things i would rather be doing

today is just one of those days...

i would rather be sitting at home, watching british mysteries.  instead, i'm working.  i would rather be snuggled up on the couch with my afgans and my kitty.  instead, i'm working.  i would rather be making potato cheese soup.  instead, i'm working.  i would rather be playing video games, or knitting all those christmas presents, or spending time with my friends, but no..... instead, i'm working.  stupid adult responsibility!  i hates it.  (i think that it bears noting that i have over two weeks of personal time and one week of sick time that i could have taken, but i was the bigger person and didn't call in today.  just saying.)

also, they cleaned the library carpets, and now the break room smells both like pee and like something died back there.  just to add the icing to the "i don't want to be here today" cake.  and how do "clean" carpets smell like that anyway?  i never smelled them at all when they were dirty.  why, god?  and to add insult to injury, the school districts have all decided that the kiddos deserve a one-week thanksgiving break so i have random children from ages 5 to 19 running about the library generally causing trouble and being no good.  

an addendum: i just helped a patron with glaucoma fill out a money order for ten dollars- to send to "feed the hungry".  he was the nicest man, and just wanted to help people overseas.  he couldn't buy the two guinea pigs or anything, but he wanted to make sure somebody had a nice christmas.  (his words.)  that just made my day worth it.  see?  i shouldn't speak so quickly.  there's always a reason you are somewhere.  (even if you don't really want to be there- which i still don't.)

addendum #2:  i have finished two pairs of socks and one cowl in the christmas knitting marathon.  i don't want to jinx myself, but i think i'm doing pretty well.