Meanwhile At the Office

So living with two people isn't that terribly different than living with one, I have discovered. Well, I mean, logically there is greater finagling over the bathroom. :) But, other than that, we cohabitate pretty darn well, I do believe. I suppose it helps that we all have insane schedules and aren't even home all that much.

I started cross-training in the Reference office today, which mostly consisted of me trying to figure things out without asking too many questions of my lame boss. I mean lame in the literal sense - he got himself kneecapped by a drunk in May and just returned to work a few weeks ago. I try not to impose upon the hobbling guy too much, but he did have to show me around the back of the Circulation area to where the Reference department hides the reserved section that I have to update periodically. It's only been one day and I've already discovered more to the library than I ever knew existed! I thought I was pretty conversant with all the levels and hidden staircases, but there are office sections that I never suspected of existing before. I think it's kind of cool, that the working parts of the library are so well-hidden that you never get the impression you're in a very peculiar sort of office building.

If you couldn't tell by my blabbing, I love the Reference job so much more than the EIC desk. I actually do things! Things that don't involve telling people for the millionth time how to print or where the Library classrooms are located. I wish I could completely transfer, but for now I'm stuck working both posts. Maybe I will grow as tired of the office, though, after I've worked there awhile. It could, I suppose, simply be the new experience, but I actually enjoyed the sorting and wandering amuck and filing, so I don't believe my opinion will alter.

If it does, please do me the favor of not mentioning this post. Who am I kidding? I'll probably mention it myself and laugh at my naivete. "You silly girl, how little you knew then, of the wide ways of the world, of the flight and fall of human emotions!"

Um, wow. Maybe I should get some sleep.