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I can't believe I'm still recovering from my shift on Thursday night. It's Friday night already!
Admittedly, it was about 80 freakin' degrees in the building all day. Which means that me, being all dressed for cooler November was sweating the moment I stepped in the building. It was so hot all night that I was struggling not to fall asleep at my desk.
On a slightly cooler work related note, and not on a temperature scale, I have gotten the best compliments from some of the kids who have just started coming in more often. And why are they coming in more often, I'm buying the books they want. Namely manga.
After a long conversation, which mostly consisted of these two boys grilling me on everything I knew: "You are the coolest librarian ever." And in a rather awed tone of voice. hehe.
A few days later I spoke with the mother of the two boys, she came upstairs to check on the younger, then came over to speak to me while he was still browsing: "I just heard the last thing I ever would have expected to hear from *my* child, he said "Mom can I come to the library like once a week?"."
And the last one, I just got earlier this week. Once of the boys that part-timed with us over the summer came up to meet his mother (who works for us now), and said "One of the kids on my bus was saying that he needed to go pick up a new manga volume that was out, but then changed his mind saying that the library would probably have it soon enough."
I so win.
And to think that my supervisor fought buying them for like 3 years. I'd love to figure out what the percentage of the teen circ stats are the manga.
Admittedly, it was about 80 freakin' degrees in the building all day. Which means that me, being all dressed for cooler November was sweating the moment I stepped in the building. It was so hot all night that I was struggling not to fall asleep at my desk.
On a slightly cooler work related note, and not on a temperature scale, I have gotten the best compliments from some of the kids who have just started coming in more often. And why are they coming in more often, I'm buying the books they want. Namely manga.
After a long conversation, which mostly consisted of these two boys grilling me on everything I knew: "You are the coolest librarian ever." And in a rather awed tone of voice. hehe.
A few days later I spoke with the mother of the two boys, she came upstairs to check on the younger, then came over to speak to me while he was still browsing: "I just heard the last thing I ever would have expected to hear from *my* child, he said "Mom can I come to the library like once a week?"."
And the last one, I just got earlier this week. Once of the boys that part-timed with us over the summer came up to meet his mother (who works for us now), and said "One of the kids on my bus was saying that he needed to go pick up a new manga volume that was out, but then changed his mind saying that the library would probably have it soon enough."
I so win.
And to think that my supervisor fought buying them for like 3 years. I'd love to figure out what the percentage of the teen circ stats are the manga.
