Yesterday sucked. It just goes to show that you should never look at your life and say, "Wow! Things are going great!".  The universe will immediately locate the nearest cricket bat of doom and womp you upside the head.

Here's a list of what happened yesterday:

1. Two of my employees put in their two week notices. I should have expected the second after the first, as they have been commuting together.

2. The library that got dropkicked into my schedule was not told that they had been moved, so there was much panicking when I went to map their library. They were greatful I was giving them more info than HQ, but it still dragged me into poltics, afterwhich I discovered that large parts of the order of libraries they gave me might be revised. Oy!

3. Upon returning to my staff at the end of the day, I was confronted by the head librarian, who informed me she had a box of books in her office that we had tagged that she was going to send to HQ to ask for a refund. It turned out to be 59 books (a small number when you consider we have tagged around 70,000 in their library alone), but it is frustrating because many of them had broken spines that are not noticable when you are only checking the front and back of each book. (Each of my employees only spends about 20-24 seconds on each item. Not a lot of time to check for damages)

4. I then also realized I left my wallet at home, and my gas tank was almost empty. I had to rush over to Wachovia and play twenty questions so that they would issue me $20 with no ID.

Still, overall we are getting along well with the library staffs we are working with, and apparently my boss has been getting some great reviews of my work from various uppity-ups in the county system.  I also should be able to hire new staff more easily, as a bunch of part time library staff just got laid off due to budget cuts.  I'll just cross my fingers and hope there aren't too many more days like this one.