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February 16, 2000
I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Whoooo, am I ever in a rotten mood. No particular reason for it, I just woke up this way.
Well, there are little things contributing. I have a headache, and I just discovered that I left my trusty bottle of Advil at home. I was awakened from my happy snoozing at ten minutes to five this morning by the doorbell ringing -- Barry had gotten up very early for work, and, after leaving, he discovered that he'd forgotten his cell phone. After I leaped out of bed and opened the door (having about twelve little heart attacks in the process) I asked why he hadn't just let himself in. He said his key to the deadbolt is in his desk at work. Huh?
The T was grumpy this morning, too -- the Red Line was having problems, so it took me much longer than usual to get here. When I did, I made the mistake of reading some posts to a new librarians listserv I'm on. I'm not a librarian yet, but this listserv is usually very informative and fun. Quite often, students like myself will post questions to the list regarding assignments -- I asked for suggestions on where to find articles on a specific topic once, because I was stumped. Someone responded to the list complaining about how inappropriate it is to ask for help with homework, and saying (rather nastily) that the students who post questions are lazy and want other people to do their work for them. Made me mad, on top of being grumpy. I was happy to read all of the indignant respones to the nasty poster -- librarians are, after all, supposed to enjoy helping people. I haven't been on the listserv for long, but none of the homework help questions I've read have been inappropriate.
Okay. Enough griping... for now, at least. Here's a really cool story about reading to kids. It made me smile, a bit.
Posted by Mary Ellen at February 16, 2000 09:52 AM