Also, someone called me from Seattle, wanting Grants information.

Also, someone called me from Seattle, wanting Grants information.

Tell them it's all about the Benjamins.

I have to call 12 people and try to explain that they've placed a hold on the play version of the Diary of Anne Frank, instead of the diary itself (which is titled The Diary of a Young Girl.)

True story: I was waiting at the desk of the Northside branch to check out a book (the day that branch gets self-checkout will be the Best Day Ever), behind a woman who was very unsure about what book she wanted, but she knew "it's a diary, about a young girl, I think it's a young adult book." The person at the desk had NO IDEA what she wanted. And I'm standing there thinking, "Isn't that Anne Frank?"

So the person at the desk gets a second person involved, but not so the second person can help while the first person checks out the line of people that's formed while they can't figure out what book this diary about a young girl could POSSIBLY be; no, BOTH people are now trying to puzzle out this heretofore completely unknown book. So -- I am not making this up -- they pull in a third person, which makes up the entirety of the employees at the branch. And all 3 of them, along with the very confused patron, look all over the YA section. And someone in the line calls out, "Could one of you please check us out?" Librarian #1 replies, "We're helping someone right now!"

There was almost a riot.

And finally they found it, and the patron says, "See! It's a diary about a young girl! It says so right here!" When Librarian #3 said, "Oh, Anne Frank!" I almost choked someone.

Screwing around on the internet is Admin, right?

Totally. Unless it's done as it is right now, where I am on a conference call AND internet. Multitasked!

Also, someone called me from Seattle, wanting Grants information.

Uh oh, my secret plan is out!

It's 12:30 and I just got to work.

What's an aligner?

The InvisAlign non-braces braces thing.

Benefit of working from home: tater tots for lunch!

(Yeah, I know people who work in offices may be able to go out to a restaurant that serves tater tots, but all I had to do was stroll into my kitchen and toss them in the oven.)

Oh yeah, those were GOOD.

Battered fish at home for lunch plus watching The Good Wife.

Getting back into Real Work mode is hard.

Since I didn't really take time off over the holidays, I get to be the annoying person emailing just-returned folks to remind them of the information they promised me! FEAR ME.