During this week, I've gotten little accomplished in the way of actually BEING a librarian up until today. Staff development was good, but not entirely conducive to working in your space more than a little at a time (unless you stayed after school, which for me is not an option because I have a small child who I want to spend as much time as possible with after school.) I was able to check out a bunch of equipment to teachers, assist some with technology setup, answer questions (and get some answered) about the library and things within it, and generally had a nice day...with ONE exception...
While I was at lunch I got an email (on my Droid) from a teacher who said that the laminator was jammed because she'd failed to notice the lamination film had run out and had proceeded to put something through it. I emailed her back and told her I'd take a look when I got back, and then proceeded to enjoy my bar-be-que. :)
What I thought would be a fairly easy fix ended up taking 2 hours and the assistance of 4 additional friends to fix. Not only did the paper have to become un-jammed, but I also had to learn how to install the new rolls of laminator film onto the machine (previously the only person who knew how to do this was the former librarian.) I had intended on using my time this afternoon to decorate the library in the "Hero" theme that we have at school this year but due to the time spent on laminator maintenance I will be returning to school tomorrow morning (yes, Saturday.) I have a burn on each of my thumbs from accidentally bumping the heated rollers on the machine. And while it wasn't my IDEAL way of learning how to reload the laminator, I DID learn a lesson from it (a kinda painful one.)
Many many thanks to my friends Holly, Jennifer, Marisol and Christy for your assistance today. I know you had better things to do than do some on-the-fly laminator maintenance but I sure did enjoy the laughs that we had (you helped me keep my sanity today!)
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