It's Officially Summer at the Library.

Last Friday morning I registered my first Russian lifeguard of the summer.  She was by herself and they usually come in groups so I guess the timing of my shifts has something to do with it, irregardless --- summer is here.

We only have a few more weeks before S.R.P. starts up and all hell breaks loose. 
So here's to all public libraries, may you survive yet another summer reading program doing the most with less resources than before --- you are not alone!

Summer Session of Hell

2 core classes.
6 weeks.
6 - blog posts.
3 - issue papers.
2 - 10 page research papers.
2 - group projects: 2 presentations, one 10 page paper.
1 - web heuristic analysis: 3 page paper.
1 - IR analysis: 5 page paper.
1 - library figure analysis: 5 page paper and presentation.
1 - HTML/CSS/XML project.
It all adds up to one effing busy start to the summer. But its over and I can de-stress the rest of the summer until fall semester starts.

Summer is officially here and the dreaded SRP is back, the holds list for Twain and Steinbeck grew exponentially overnight. Also making a return are the Russian lifeguards, I noticed they're all from Kyrgyzstan this year.

I am going to attempt to read more(? can't technically be referred to as "more" when it's nonexistent) during my down time. I've placed holds on all of the "Worst-Case Scenario" series. I know it's not classic literature but it's a start and who knows when one will need to know how to survive a runaway sled or how to survive a riot.

You Know its Summer when...

You register the first wave of Russian lifeguards. You would think I would have learned some Russian by now because no matter where I work there is always a group of them like clockwork when school ends.