Humility and All That...
Jul. 19th, 2016 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
days_unfoldingI've been considering dropping my volunteer work at the Humane Society because I haven't been enjoying it much. It has more to do with cleaning than interacting with the cats. People who get into cleaning seem to enjoy it, but that's not me. Getting up three hours earlier than I normally do has been rough.
On the other hand, I get the idea that there's some benefit from doing something humble, and there's nothing that's much more humble than scrubbing litter boxes. Some of the cats seem to like me. Today, there were 15 kittens in the kitten room, and it was a trip watching them. (I want to take a cell phone video of them sometime.) (No, I'm not going to adopt a kitten. I feel about kittens the way that I feel about human babies, cute to watch as long as you can hand them back to someone.) So I don't know. I worked there this morning, and I'm tired.
It's funny how jaded I've become about books since I became a librarian. Some people at the college who don't work in the library are upset because we're throwing out BOOKS, and we have a tough time convincing them that these are books that no one would want. I selected the bulk of the books that we're throwing out. Now would be a good time for me to really cull my book collection.
I found some free personal budgeting software online, so that's a win. And now, my Senior Feline Overlord, Harlee, is calling me, and I must obey. (Zara was doing some behavior modification on me earlier. If she snuggles up to me, and I'm not petting her, she bites the cord to my cell phone charger. It works.)
On the other hand, I get the idea that there's some benefit from doing something humble, and there's nothing that's much more humble than scrubbing litter boxes. Some of the cats seem to like me. Today, there were 15 kittens in the kitten room, and it was a trip watching them. (I want to take a cell phone video of them sometime.) (No, I'm not going to adopt a kitten. I feel about kittens the way that I feel about human babies, cute to watch as long as you can hand them back to someone.) So I don't know. I worked there this morning, and I'm tired.
It's funny how jaded I've become about books since I became a librarian. Some people at the college who don't work in the library are upset because we're throwing out BOOKS, and we have a tough time convincing them that these are books that no one would want. I selected the bulk of the books that we're throwing out. Now would be a good time for me to really cull my book collection.
I found some free personal budgeting software online, so that's a win. And now, my Senior Feline Overlord, Harlee, is calling me, and I must obey. (Zara was doing some behavior modification on me earlier. If she snuggles up to me, and I'm not petting her, she bites the cord to my cell phone charger. It works.)
