Fantasies and the Library

[toliver]

Before when I was overworked my fantasy was to go to a very (am resisting the impulse to write v. which is what I've been doing lately) civilized coffeehouse and drink coffee while composing the great American novel. Now my fantasy is to inherit millions (from someone I never knew), move to Europe (the country doesn't seem to matter) and sit in an outdoor cafe sipping wine, screw the writing. Try as I might, the fantasy stops with me getting pleasantly sloshed while The World walks by. My brain just freezes right there. It's a nice red by the way.

New plan for this week: Go to the health food store and buy "sides" because I will continue to be too tired to cook for the next three weeks at least. We open the library in less than two weeks. It looks like the public and staff furniture and the end caps to the stacks (not to mention a lot of the stacks themselves) won't make it on time and it will be touch and go about the public computers too. I have tagged a WW II metal desk for myself because it is every man and woman for themselves as far as furnishing your area goes. I am using a much coveted (I am not kidding, I've had three people try to snag it from me) small end table for a computer desk now and a low stool I stole from the children's department but it isn't a good long term solution. I've got the copier on a - I don't really know what it is and I've got a few old tables coming for the public. It is going to look like a rummage sale.

Comments

[writerlibrarian]

And of course they won't push the opening because why would they?

Man, that's not good PR. Really. I hope the furnitures at least makes it for the opening.

Hold tight to the salvage pieces you have not, in my experience, when management is that bad, it takes weeks before you get what you need.

Sending good, calming vibes to you.

[toliver]

Thanks. No, the furniture isn't going to be there, for certain. We all kept telling the director that he wasn't giving it enough time but he wouldn't listen. To be fair, it wasn't entirely his fault. We had to go through the city and they canceled our furniture and computer orders because the forms weren't filled out correctly and did not tell us. He did not follow up on them until too late.

I will hold on to them. The orders have changed so many times that I am not certain that I will ever get a desk or chair.