner - the mayor himself couldn't make it because of a meeting) to arrive. We had delicious pesto pasta served by Charlotte and Khadijah, with brownies that were OUT OF THIS WORLD. So gooey, and so good. There was some great conversation about how Noelle and the mayor's daughter Hayley had a lot of stuff in common (John and Kate + 8 and also fashion designing), and we got to hear about the inner workings of She Magazine, which Melina manages.
After dinner, we played a word game called Contact, and kind of just chilled. Another exciting day tomorrow, for sure! WOOO!