"Selling snacks can be approved only with a designated cleanup person for each instance (not Steph or Tim). No exceptions." Then they can wrangle about the designated cleanup person until the whole issue is fixed or forgotten.

I'm sure the rest of the board thinks I'm being a dick, but I don't care. If we're supposed to take on a new project, the logistics need to be worked out BEFORE we do it. And no one else is thinking of all the logistics, because no one else stays late enough to clean up. Things like -- if suddenly 15-20 people have bottles of water and snacks, we're going to need bigger (or more) trash cans. And we're going to have to take the trash out before we leave, because we can't leave that for the church (and I have NO idea where the church dumpster is, but I'm willing to bet it's in the back, and I don't want to go out back to the dumpster at 10:30 at night, because -- creepy). When people drop pretzels and then step on them, where is a vacuum cleaner?

The rest of the board doesn't think this is a big deal, because they aren't the ones who have to deal with it.

"Selling snacks can be approved only with a designated cleanup person for each instance (not Steph or Tim). No exceptions." Then they can wrangle about the designated cleanup person until the whole issue is fixed or forgotten.

Actually, that's a good idea -- to say that if there isn't a designated cleanup person, then the snacks don't get brought out to sell. (Of course, the person volunteering to sell them -- but not clean up -- is a bulldozer of a human who will do what she wants anyway, so she'll bring them out to sell them regardless of my objections.)

For your delectation--cats in the library:

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And, yes, this is one of the libraries on the campus where I work.

Slow day at Huffington Post.

Woo, I'm going over to see the new Casa de familia flea!

Barry Kellogg, senior veterinary advisor for The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, told HuffPost there are probably no long-term ill health effects of photocopying a cat, but that the cat probably doesn't enjoy the process all that much.

I'll sleep better now.

(No, I've never photocopied a cat.)

Yeah, buddy. Twenty fucking dollars. Tim said (to me, sarcastically) that he'd just donate that much every month if it meant we don't have to clean up.

Tell them what your hourly rate for janitorial work is. I suggest at least $20/hr. Each.

Conference call from hell.

I find myself needing to learn how to use Excel for it's intended purpose instead of just using it for sorting and layout. Should I go with a Dummies book?