So, what's been happening?

So much has been happening, that's what!  I am seeing the (HUGE) light at the end of the tunnel on my MLS!  December 13, baby!  OK, but back up a bit...

early September--   The school system website crashes, leaving schools with NO webpage!!  It was going to be changed to a new host anyway, but this sped up the process, and I had to attend an emergency training on the new one.  Of course, I had no files from the previous page, so I have to build it 100% from scratch.  It is still a work in progress, however.  

I was also able to attend a FREE, conference. How many good things in life are free? Well, this was! It was a local, regional conference for media specialists, complete with vendors and breakout sessions.  So much to absorb, and I wanted to attend more sessions then I was able.

In early October, I attended my first NCSLMA conference! Very cool indeed.  I met some of my classmates in my degree program (it's 100% online, so this was a great chance to meet), along with a few professors (see previous parenthesis).  Terrific keynotes, and breakout sessions. Again, having to choose which ones to attend was difficult, so I did a bit of session hopping! I got to meet some library rock stars and some book rock stars! But did I get my pictures made with any of them? Of course not.   Since I have taught in the high school area, and now am in an elementary school as a librarian, I did not know Pete the Cat was a rock star! And yes, I met James Dean!Sweet!   I did score a free ARC, and spent plenty of my hard earned cash on books, but who can blame me there?  And now that grad school is almost officially over, I will have time to read again.

In mid October, I suffered through easily handled my first ever book fair!  I was pretty happy with our results, but learned next time not to take all the proceeds in book fair bucks.  Just saying'....   Anyhow, I wrapped that up, and turned around to take my 100 year grandmother on a cruise to celebrate her 100th birthday! I KNOW, not library related, but important! She had a blast, and was treated like a celebrity because they announced her birthday at dinner, sang to her, and generally made a fuss over her! SO many people the next few days came up to her and wished her happy birthday and requested a picture!  (have I mentioned that I love using exclamation points? and parenthesis?) I do!!

Back to reality as November hit.  Tons of grad school work to complete, and at school:  kids, books, lessons, and teachers! Luckily, they're all good! November was a short month, only one of the weeks we had school for a whole five day week. The rest were 'short' weeks, and off THE WHOLE WEEK OF THANKSGIVING!!!!  I have never had that before! Excellent!
Oh, and on a teacher workday in November, we had a media meeting and one of our presenters was one of my blog rockstars- The Candid Librarian!

So, that is a brief recap of how my first few months as a librarian has been.  What I have to do now, is remember all the funnies kids (and adults) have said. That will be another blog.

Til then,

Peace!