I did it! I managed to go an ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR without missing a day of work! (I do not count the school librarian conference I went to in November since it was work-related and I was co-presenting at it. That counts as work!)
It's not that I usually miss much work, but when the children were little, I often had to miss work for their illnesses and doctor's appointments. There was that foot surgery (and subsequent surgical site infection) one year, and the year of the Swine Flu where the child infected me on the first day (and TOLD me she was contagious with it as she talked to me). This year, knowing I would not have allergy season, winter icy/rainy weather, and so forth, I set a goal: I will not get sick with ANYTHING this year.
Little did I know there would be a pandemic.
However, not even COVID stopped me from meeting my goal. Even when working online, I was working all day from home, no breaks.
Another cause for...well, I'm not sure celebration is the correct term...blog-worthiness(?) is that I finally wore my rainboots. Rain boots? What? Let me explain.
We moved to Bangkok in the rainy season. I brought my rain boots, but didn't seem to need them since it usually rained in the middle of the day, the evening, and/or overnight. Nonetheless, the one time I didn't carry them to work last fall (just in case), it stormed as school got out and we had to take a tuk-tuk home no less so I was soaked from head to toes. If I had my boots that day, I would have at least had dry feet! Flash forward to the start of the rainy season for 2020. I did not bring my boots at first. Then three days in a row...yep. Wet feet. Therefore I started bringing them every day again. It would rain BEFORE leaving for school, BEFORE leaving for home, or AFTER I was home. So by this point, I was thinking, "Why did I bring these rain boots? Why?" Finally, the next to last day of school...it rained. While it actually stopped just before I left the library, I wore those boots home!
Now that summer has started, is my work done? Mostly.
We are continuing our remote circulation program all summer since parents and students cannot come to the library on Wednesdays as they have always done in the past. Our Summer Click and Collect is already looking promising! We have loads of requests for books already, and the form just went out for next week's collection! Here's our commercial for the program:
