The gig is up…

As you may or may not have realized I am not exactly librarian material. I took this job out of necessity and though I have settled in, there are days when story times make me want to pull my hair out and I want to shelve a book about as badly as I want to clean dorm room toilets.  This combined with the fact that I have all but outgrown my little podunk town induced me to venture into a job search.  It started with Florida, but hurricane season put a stop to that.  Then I thought about Colorado, but I don’t like cold weather, so that was a deal-breaker.  Once I finally settled on a prime location, the search was on and after a few weeks I landed an interview with The Firm.  As part of the process my interviewer asked for a person who they could contact at my current job.  Well, BossMan was out, and Andy can not be trusted, so I reached for Conan.

So when Conan came up to me today and asked what he should say when he calls back The Firm, I choked a little.  I’m not going to lie, I felt like a kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar.  I turned a dozen shades of pink and red.  And then I apologized.  I don’t think it came as any surprise that I am ready to leave this place (and by place I mean area as much as job), but it still was hard to to come out and say.

And so, the end is near (hopefully, very near).  I’m not sure what I will do without Conan, and I do worry who he will have to deal with as my replacement (I’ve seen some questionable Children’s librarians in my day).  But I know that it will all be ok, because we are survivors… after all, we do work in public libraries…