my day job…

i’m an interlibrary loan librarian. so if we don’t have a certain book at our library, i ask other libraries if we can borrow theirs. if they want one of ours, they ask me.

i wish i had a dime for every time someone has asked me if their book is in yet:

Your turn: “I wish i had a dime every time __________________________.”

23 thoughts on “my day job…

  1. Them: “My email won’t send… it has been 37 seconds since it last worked.”

    Me: “Remember when I told you that for 30-45 minutes at a time, do to congestion, mail MAY not send? And how I followed that info with: if it lasts more than a few hours, tell one of the tech guys?”

    Them: “Ohhhh, yeah.”

    Me: “let me know if it still won’t send by the end of the day”

    Them, tomorrow: “It worked again yesterday, but it has been 39 seconds since my email last sent!”

  2. Travis- hahahaha…I hope Jon’s not one of those people! :)

    I wish I had a dime for every time someone asked me if and when I am going to have another child! OMG>>> it’s been 81/2 years since the last one… pretty safe to say, I am done! :)

  3. I wish I had a dime for everytime someone looks at me funny when I praise God or acknowledge Christ as my Savior! They look at me with surprise like “you don’t LOOK like a Christian” because I’m South Asian and people expect me to either be Muslim or Hindu. Hmmm..

    Oh and another dime everytime someone asks me which agency I’m the ED for [they have not established my title as of yet and there are a million organizations hoping I'm their ED--don't ask, it's a terribly sad story!]

  4. I wish I had a dime every time I change a diaper!!!

    I smiled when I read about your day job- when I was in grad school me and our ILL librarian were tight… I swear I saw her once a week… but not in that annoying “has my stuff arrived yet” sort of way :)

  5. I wish I had a dime every time someone tells me how lucky I am to be so thin as they scarfed down that double cheese burger.

    I wish I had a dime every time someone complains about their job when there are so many people wishing they had a job.

    I wish I had a dime every time I patted my self on the back for a job well done, just before I hit the wrong button and screwed the whole thing up. :)

  6. I was a Circulation Desk clerk during my undergrad for three years. I used to open the library as well – nothing scarier than being the FIRST person in a huge library in the early morning, all the lights are out, everything smells dusty, and oh…the smell of old theology books! =)

    I wish I had a dime for every one of those books.

  7. Brooke: how DO you put up with Jay? ;)

    Amy: i’m SOOOO glad you aren’t one of “those” patrons!!!

    Sarah: HEY WOMAN! fun – librarians. yes. scary!!!! and i WISH i had a dime for all the books too. ugh

  8. Mandy – MR. Love???? So Formal, so respectful sounding – so not like your normal self? ;-) .

    Tam must be having a good effect on you :-)

    I wish i had a ten cent piece… (we Aussie’s don’t ‘doo’ dimes and penny’s have been removed from circulation for decades)… for every time someone left a comment on Tam’s Blog – i could retire in a second.

    Thank You ’57′

    Actually it’s 34 = 7 and 54 = 9 and 103 = 4

    act = 7 9 4 = 20 = 2

    Morning #2!

    Luck-ee

    (no toilet jokes, please!)

    <B

  9. Mr.Love: so, NOW i’m #2 if you go by my initials, and you DON’T want anyone to make potty jokes about this? ah huh…. these numbers just crack me up! did i mention that my husband was a math major in his undergrad degree? yes. he’s a genius. :) as for my “normal” self, well, i’m actually pretty nice and polite in real life. i know – who’d believe it! tam is about the only person i pick on… and, that only happens on the net (remember the vid? we have a whole ‘nuther relationship – kinda like sisters?) anyway. yeah.
    Mr.Love i thought would be better than just “love” in my blogroll… and i try to keep my blogroll matching the names that people use ON my blog – that way newbies won’t get confused when connecting commenters with blogroll names.
    see? i’m nice. :)

  10. Drew a Math Major??? Oh Dear – you poor girl – it’s worse than i thought! (Note to self: – go easy on the little Southern dear – she’s only compensating for life’s deprivations).

    Slight correction Hun, you are 2 (the word Number is not really ‘appropriate’) by reason of your FULL name – not your initials (i only used them for simplicity and ‘privacy’ concerns. ( not that you’ve made your name all that private) ;-) people probably should be just a litle more careful with personal details on the net! The Number of your Name is 794 and that ‘reduces’ to 2

    Mine is 645 which becomes 6… make of those what you will, but to me it just means you are not a Beast (666)

    See – i can be nice too :-)

    And i am not going to forget the Vid – especially whenever i have trouble going off to sleep! ;-) ;) SHORT – Short videos – Snappy and to the point!

    I look forward to the next much shorter one! :-) … and the answer to my question i posted on Tam’s copy of the post.

    and you BETTER know that i get you and tam’s relationship and that i was doing my best to borrrow your style and feel the same way about you as Tam does.

    You’re SO spoiled :-)

    <B

  11. what’s with your horrible cow-hide dress?

    i wish i had a dime every time someone asked me what country i live in AFTER i’ve already told them south africa. (they think it’s like south america or something????)

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