Week Wrapup

I wanted to just blog about a few random things from this week. None of these really necessitate a full post, but I really wanted to talk about them.

• construction cones- There have been construction cones and a Road Closed sign sitting near my street all week. Not in the street, just near it. So everyone in the neighborhood has been parking on the side streets avoiding the main drag. They're still sitting in the grass tonight. I was a little bothered by the fact that I had no idea what was going on. I was more distracted by the fact that the city just left them there for the entire week taunting me. I've sort of had this weird desire to have one of those tall, skinny construction cones. Not entirely sure why, but walking past them all week has been kind of mean. :(

• library cleaning- We had a staff cleaning day on Thursday. That meant coming to work in "grubby" clothes, i.e. jeans and t-shirts so we could clean for most of the day. Most of tackled our offices/desk. You may not think this sounds fun, but clearly you've never met or worked with my boss. At 9:30am we had break (treats like we do every week). Laid out on the tables of a classroom were "treasures" our director had kept from the past. Old notes from crazy patrons, funny drawings from old student workers, photos of the old library, even old "guess what this is" items for those of us under 30. After wandering around the room and hearing stories about what or who the items were from we tackled the cleaning with the promise of prizes in the afternoon. We haven't had a day like this in 6 years, so some of our offices haven't exactly been deep-cleaned in a while. We awarded certificates (for real!!) for Oldest, Funniest, Weirdest, and "Why did I/we keep this." We went around the room presenting our submissions before deciding on winners. What a fun day. I haven't laughed that hard in a while, and now I have an amazingly clean office.

• heat advisories- It's definitely been popsicle weather. Wednesday we were in a heat advisory from noon-9pm. We've already got one for tomorrow too. Temps in the 90s + dewpoints in the 70s = ugly ugly weather. The electric bill is gonna suck this month for sure. Too much time with the fans and/or air con on. Boo. It also has made sleeping not so easy.

• writing short stories- I'd forgotten how much I miss writing. It's been slow going this week as I've been a bit busy, but I'm hoping by Sunday to have more to post here. It's been fun to hand write again. I've done most of my creative writing longhand. I'm a little rusty at it however, when I realized that I was half hoping/expecting a squiggly line to underline my misspelled words!
• haircuts- I love getting my hair cut. You've heard this before multiple times on this blog. Here's what it looks like now.

It's lighter than it was before. As Lynn said, "I put a lot in this time, but it's summer." It's nice to hack off a few inches. It'd gotten so long that I could pull it up into a passable ponytail!