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Friday, February 5, 2010 | 2:12 pmChanging the layout of this page. It’s only ugly temporarily, I swear.
My gentleman caller from yesterday wound up coming back last night when I wasn’t there instead of this morning. What a relief.
eta: That’s better. Not 100% but good enough for now. I hate editing CSS.
—Gina | no comments
(posted in Miscellaneous)
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Thursday, February 4, 2010 | 10:05 pmSo apparently there is going to be a movie version of Lynda Barry’s book Cruddy. I can’t imagine. I wish Drawn & Quarterly would release the unpublished years of Ernie Pook already. They’ve been promising for years. I have no interest in her current work. :(
Apparently I was supposed to read an entire 300-page book this week. Thanks for letting me know ahead of time, there, teacher person.
And just so this post isn’t a complete waste of time, here are photos of my fantastic new plugs: amber/purple GWS lotus flowers. I took two pictures and couldn’t decide which was better, so here are both. As always, I must mention that my camera refuses to take clear pictures without the flash on, and the camera makes my ears look like a nasty greasy mess. I assure you that they are not.
Swoon. I’m forever yanking them out of my ears and looking at them. Amber purple glass = best ever. You see, my other favorite plugs are also of the amber purple variety:
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(posted in Comics, Jewelry, Miscellaneous)
it’s story time!!
Thursday, February 4, 2010 | 3:36 pmOh, wow.
I was supposed to work a two-hour shift today. About an hour in, I walked into the office, at which point my supervisor exclaimed, “Oh, THERE you are!” As though she’d been looking for me and didn’t know I had been pounding away at the typewriter in the little student worker office thingy for the last hour. She told me there was a ~community user~ coming in who needed to use the microfilms. She asked if I knew how to use the microfilm reader, and I replied that I didn’t think I remembered how.
So we went back to periodicals and she showed me how to use the reader, which proved to be easy enough. But since she was pretty sure that this person would need printouts of the article he was looking for, we had to fire up the computer to which the reader was attached.
It took fifteen minutes for the computer (which is probably close to ten years old) to start and for Windows to load once it allowed me to log on. Once the computer was ready, neither of us was sure what to do, so we had to find the periodicals librarian. She messed around with it for a few minutes, but she couldn’t figure out how to send the print job to one of the employee printers instead of the public ones, which either require a student account or cost money. My supervisor said she would talk to our head librarian, and she and the periodicals librarian both left, leaving me there by myself for another ten minutes or so.
Eventually we were informed that the new employee printer is not networked to print from the public computers, so my supervisor handed me a floppy disk. We would have to save the scan to the floppy, then open the file on one of the office computers and print it from there.
So I popped the disk into the computer, and we tried to save the scan to the disk. The computer crashed. These computers are so old that they still have floppy drives, but they’re also so old that apparently the floppy drives fail most of the time. So this left the coin-op public printer as our only option. They sent me downstairs to at least make sure that the print job from the microfilm computer was showing up on the printer, and it was! Semi-success!
But by the time all of this had transpired, it was time for me to leave, and the person who needed to use the microfilms hadn’t even shown up. I offered to stay behind for another hour or so to see if he would come.
Half an hour later, he did.
This guy needed a forty-year-old article from a popular magazine that had something to do with waterproofing one’s basement. He was positive that the article was in one of the issues from 1974, but he wasn’t sure which. So I fired up the machine and the computer, and popped the film into the reader. There was an index at the beginning of the film, and I looked for the article he needed. I found articles dealing with waterproofing basements in two issues. So I scrolled (and scrolled and scrolled and scrolled) down to the first of the two issues in question. He took one look at the cover of the issue, and said, “That’s not it!”
So I scrolled some more. The entire time, he kept talking about the fact that he only had fifteen minutes before his parking time would be up and the cops were going to give him a ticket and that we’re going to get eight inches of snow tonight (yay!) and maybe he should just come back in the morning when he would have more time. I got to the second issue, and he immediately said, “That’s not it either!” Apparently he knew which issue he needed just judging by the cover. I scrolled through to the next couple of covers, but he didn’t recognize any of them. He said he would just come back tomorrow, and asked what time the library opened.
I replied that the library opened at 8 AM, but there wouldn’t be anybody at the desk until 10.
