Card from the Kalgirls

Card from the Kalgirls
Originally uploaded by sputty.

I just had two days at the remote site where I used to work. The girls there gave me this card

Daphne

Daphne - my Mum's strange cat loves to eat plants......

Got a new job!!

It's a great feeling - when you think you've got it but don't want to get your hopes up by thinking too much about it..
However, last Friday I got a call from my new boss-to-be, and she asked me if I'd like to come and work with them.....I was smiling all weekend. I now have only about two weeks left at the current job.

And then I thought - my current job must have been getting me down quite a lot...don't get me wrong - it's a great job - academic librarians do a lot of interesting stuff. And I've learnt a lot since I've been back at the mother ship after a spending 4 years at our "Red Dwarf" library on the edge of the desert. (We used to call ourselves "the ferals"...)

However, I think to be happy, you should feel valued by the people that you provide the service for - and I'm not getting that. My peers - the other Librarians here, see their own jobs as important, and I'm quite in awe of the total knowledge bank of our group - but somehow their enthusiasm hasn't rubbed off on me.

So now - it's onward and sideways - a new direction for me and hopefully new challenges.

Procrastination will always catch up with you

You know that feeling when you've been neglecting your studies, work's getting on top of you and then you bump into the lecturer getting lunch....Caught between a rock and a hard place - it's rude not to acknowledge him - but if he recognises you he'll remember that you haven't been coming to class, haven't been posting on the unit's bulletin board, and haven’t submitted the assignment.And all he wants to do is get some lunch in peace……………….

Well that happened yesterday....I sent him an email (crawling, beggin, etc) and now I'm starting a regime of reading two articles per night.

I'll have to put a cloth over the TV, like a budgie......

I'm not sure if I'm very busy - or just very disorganised....
I think these posts are going to turn into a "what I did on my weekend"....

A foodie weekend!
Went to dinner at my siste's place Saturday - prawns and gremolata with baked vegetables - yum!
She'd made a baked orange and date custard for dessert, which was extremely yumalicious, too!! So the creme caramels I'd picked up from Barretts bakery she didn't want, and I took them home for a treat for myself on Sunday......I think I've discovered another addiction!

I finally attacked my weed infested front garden so that I can plant the honey gem grivillea and geraldton wax plants that I bought with my birthday garden voucher. I hate onion weed!!!

My first proper blog.

I'm hoping that this will encourage me to write more, and "weller".

Not much to say today as I'm off to Book Club tonight and have to pick up some comestibles.
I haven't read the book - it's The Last Family in England but I'll get a copy of the review and try to make some intelligent comments in the discussion. My Bookclub members are very forgiving....
I used to to that a lot at school too - never read the set novel, but got hold of the Brodies Notes so that I was able to answer the questions...(bad student!!)