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[dream_labyrinth]

I probably owe you guys some sort of interesting post by now, it seems I haven't written anything decent here in weeks.

I don't know why, but I seem to be always tired. I have so little energy, I take every opportunity to skimp out on stuff I should do - is skimp even a word? Dictionary says yes, but it doesn't actually fit, but I don't care.

This is how worn out I am, I don't even care about English vocabulary anymore!

Definitely no writing for me today.

agrathea, I did start reading yesterday and finished chapter 1, added some comments. I'll keep going over the weekend, I promise.

Because, ladies and gentlemen, I have been made a beta reader! How cool is that?!

Anyway, back to the whining. I do know the problem. I'm pushing myself like crazy at work, giving myself goals that are almost impossible to reach. I figure I spend about ten hours at work every day, and I don't actually take breaks. And cataloguing is about the most frustrating thing I know. Especially when after the first half hour, I find myself wishing to kill several librarians in other libraries because their utter stupidity clearly makes them unfit for company. My company, most importantly. I don't care if the ruin somebody else's catalogue, just not around where I need to work.

I let my minion do a lot of crappy work today, and also tomorrow. She's not happy but hey, somebody's got to do it, and as her boss, I am in the priviledged position to delegate the brainless, annoying jobs. I got to get something out of this, after all!

I also got her to finally get a move on organising for some books to be sent to other libraries. Some books - well, it's more like probably a few hundred kilograms of books. Volumes and volumes of old journals that we don't need anymore. Too heavy to send by mail, and we don't have the necessary number of boxes anyway. So I told her weeks ago to call the necessary people - whom she knows personally - to make arrangements. Today I basically held her hand through the whole process and it took five minutes to get everything planned out. But I refuse to do everything here!

Argh, I got the headache from hell.
It's really early, but I'm still going to try and get a decent amount of sleep tonight.

Comments

[jonthedull.livejournal.com]

Don't worry too much about English vocabulary, if there's anything good about English, it's that likes to be abused.

As far as Katrin having being given all the crappy work... tell her that what ever task she has is less crappy than the one the maintaince man had to take care of on Friday. He had to clean the the outside wall of the library because someone threw what must have been kilo of poop on the outside of the library just next to the staff enterance. Someone has been doing this every few months for the past 3 years or so. Nobody can figure out what sort of poop it is, if it's human, they had best see their doctor.

Try not to burn yourself out at work. You can't do it all.

Besides, the books will always out number you, so rather than attack them all head on, be more like a sniper and take care of the high value targets first. Besides working like a sniper will give you the excuse to hide where people can't find you and ask you to do more work.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I tackle the books in bookcart-sized groups. It works okay. The thing I'm fighting isn't the books, it's myself and the ghost of my predecessor who won't leave me alone.

But I won't give in, and I will win eventually. I always do, it might just take a bit longer than I would hope.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

you need a B complex supplement in the mornings. Cataloging is definatley a calling, I know I adored it, its got complex nuances that just glow for a lot of anal retentive obsessive control freaks. (I am honest) I just found my cataloging bibles last night, and they made me happy to see them. awwwwhhh deys pretties! I then shelved them on the bottom shelf of the bookcase with my dictionaries and other word and writing books. They are happy now too.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

I disliked cataloguing even in uni. I was pretty good at it, but - well, IMHO, there are two basic types of librarians: the cataloguers, and the public services people.
I can do cataloguing because I know it is necessary to get the media to the patrons, but I much rather get in touch with the patrons than worry about where to put a colon with or without a space.
But when I do it, I want to do it right, and preferably right the first time. So when others don't, and I find their crappy cataloguing in the library system, it makes me reaaaally angry.

[(Anonymous)]

its actually easy to access thru the Library of Congress. The manual cataloging is for stuff they havent seen in several centuries. I have that kind of twisted brain that I love to catalog because then I can find it .. some folks think books hould be catagorized by size and color.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

The military library system does have access to some cataloguing data of other library systems. But due to our rather special field of interest, oftentimes the other libraries don't have the books we're wanting to catalog.

Oh, I love the idea of finding my books. It's the idea of cataloguing for weeks and weeks than annoys me...

[agrathea.livejournal.com]

I so appreciate your help! But definitely don't kill yourself over my stuff, taking care of yourself is first priority.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

Reading your story would be a form of taking care of myself, doing something I enjoy! I'm really looking forward to reading this weekend. :-)