After he left, I remembered who else is scheduled to work at 10. Damn damn damn.
***
Aaaand one more from last week:
I was at the desk by myself. A girl who had been using one of the public computers asked if there was a way she could listen to audio on the computer. I asked her if she had headphones, and she said that she did, but when she plugged them in, there was no sound.
I took a look at the computer and after looking through the control panel, I realized that there didn’t even appear to be a sound card installed on the machine. We have computer lab assistants who handle this thing for us, so I called them and told them that there was something wrong with the computer.
A few minutes later, one of the guys from the help desk came upstairs. I directed him to the computer in question. He did the same thing that I had done, then said, “Oh, yeah, this is one of the computers that don’t have sound cards.” He told the student to use a different computer. She looked like she wanted to punch him.
I asked him, “Some of the computers don’t have sound cards?”
“Yeah.” He seemed pissed that I had called him for something so obvious.
“How many don’t have them?”
He waved his hand. ”I dunno, like, maybe half?”
“Uh, don’t you think maybe they should be labeled so people don’t try to use them if they need sound?”
He shrugged and left.
Just…wow.
—Gina | no comments
(posted in Library Fun)
Oh, hi, nobody! Let’s go play football on the roof!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | 2:43 pmHere be the Art Club page:
http://www.hearts-n-stars.net/artclub
Not everything is here and some of the images aren’t showing up. I recently started using Kompozer instead of Dreamweaver (it won’t work all of a sudden and I’m not sure why) and Kompozer keeps doing stupid things to my coding (like referring to local image files instead of the ones on the server). Plus I need to make a bunch of thumbnails for the gallery and the tedium is killing me.
Still haven’t written my proposal paragraph. It’s not due until midnight. Feh.
—Gina | no comments
(posted in Comics)
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | 12:39 amI’m supposed to be writing a proposal right now. I’m sure you can guess how well THAT’s going.
I busted my ass today making a new Art Club page! Yesterday I wrote out dialogue and penciled out an entire ten-page (short!) chapter. You know, because I have a proposal I should be writing instead.
The funniest part is the fact that this isn’t really a proposal proposal. It’s just a paragraph. Even still, I’m procrastinating on principle.
Today at the desk we were suddenly swarmed by about fifteen kids. They’d gotten out of class early and had been instructed to come to the library and each check out a play. Apparently they were told that the library had all of the plays shelved together and all they would have to do was ask to be directed to the “play section.” LC classification doesn’t work that way. This isn’t Waldenbooks.
One girl knew which play she wanted to get, so she asked for the call number. My coworker gave it to her, but then told the kids that all of the other plays in the library were not going to be shelved right next to it. I guess they didn’t believe the librarian, because they all went upstairs with this girl and came right back ten minutes later, complaining that they couldn’t find any more plays.
Also at one point during this transaction, said librarian asked one of the kids to be more “pacific.” :( :( :(
Started reading books for my YA class (I have to read 25!!). The first one was such a sweet, wonderful little story and the characters were all just perfect. I haven’t partaken in actual pleasure reading in a long time (unless you count Sweet Valley, and heaven knows that reading them isn’t exactly pleasurable most of the time).
I love Pepsi Throwback. I hate that it’s a limited-time thing, but so long as it comes back on a recurring basis, I think I can deal with going mostly popless for the rest of the year. I kind of stray from the stuff my dietitian made me do, but by and large, HFCS (and white bread) still = fuck no.
ALSO, in the off-chance that you’re in Poland and reading this, don’t buy nail polish from this site. The, uh, gentleman who runs this site (and just so happens to be based out of FLORIDA) has stolen photos from myself and from other nail bloggers. This guy won’t respond to anyone’s emails and he won’t remove the photos. So from here on out, my nail photos will be watermarked to hell and back. :P
Oh, yeah, I applied for a job and I five days later, I’m still shitting my pants over it. I’d tell you where said job opening is located, dear Interwebs, but that would spoil half the lulz. Just suffice it to say that the day I had to drop my resume off at the post office was also the day we had the huge-ass snowstorm of the century and it seemed awfully damned appropriate. :P
—Gina | no comments
(posted in Comics, Library Fun, Miscellaneous, Nail Polish)
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