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Yeah. The way the stuff kicked in was as trippy as hell.

 

Was lying there one moment (felt like I was asleep) and woke up suddenly feeling like I was dreaming. Then I got worried because reality seeming like a dream made me think everything could be like it is in the Matrix.

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Today was a very bad day. My macaroni and tomato juice smelled like fish, and I couldn't get my hair clean, and I'm supposed to be doing something but I can't remember what, and my sneakers won't break in, and my computer's slow, and I'm about to kill myself because everything's so messed up! SO messed up! On top of that, I found myself bitching about it in an internet forum instead of whining to my near family and annoying THEM like I should.

 

On the brighter side, I'm going to perform brain surgery on myself.

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I had a god-awful day today, too. Actually, it was tolerable until I showed up for my shift at work at 1...

 

I work part-time as a page (book reshelver) at the local library. We had a serious backlog problem for about a month...books stacking up everywhere. But we all managed to chip in and, finally, beat it just in time for the Thanksgiving holidays. Things've been a little stacked up since then, but we're at least keeping on top of it.

 

But today when I come into work, there's apparently been a change in policies. First, we are not-so-nicely reminded that we pages are supposed to be shelf reading, too. (For those who many not know..."shelf reading" is going along the shelves and making sure that each book is in its proper place. It's long and tedious and I hate it.) Then we're informed that until and unless our boss says so, we've got to shelf read and/or straighten 15 - 30 minutes for every cart of books we put away.

 

That's not the worst of it; we could all handle that. The problem is, we've been assigned new shelf reading areas...and we're supposed to shelve books only in those areas. Two areas per floor (upstairs is where adult stuff is kept; downstairs is young adult/juvenile) per person. And since each person can't be there every day and on both floors at once...hello, backlog. Again.

 

They've also introduced a new system of keeping track of us--instead of just writing down how many carts and where we shelved them, we're now supposed to write down everything we do on our shifts, including when we go on break, come back from break, clean up and close, where and what we shelf read, where and what we shelve...everything.

 

And if "significant" progress hasn't been made by the 18th of December, then we all have to be at the library at closing on the 19th, and from 6 - 9 we'll shelf read. And it's mandatory, as in "I don't care if you just hacked up a lung, you have to be here."

 

All this is on top of a cold, concert rehearsals, and the mandatory shelf reading session which may or may not take place the day after my last holiday concert. If my throat didn't hurt so much, I'd scream.

 

Oh, and I'm getting paid only $5.15 an hour for this job. I'm officially not getting paid enough for this.

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