is there an official term for my condition?

being a non cook, i sometimes struggle to justify my favourite tv show ever being the iron chef. despite it ending in the early 2000s and having to watch repeat food battles fought out in kitchen stadium, sometimes a decade ago, chairman kaga and his team of cullinary maestros never fail to entertain me.  [our library has a copy of the iron chef 'official book' and this has [...]

the spatula forum

because i really do care about semantics i needed to be certain about what the world calls the kitchen utensil pictured above [thought not heart shaped ones in particular, i just liked the picture].
being the very learned reference librarian that i aspire to be one day, i went onto google images and did a couple of searches [...]

eels

it was just sheer coincidence when, after a reading hiatus of a month or two, the first book i picked up was gregory day’s the patron saint of eels. set in a small town in coastal victoria,  it begins on a day after the rains had stopped, the rivers and dams are overflowing, and masses of [...]

the last desk shift before christmas

no this isn’t going to turn into some dodgy christmas poem take-off.  i actually was rostered to do the last circ desk shift before christmas - my first one using the new library computer system that i helped implement and that brought me great pain – see post below to see just how much. 
so we cranked [...]

1 day v 1 hour

im not going to dwell too much on this because it makes my head hurt – but the difference between an overdue library fine of 20 cents  a day and 20 cents AN HOUR is more than a monetary balance.  it is the difference between a happy lms go live, and patrons, library staff and the library systems chick being [...]

freshly baked usb

this usb fortune cookie also comes in green pink and blue, which I am a bit unsure about. you can also get pizzas and donuts. on my nice to have but not essential gadget list for this week.

dont diss my poncho

The uk daily mail recently published a survey of top ten fashion winners and disasters according to a survey of shoppers.
I own one of the “winners” (stilletos) . However I own four of the “disasters” (poncho – several of these; hooded sweatshirt – several; leggings – several; puffball skirt) and want to own a fifth “disaster” (velour tracksuit).
however [...]

but wii saved the day

because our library seems to attract a large delinquent youth population they have started this really excellent youth lounge program which, on one night per week, brings the kids together with a youth social worker, pizza, and foosball and internet games. they saunter into the library and pretend that they don’t want to be there, but [...]

you write well but you are a complete moron

we had an author visit the library and give a talk about his fairly recent and topical book. but rather than talk about his book he spent a good hour talking about himself. this was after rocking up 15 min late because he had some other more important media engagement. 
a colleage said that a friend of [...]

on training

over the past few weeks i’ve been training our library staff on how to use the new (apparently whizz bang)library management system that we are about to go live with on Friday. the thing is, though, I have never actually used this system for real myself. but in theory i know all about it.
 i’ve learnt [...]