1. Traffic gridlock. Turn around and try another route. Still terrible. Awful people speeding up slow lane and cutting in. Awful people in slow cars, I guess all BMW's have that tragic problem going up hills. Late, late, late.
2. Called ahead to let staff know I'd be late. Left message. The person who checked it, did not pass on this knowledge to the other info. deskstaff. No one knew where I was.
3. I could not find the class I was supposed to visit at a local school. Spent 20 minutes filling out visitor forms and searching. Empty class, empty library, not in the gym, teacher across the hall was veryunfriendly and unhelpful (jealous maybe?), not in computer lab where they should be. Aha. Teacher forgot. Teacher librarian told me that I should really send reminders. In a perfect world...During my longest stint of full time teaching, I only had one visitor. The local RCMP officer. Only one brave enough?
4. Could not find necessary bookclub supplies at the Zellers on my lunch break. I suceeded only in setting off the alarm and purchasing chocolate. The alarm situation was stressful. The chocolate situation was calming, but guilt inducing.
I happened to be carrying a large suspicious computer bag, stuffed with books and school visit supplies. They asked me to walk through it several times. Disturbing nearby coffee drinkers (who chooses to drink coffee at a table in the mall under the glowing Zellers sign? - well, old people) I almost had to dump my belongings for the store manager, I even flashed my library nametag. This humiliation was witnessed by one other library staff member who casually walked through the gates while I was explaining (didn't even stop to help me!) and a storytime mother and child crew.
I just want to go home and crawl into my bed. Alas, 2.5 more hours....
Stiff Librarian
(in fact that might be my next blogline) - not as in dead. Simply, uptight and bent out of shape.
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