Tuesday, July 10, 2007

What happened to June?

I can't believe it's July already. Not only July, but 10 days into it!

It always amuses me that folks think that summer is so much quieter and relaxing for me in my job. I guess in some ways it is - I don't get as much email or as many phone calls from people who are having some kind of technological problem that needs to be fixed ASAP. However, summer is the time to catch up on things I couldn't get to during the school year, as well as a time to do the technical work on the systems that I can't really do when the librarians are actually using them!

The end of June and beginning of July is a whirlwind for me, generally speaking. Case in point - since school was out (is it nearly three weeks ago already?) I've archived, updated, indexed, and packed about 57 catalogs. Plus I've done a few other things here and there...weeding, cleaning out files on servers and my own machines, archiving email, that sort of thing. I decided that it was time to leave that for a few minutes and take a look at other things, like this blog!

What IS quiet is this building in the summer if there are no classes going on in the lab or the large conference room. Some of the folks who work here are only 10 or 11 month employees, so there's less staff, and, of course, it's the time of year when people use up their vacation time. (I'm using some of mine next week!) Right now it's so quiet that I think I'll go see if I'm the only one left it in the building...

Before I do that, though, I need to mention that yesterday was Tai Shan's 2nd birthday. Happy birthday, little guy!