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March 30, 2000
WHAT is my problem?!?
I don't know what's going on with my mood lately. I'm cranky and irritable, and just feeling fed up in general. I'm chalking it up to pre-moving stress, though there really isn't anything to stress about -- we have plenty of volunteers helping us (suckers!) and the new place is going to be great, and I can't wait to be out of our old place.
Work is the same as always -- though we did just find out that we are going to be shortstaffed permanently. Really Annoying Guy quit a couple of months ago (yay!) but then the administration got to thinking that we have too many staff members, so maybe we really don't need to hire someone to fill that vacant position. My boss tried to convince them, but it didn't work. We really do need to hire someone -- as it stands now, we can cover the desk, but we can't get any work done away from the desk. The work we do manage to get done is half-assed, because we can't really spend any time on it, because we get interrupted constantly. And forget sick days or vacation time -- that's just a nightmare. I'm dreading taking three days off when we move, just because I know how stressful it will be for Oliver (the other circulation desk person).
I think I'm just tired. I haven't really done much lately, but I haven't been able to fall asleep before 11 or so in a long time, and I have to be up by 5:30. Barry's been working crazy hours, plus he doesn't feel well, so he's usually asleep by about 8 -- I feel like I haven't seen him in two weeks.
Whine whine whine boo hoo, poor little me...
I did start reading a good book yesterday. It's called Those Bones Are Not My Child, and it's a novel based on the Atlanta child murders in the late '70s and earl '80s. I don't know anything about that case, so when it turned up in the book drop here, I snagged it. I've read the prologue and part of the first chapter, and it's beautifully written so far. It also looks like it's shaping up to be extraordinarily depressing.
I finished Motherless Brooklyn yesterday, and felt just the way I expected to -- I wanted to know what happened to Lionel next. The book doesn't have a necessarily happy ending, it just... ends. I wanted to know what Lionel did after that.
The movie version is supposed to be starring Edward Norton. Yippee!
Posted by Mary Ellen at March 30, 2000 12:48 PM