The break in

So, I have a sad story to tell. Just yesterday morning I went to my car and found it unlocked, and I then realized that it had been broken in to. Yes, they took my stereo and my burned CD's. Also, they took the ashtray drawer, that was filled with pennies. Can you believe that? I'm not sure if I left the door unlocked the night before, I was carrying groceries. I can tell they rooted around the car and even in the trunk. I'm trying to remember if I had anything of worth in there, but I don't see anything missing. I am so frustrated, especially about having to replace the stereo. I did call the police to report it, but you know they can't do anything.

Well, on a lighter note. Our ward had a goal to have a 40-day fast and they wanted to have someone from the ward fasting and attending the temple on each day. So, I signed up for temple attendance every week. It's been so nice. I went yesterday and did an hour's worth of initiatories and it was great. I have loved going weekly this last month and I want to keep that up and go weekly, or every 2 weeks. The temple is so close, I need to take advantage of it more. I vowed I would after living in Taiwan and having to travel two hours to the temple.

I might be promoted to be an assistant in another department. I had an interview, for the 3rd floor, last week and then just today I had a call from the Sprague library wanting to interview me. So, the advantages of becoming an assistant would be that I could learn more what a librarian does and maybe become a paid librarian when I graduate, which is soon.

Vertigo

I started out with a heavy work load - the I got sick. First, my Vertigo came back, which I hate, then I got a head cold - then the Vertigo came back really bad. I was down for two days. It was horrible. Anyway, I have decided to see a doctor next week to get rid of the dizzy head. I think either a Ear,Nose, & Throat doctor, or a Neurologist. Anna and Kade, and myself, believe that it's something with the fluid in my ears. Anyway, I'm just sick it coming back and nothing being able to deal with it.

I gave a talk to day in Sacrament mtg and it was a recap of a General Conference Talk. So, I didn't want to tell the bishopric member that I only got to see once session, because of school, but Elder Uchtdorf's talk about repentance came to my mind first thing - so I thought I would use that one - and not tell anyone that I missed the rest of conference. I just printed out the talk and highlighted the key points of the talk, adding in a few comments here and there. I think it went well, and I got many compliments on it - so there you go.

Summer Graduation

My sister, Anna, had baby Emilia last weekend and I was on babysitting duty Sunday evening, Monday and Tuesday. I went to see the baby on Tuesday and she's so cute! I just saw them yesterday at their house and got to hold baby Emilia for a while.

So, later that week I had to scramble to finish up some assignments for my upcoming class that weekend. Class went well enough. I did hear some good news from my adviser. So, I did some graduate classes at the UofU a while back and I was hoping that I could get them transferred for credit towards my degree. So, I finally got the paper work done and my adviser told me that she's confident that those will transfer over successfully and if that's the case, then I have more than enough credits to graduate. Yippee! I still have to complete a Capstone class, which I am nervous about, but if I only have that to worry about next semester - I'll be fine. So, I'm hoping to graduate at the end of the summer and Mom and Dad are interested in going with me to Kansas for a graduation ceremony. You have to get the Master's hood! Well, I might be jumping the gun at this point. The "intent to graduate" deadline already passed - but my adviser is looking into seeing if I can slip in for next semester. I can't even tell you excited I am about that! I am so ready to be done with school! It's been 10 years since I graduated from high school and 7 of those years I have still been in school!

Gorilla Librarian

Stomp the Yard

I just got back from the Dollar Theater with my roomies, we watched Stomp the Yard. It was way good and had some incredible stomp dancing. It was totally a dance movie for guys - let me explain. Newcomer comes to school/town, tries hard to learn how to dance and to become friends, etc. Conflict of some sort, then big finale with great dancing and they win the prize or reward, etc. Yep, that was it in a nutshell. What was nice was that I don't remember hearing any swearing and there were no love "scenes".

So, I didn't get that job at Sandy Library. It's all good - my application is still in the system and I was told that I ranked pretty well. I'm sure another offer will come soon. There may be some openings as Assistants, full-time, in the city library so I'm keeping my ears open.

"A usual day at the library..."

Not much to report on my end. I had school this last weekend and learned about library collection development - in other words: collecting materials(books, CD's, DVD's, magazines, etc.) for your library. It's not so easy as it would sound - just because you have to write out a policy giving you some sort of standards or you might have to collect porn or something else horrible. Anyway, that's the short of it. My teacher, who is from Cedar City, told us a funny story about a librarian who was asked a question: "Where can I get a book about Jesus?". Well, without questioning him further, she took him to the religion section and pointed a some good books to look at and then returned to her desk. Well, the patron came back and said, "Well, I appreciate what you showed me about Jesus, but I wanted books on cheese!". (hehe) It just shows that librarians need to question further before finding books for them!

