Since I got off of my post-a-day roll I was on, I'll start with yesterday. I came into work, and my supervisor Cathy was still sick. This meant that I would need to find stuff for myself to do. My first project was finishing up the BetterWorld books project (I finally remembered the name of the company!) Turns out this isn't a wholesaler we are selling to for funds for the library; BetterWorld's mission (as stated on its website) is stated as follows: "Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide." Wow, what a cool project! I wonder why they don't want all the books - maybe some of them aren't as effective at combatting illiteracy? Haha, who knows. Anyways, I spent the next hour or two scanning and organizing the last of the books for this project. I think all that's left is printing a shipping label and sending them off.
The next part of the day was "Mother Goose on the Loose" storytime. This is when Jean or Cathy read stories to parents and their children, but they also participate in simple musical activities designed to teach that reminded me a lot of the Kindermusik program I was in as a child. Salley told me to take pictures of everything that went on. Although we only had two parents/children attend, they seemed to enjoy it and the event was still fairly successful.
I got back down to the library basement and several of the ladies downstairs were having trouble with a laptop. I immediately was interested in how I could help. It turns out that this specific laptop was the BookMobile laptop; this one allowed us to check out/in books for the Bookmobile while on the route, eliminating the need for writing down long barcodes and such. I'll spare you the technical jargon, but the bottom line is that we got it going after about an hour and a half of playing with it. I then typed up a list of instructions on how to do everything I'd done - that way, when I leave, everyone will know how to do what I already did. Wow, that last sentence was very confusing, I hope it made sense. After that I rode on the bookmobile again to a variety of locations, most of which were no-shows -- people didn't show up when they were supposed to. So it was relatively uneventful.
I went back to the house and we decided that since John Deans, Noelle, and Alice went to a benefit concert/dinner for a breast cancer patient, that we would go out for dinner. I called Ben Demarco up and asked him what he recommended. He said that T-Roys was a pretty good place. So, after no one really cared where we went, we headed off. T-Roys was dimly lit, although it was very friendly. The prices on the food were a bit expensive, but my French Dip sandwich did not disappoint. We had some great chatter while we were waiting in the mean time. On my way out, I noticed T-Roy's business card/magnet said T'roys. As if it was a fancy French dining restaurant. Then I started thinking, why did Troy feel the need to give himself a nickname if he only had 4 characters in his name? Thus the great spelling/pronunciation debate began. Only it wasn't really much of a debate, I just thought it was funny (so did Khadijah =] ). We came home and watched Ocean's Eleven - I'd seen it before but it's still a great movie - and I went to bed. And that was yesterday!
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Now for today. I got up and went to work. Nothing new there. I was informed I'd be riding on the bookmobile all day til around 2 PM. Nothing truly eventful happened other than we were using the laptop for the first time. It worked out well. At 2, I went home for a lunch break and had a VERY productive break - I made a calzone for lunch, made sweet tea for the first time since I've been here (it was heavenly and Davi
d Womble approved too!), and started the Italian-cut green beans (which I got fatback for from Food Lion on the way to the house). Back at work I worked the counter for a little while. When I got home, Noelle and I got messy and did our chicken, marinated in awesomeness, made the mashed potatoes/gravy, and just made an AMAZING meal. I think it tasted just a little better because we made it. A good day. Later, we went to Dr. Demarco's house and watched and discussed an interesting PBS show on single-payer healthcare - we crammed far too many people for legality into the back of John Deans's truck and road over all in one car. And we saved gas! Tomorrow, hopefully pancakes!!!
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