Day 4 - March 7, 2007

WEDNESDAY - Today is my last weekday of work in the Children's Room for this week. I set my hours of internship at 4-6 hours every Saturday and some Sundays, 4 hours each day on Mondays to Wednesdays and on every other Thursdays. I am hoping that if all goes well, I could be done with my 150 hours by the Sunday of National Library Week next month. If for some reason I have to skip out on some days, then perhaps I will have to work until the end of April.

I got to the library on time today. I think I am getting the hang of it now...rushing out of the law firm, running up and down stairs at the Union Station and weaving through traffic in my city and then parking on the street by the library. I found that if I just find a spot on the street (metered parking) I only need to pay 60 cents for 1 hour and not have to move the car at all. I only have to worry about the meters until 6pm so I only need to pay for one hour. I know, I'm suppose to worry about every cent but I am more lazy than tight fisted. By lazy, I mean after a full day at work I am tired and I hate walking the few blocks to the parking structure and perhaps another block or two to walk back to the library when I park on the street. Okay!!! Enough of this obsession with the parking:o)

Tonight, other than the usual tasks, I braved out a couple of reference questions. Both Arpine and Daisy (the other part-time librarian) were out in the stacks helping patrons and a parent was asking for beginner chapter books and I took them to the area where they were shelved. Since the question was general enough and they did not need a partcular title, I left them to browse through the collection. What made my night was a question from a girl I helped find books about records. I pointed her out to the section where we kept the Guinness Book of World Records but she also needed information about "fat-free" foods. At that point my courage deserted me and so I passed her on to one of the librarians. In the end I was the one who was able to find information for her online. It turned out that it was not "fat-free" that she was looking for but information on FAD-free nutrition. I asked her if it was for a paper and she said that she needed the information for a poster-making contest she's joining and that she want ideas for her poster. I found a site about "March Is 'Fad Free' National Nutrition Month" and from there we were able to get some ideas. It was a win-win situation, she got her information, I learned about March being a Fad-Free Nutrition month...not that I need pointers about eating healthy because I am the least bit health conscious...so un-Hollywood of me, haha!... But hey, if nothing else, people do learn something new everyday...I did!