Rainy Day!

And I don't mean my sister's stuffed reindeer, either.

We're getting slammed with rain here thanks to the passing hurricane. And if there's one place I could name as the worst place to have leaks on a rainy day, I've got to name the library. But that's how it is at Pohick (and, from what I've heard, most of the other libraries in the area). The librarians took turns going on "leak checks" every few minutes. By the end of my shift (started a little before 9am, ended a little after noon) they had just about run out of plastic sheets. There was a huge dripping situation in the front right over the Hot Picks shelf, which became a pile of plastic over bookcases and carts to the side holding books. There were trash cans placed strategically all over the library I had to walk around when doing Picklist (did the whole 3 pages myself). But the worst was one of the staff's cubicles where it was a small waterfall right by the desk. Had to move everything out quite quickly and they called the county building people about that one, but no one showed up to look at it while I was there. Apparently, there's no way of predicting where drips will occur, either. It happens all over the place in completely different places every time. For example, last time we had a major storm (one that knocked our power out for a day) I showed up the day after and saw two bookcases in nonfiction (around the 500's or 600's) covered in plastic. Today, that section was bone dry but further up in the 700's and 800's we'd broken out the plastic trash cans. Thank goodness the worst of the storm is hitting during the day when people were at the library to patrol! I would be terrified for the fates of those books otherwise!

I would also like to brag that I completed the bookdrop in record tme this morning. I finished at 10:10. (The library opens at 10am, so getting it done just 10 minutes after opening isn't bad at all!) Okay, so it was only a bin and a half instead of the 2 or 3 full bins I've been getting lately, but still I feel much pride.

In honor of the exceptionally rainy day, the library staff made soup for us all. Lovely vegetable soup. I don't even really LIKE vegetable soup but I had some and it was fantastic! And it was nice to finish up a shift by eating a nice bowl of soup, talking with the staff, and watching the rain pour down outside. Very nice indeed.