This morning we found hundreds of pages from looseleafs (some from the stacks, some from reserve) all stacked up on a book cart willy-nilly with a note stuck on it that said, "Please do not touch, doing research." It's going to take some unlucky tech services student many hours of tedious labor to refile all those pages.

Oh.My.God. That person should be shot.

Working for one of those publishers of looseleaf reporters, I sooo feel for that student who's going to have to refile those pages.

yikes. so busy, msbelle.

In the past 10 days, I lead 17 hours of PD. I had a totally weird moment on Tuesday when one participant complained about Obama's oratory patterns and an African American woman got offended and called him on it (called him negative all the time, told him to be quiet etc...). He then said something about "People like you" which he had also said at another meeting where I was not present. She got rightly offended at that. He then tried to explain it wasn't a black thing and he isn't racist, after all his parents worked to integrate his neighborhood as a kid and he was the first kid to befriend the African American kids.

I didn't know how to respond except to try to cluck them back into writing (which is what we were doing). It was a classic example of things NOT to say. I apologized to the woman for not intervening more forcefully and she apologized for disrupting my class. Though the truth is, I'm not sure what offended her about his comment about disliking the oratory pattern of Obama.

It was uncomfortable. I handled it poorly. But I expect adults to be adults. And I think some of this sprung from underlying tensions or previous issues.

Kat, we use this stuff: [link]

It got the best rating of the natural ones when Slate did a test a few years back.

Thanks, all! Send coffee! I have gronk!

Kat, when people are putting their feet in their mouth, there's only so much you can do.

My week has gone from busy to crazy - all good, but Sat I will be jelly.

Apparently too busy to check out the umbrella farm that you requested.

Oh well, with a schedule like that I suppose I can cut you some slack.

Happy birthday, Ple! I hope you have some alone time to spin your brain into fascinating and baroque bulletproof kinks, and top it off with Scotch and Canadian candy.

Good luck with the craziness msbelle.

Sounds like you got the situation under control Kat. Seems like a win to me.

This morning Emaryn was putting on sunscreen and accidentally splattered some on her leg. This prompted Leif to comment that it looked like a Jackson Pollock. It was sort of a WTF? moment for my wife and I.

Happy Birthday Plei!

Happy Birthday Plei!

Leif is a prodigy!

Oh, and happy birthday, Plei!!

Happy Birthday Plei!