Good Reads Library
An Aggrevating Week , And It's Not Over Yet
In addition to the stolen books with their jackets left for us to find, there has been aggrevating patron after patron this week:
1) I upset the mom of a 4 month old baby, because the nanny kept trying to bring the baby to our Mother Goose Time for 12-24 month olds. I had told her "no" PRIVATELY several times. This week she and the mom and the baby show up in the doorway as the program was beginning, and I said that I had told her already she couldn't bring the baby. In doing so, I embarassed the mom, and I'm sorry about that, but the nanny hadn't told her that I'd already said at least TWICE that the baby couldn't come!!
2) I have one huge Mother Goose Time program and one smaller one, so I am going to have to shift the schedule. I am also going to institute some sort of registration and sign in process, which hopefully will help deal with moms with 4 month old babies and other such fun.
3) A mom keeps trying to get me to put up a large poster for her child's school's book fair in a prominent place. We HAVE a bulletin board for such things, but it's not "visible" enough for her--it's not near the kids things. Yesterday, she tried to get me to put it right near my desk instead of our Halloween displays! She also wanted me to make a public announcement at a program about the fair, and I said no.
Frankly, this mom is one of my number one nudniks--the sort who meets her friends in the children's room, then let the kids run amok while they chat. If I say anything about the little dears pulling books everywhere and jumping on the furniture, they get hostile! So I am not exactly eager to do her favors, even if they WERE possible--which they are not.
4)We had a man in trying to get the address of a prosecutor in the state capital, and somehow our reference librarian couldn't manage to find what he wanted, so he came down and threw a fit. I managed to find what I think he wanted, but he really gave us a time. Meanwhile, my visiting preschool class had arrived for story hour.
5) We bought new chairs for our tables with Friends of the Library money and they don't fit--they're way too small. NOW the company is saying they're "Custom" and can't be returned, and the admin twit is getting nowhere with them. I am going to have to try or we are going to have to try to sell them off and get our money back!
6) I have to go upstairs this afternoon and cover the adult reference desk because everyone is either off or sick. I'm just hoping for a minimum number of teens and that the security guard shows up.
Home hasn't been much better:
SC had a report to do, that was due on Wednesday, and that she should've been working on for the past 3 weeks. Unfortunately, I let the Man get involved and he talked her into an elaborate format (it's a brochure on the state), and when I took over on Monday, I simplified it and he SULKED.
While this was going on, poor JR was getting ignored,and burst out crying because I had to keep shooing her off while I was working with SC and making dinner.
What's the Man doing while this is going on?
Putting up a light in SC's room!!!
It needed doing, but not then. He left me doing all the other things at once and didn't even fathom I might need help. Then he gets mad because we're not doing the report HIS way.
MEN!!!!
I ended up having to take time off on Tuesday, pick SC up, and help her do the report. It looked great, and it was HER work and looked it, which it wouldn't have if I'd let the Man help her do it!!
On top of this, the neo-Nazi gym teacher actually sent home an "interim form"--the sort of form that goes in SC's records--saying she's got problems in PE in terms of "consistent effort" and "positive attitude"
I felt like sending it back with a note that if SC thought she might ever get rewarded for her effort by a "B" in gym, she might be more positive about PE.
Last year her "effort" grade went from a 3 to a 5 by the end of school, but she still only got a "C"!
I didn't send a note, because using so formal a way of marking SC down makes me feel the teacher is out to get her, and wants to document it. Unfortunately for the teacher, I know about such things--I've been a supervisor for 15 years and I know about documentation all too well!
So I'm going in for a conference. With the school counselor present as a witness, and so I don't blow my stack at the Wicked Witch. She is NOT going to bully my daughter this way any more. Period.
I also managed to lose the antenna for my nearly new cell phone, and have had to order a new one, because it's an "Internet purchase only" phone.
And after staying up Wednesday to make several dozen Challah Rolls for an "international dinner" at after school care, I came home to find the Man had brought them home--he'd gotten there too late to share them.
My kids constantly complain I never come to school things. But I work until 6 and the after school people hold the evens from 4-6. Don't they realize the REASON the kids are in day care is because we WORK?
All this--and it's not even a full moon. Who knows what the weekend has in store?
