{"id":1212,"date":"2010-01-25T23:19:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-01-25T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:19:03","slug":"meme-whats-a-librarians-day-like-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/meme-whats-a-librarians-day-like-one-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme: What’s a Librarian’s Day Like? One Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Library Day in A Life Round 4<\/a>, where a number of librarians document what their day was like. I did the first round on 29 July 2008, Meme: What’s a Librarian’s Day Like?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve spent last week trying to find time to complete a post called “Whatever Happened to ….Me?”, where I reflect on why things have gone so quiet on this blog.<\/p>\n

The process reminded me of the blog post that I half wrote for Library Day in a Life Round 3<\/a> on 28 July 2009 – but didn’t publish because it seemed so banal. It was the day I resigned from my job at Murdoch University – and had a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and being a mum …dropping between writing\/speaking commitments, motherly duties, meetings at the university, preparing for my new job, with some chicken husbandry thrown in.<\/p>\n

Makes a good backdrop if I ever finish the other blog post that I have in the pipeline…<\/p>\n

Here’s what I wrote then:<\/p>\n

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28 July 2009<\/p>\n

Again, I’m documenting an atypical day for librarydayinthelife (link)<\/p>\n

Today I resigned from my job as Emerging Technology Specialist at Murdoch University.<\/p>\n

It went something like this…<\/p>\n

6:30am<\/strong> – Sound of duck quacking wakes me. Switch off iPhone alarm.<\/p>\n

Via comments on Twitter and Friendfeed, discover that presentation in Washington DC that included a video clip of me (and based around my post about why learning about emerging technology is part of every librarian’s job) went well – and the audience actually liked it.<\/p>\n

Via email discover that the final report of the Open Library Project – that I interned on at the University of Kansas in April – has finally been released.<\/p>\n

7:00am<\/strong> – Check on chickens that we bought yesterday. They are still alive and happy in their enclosure in the garden.<\/p>\n

Wake Mr6 gently, as he was off school all last week and hope that he is well enough to go in today. He is.<\/p>\n

7:30am<\/strong> – Eat breakfast with children – “I don’t *care* if your uniform is not on and you have not packed your lunch – it’s breakfast time, you can do that afterward”.<\/p>\n

8:00am<\/strong> Husband and boys leave.<\/p>\n

8:15am<\/strong> Check work email. Respond to an email enquiry about accommodation for upcoming speaking trip to Darwin in October. Promise to send through requested bio and photo tomorrow – when I will be able to mention my new job<\/p>\n

8:35am<\/strong> Phone Shire of Peppermint Grove to make sure I have right forms for accepting job.<\/p>\n

8:49am<\/strong> Boss emails to say can’t meet at 11am, can we make it 11:30 – erk….will have to squeeze appointments because I want to tell her in person that I am resigning, not by phone or email…<\/p>\n

8:55am<\/strong> Feed cat. Phone dentist about toothache. He suggests antibiotics and we book appointment for next week.<\/p>\n

8:59am<\/strong> Discover cat has poo-ed in garage right behind my car. Curse cat while cleaning up mess.<\/p>\n

9:00am<\/strong> Beautician for fortnightly de-forestration of my face. Curse my Mediterranean genes once\u00a0 again.<\/p>\n

9:30am<\/strong> Pop in to collect another employment form from home. Notice new egg in chicken cage.<\/p>\n

10:00am<\/strong> Drop off forms at Shire of Peppermint Grove. Discover that superannuation fund has both a “Client number” and a “Member number”, and that I have only given one and need both.<\/p>\n

11:00am<\/strong> Get to work. Feel nervous. Drop in on co-worker to let her know unofficially that I am resigning. She usually works in our joint-use academic\/public library so understands my yearning to be back in public libraries, but we will both be sad to end our working relationship.<\/p>\n

11:30am<\/strong> Break news to Library Director, who only started last Monday. “I’m going to be Special Services Librarian and the Grove Library in Peppermint Grove”. They are building an amazing new library with fantastic environmentally sustainable design features and I will get to help design the new service there”. “Yes, it is permanent and just two days, so I can write my thesis and help Mr11 with his transition to High School, which may be tough for him”. Actually wasn’t quite so succinct and eloquent, but was what I meant…<\/p>\n

12:00pm<\/strong> To Family Doctor for Pre-Employment Medical. Takes over an hour, but at least now I have antibiotics for my toothache and know that my heart feels like it is a normal size…<\/p>\n

1:30pm<\/strong> Bad Mother does not have time to pack lunchbox for boys after school so buys each a chocolate muffin as she picks up her own lunch at the bakery.<\/p>\n

2pm<\/strong> Drop in at house to dump heavy backpack. Find two crows jumping on the chicken’s cage and taunting the poor birds. Growl at them and threaten to throw things.<\/p>\n

2:30pm<\/strong> Appointment back at work with Head of IT who pays half my salary. Tell him I am leaving and show him the website for\u00a0 the Grove library.<\/p>\n

2:50pm<\/strong> Walking out of head of IT’s office when husband phones. He has Mr6’s bad cold and keeps going to sleep whenever he sits down. Shall he pick up the kids on the way home? Tell him to go straight home.<\/p>\n

3:00pm<\/strong> With both bosses now informed in person, email official pre-written\u00a0 resignation letter via my iPhone from University carpark.<\/p>\n

3:20pm<\/strong> Pick up Mr6. Accept Barbie-themed birthday party invitation.<\/p>\n

3:30pm<\/strong> Pick up Mr11<\/p>\n

3:35pm<\/strong> In car, get Mr11 to plan what homework he will do when, while he changes his clothes and eats muffin without removing seatbelt.<\/p>\n

4:00pm<\/strong> Drop Mr11 at drama lesson<\/p>\n

4:15pm<\/strong> Unpack Mr6’s bag and discover four or five notices that need either to be replied to or put into family calendar – and double checked against clashes with other events.<\/p>\n

4:30pm<\/strong> Start making dinner<\/p>\n

4:50pm<\/strong> Drive to pick up Mr11 from drama lesson<\/p>\n

5:20pm<\/strong> Continue making dinner while husband sleeps feverishly on couch, Mr6 plays Lego Star Wars on the Wii and Mr11 does homework with help from me every so often.<\/p>\n

5:45pm<\/strong> Dinner on table.<\/p>\n

6:15 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’m not sure what I did in the evening. I would bet that it was Twittering, Blogging and some professional reading and writing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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