Oh, I have to tell you something that happened last night at the downtown library. The security guards office is next to our check-in stations. So, I'm checking in some books when I hear, then see, the two cops escorting a guy who is talking loudly and screaming profanities. Who knows what was happening to get him all upset. Right before they took him inside the office he started saying, "Hiel Hitler!". We were all trying not to stare, but were shocked just the same. We could hear him continue to yell and scream for some time and finally he calmed down and was allowed to leave the library. The cops came by afterwards and told us that he was "totally wasted" and he hated Germans, how is that relevant?, and that he wanted to go to jail. He was most likely homeless. The cop said they didn't have enough to arrest the guy, and he wouldn't go to jail just because he wanted to. Well, we thought we were done, but then we hear screaming out front. He had come back! He was returning some books at the circulation desk and started getting upset again. They took his library card away, revoked his Internet privileges and put a note on his account for further reference. Well, my goodness! My boss was joking, "A usual day at the library..."

So, I just finished my training to become a substitute circulation worker for the county libraries, and so now I can sub at all the libraries around the valley. I already have two assignments this week, one in Draper and one in South Jordan. This will be good because it can bring in some more money, which I desperately need, and also get my face out there just in case they want to hire me full time or something. I did have an interview at the Sandy library last week and I'm still waiting on their results. Did I already tell you this? Well, the problem that I realized after was that it has the same hours that I usually work at the city library. I called Dad right afterward and got his advice, or just talked it out with his help. I would most likely quit the city job. The pros of the Sandy job were: 1)It would give me a few more hours, 2) I wouldn't have to work on Sundays, 3) It would give me insurance benefits. The only con is that it's all the way out in Sandy, but that's ok. So, now I'm waiting to hear back and am wondering what will happen in the next few weeks.

Job interview

Well, I'm been crazy crazy with work and stuff. I've started my second job so, sometimes will work two 4 hour shifts a day. That's ok, I need the money, but I wish I didn't get so tired! Hopefully I'll get used to it! So, I just had an interview for a job at the Sandy Library, part-time, and I'm excited for the prospects. I would get medical benefits and also wouldn't have to work on Sunday, and I would have a set schedule. But, if I do get hired then I will probably will have to quit my job at the City library and that makes me kind of sad - I'm starting to enjoy it there. But, they want me to work at the same time and I also need to do an internship this summer at the Children's library and at a school library. So, it's in the Lord's hands what will happen now and I hope that it all work out! Of course it will!

1987 - Betty Glover Library Workout Tape Ad

Volunteer Cat Ladies

So, we have some older ladies who volunteer at the city library almost daily and they are funny ladies. When I say funny, I mean interesting. I have found that I can't stop to talk to them unless I have five minutes to stand and listen. Not that that is a problem, but who wants to hear irrelevant stories? What is even more funny is that one, who is actually self-named Elizabeth, has disclosed that she has multiple cats. Yep, you guessed it, she's a cat lady and it's real sad. I can tell she's lonely because when she comes up to my desk in her motorized jazzie seat she'll start talking about the book she just recently read or what her cats were doing, etc. etc. What am I to do? I politely listen, what more can be done? (hehe)

Yesterday I spent the day with Mom and Anna came by with the boys. We had a chick-flick movie marathon - well actually we first watched Nanny McPhee and enjoyed that. What was fun was that the nanny is really ugly at the beginning of the movie, when the kids are very "naughty" and as the kids start learning how to behave and she loses her warts and "snaggletooth" and at the end she is her beautiful original self. It was a heart-warming story. Awww.... (hehe)

Here's more Deep Thoughts from Jack Handey:

At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.

Renewal Phone

I got trained yesterday at the library on "Circ 1" and now I can answer phone calls and renew patron's books and stuff. That's a lot, because we get many calls for renewals and all I was able to do before was just answer the phone and put them on hold. So far it's been going well, with only a few confusing ones with people with thick accents. What was frustrating was that one of my younger coworkers, after I asked him a question about something, was acting kind of know-it-all and was almost put out and was like, "Wow, they are rushing you guys aren't they" - implying that we weren't ready to be trained on new things, etc etc. Anyway, I was perturbed by his condescending attitude and did my best by telling him what I did know and was capable of. He just shook his head.

It turns out that I have a buyer for my scooter in Taiwan - I'm excited because that's $200 for me! I do wish I could have brought it back and could drive it here. Maybe someday I'll buy one...(hehe)

Here is a Jack Handey quote to make you smile: "If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go limp, because you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."