Employment.

...has nothing to do with this post. Well, other than the fact that I'm writing this from work. Actually, I don't have much to say that I can think of. Believe it or not, little has happened since writing at 10:30 or so last night. So maybe I will talk about my job. I work in Interlibrary Loan in the Neil Hellman Library at The College of Saint Rose. Now, when someone says 'working at a library', most people picture the circulation desk. Not so. Well, I used to work in circulation at my last college, Castleton. It was nice because I rarely had to do actual work. Here it's different. Instead of sitting there waiting for someone to check out a book, or 'shelf-reading', which is a fancy word for being set loose into the library with a piece of paper, ostensibly for the purpose of finding books out of order and fixing them, while really picking up random books to read or sleeping, I have to do real work.

Real work is a subjective term though, and I'm sure there is many a cook or builder thinking, "you move books around all day, you pussy." And they would be right. Interlibrary loan involves circulating books to and from different libraries all over the world. (Any time you say 'all over the world', it just sounds impressive. It sounds like overnighting parcels through any of the many large worldwide shipping companies is a big deal or something.) So when I work, I process books coming in and going to our patrons, as well as books being returned to other libraries. On the other side, I send books to other places as well as take them back. This is interesting, yes? No. I'm falling asleep writing it. Sometimes I scan journal articles. Yeah.

Speaking of which, I should be doing some of this now.

I just did some stuff, which means that now I have to more stuff, more specifically, go to the other parts of the library to find books and journal articles. Then scan them. See? Told you.

While I was rambling about work, I thought of some other things I may want to blog about, just for an update. I'm still trying to find a flow to this thing. But either way, I may wind up posting again tonight.

Peace.