ARE there any new ice cream toppings?

One of the most interesting things I have found out about being a librarian is that you really do have to know a little bit about a lot of things. Astronomy, religion, mysteries, cars, financial matters. People come up to ask me about different things every day. Some times people need something really specific; a book about hunger in Southern Africa or a sound recording of a popular fantasy book. These are the easy questions. Either I can find what they are looking for in our collection or I can’t but I can get it for them through Inter Library Loan.
It’s the questions like “Are there any new ice cream toppings?” that really throw me for a loop. Yes, this was a real question I got today. Really, where am I even going to start looking for that kind of thing?
Well, I started by asking if there was any particular ice cream topping she needed to know about. Nope, just wanted to know if there was anything new out there.
Really? What am I supposed to do in this situation?
I referred her to grocery stores and really that’s about all I CAN do.


In other news, J and I are leaving today for our trip to Duluth. YEAH a vacation!
We're leaving here at 6 tonight and driving straight up there. All seven and a half hours of it. Hopefully we'll get there before its too late (like before 3am!).
Then tomorrow we're getting up early and driving to Canada! YEAH Canada!
I'm sure there will be plenty to write about when we get home and plenty of pictures from my new camera (remind me to tell you about that too!)

Here we go......yet again

Is it a full moon this week?

No?

Are you sure?

It really seems like it is.

It seems as though one thing after another just keeps going wrong. From me getting sick, to the apartment complex "forgetting" (again) to clean our carpets, to scheduling craziness at work. It just seems like things aren't going Micki's way.

Well they better get back on track here pretty soon.

While watching the Olympics with J and our friend Drew the night before last I noticed I had a little scratchy throat thing going on. So, I went to bed early hoping to head off any impending cold. But no. When I woke up in the morning it was full on sore throat, stuffy nose, red eyed hell.

Then I had to go to work.

I'll be starting school this weekend and I have yet to even start my homework. Well...scratch that..I've printed off articles and checked out magazines to do my homework. But I haven't put pen to paper on anything. Is this how it's going to be all semester? Probably.

At least my week has not been as bad as this young woman's,

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0821081books1.html

Really, Grafton Wisconsin Public Library?

I hope that I look that happy if I ever have to have a mug shot.

My only saving grace today are these wonderful young boys that come into the library pretty regularly. Brothers, they have to be between 5 and 7. But they have the cutest LOW baritone voices. Like they're 60 year old men. Someday I'll record their voices for posterity.

In knitting land:

I am desperately needing a new knitting project. A sweater. I need yarn though.

How to get yarn? hmm....maybe robbing a bank. Or begging J until he's so totally sick of me :)

If I had yarn though there would be the problem of actually picking out a pattern. I want something with a little pizzaz. Hopefully the fall edition of www.knitty.com will come out and have a wonderful pattern. Can I wait that long?