This post brought to you by: Jack Daniels bourbon. And the letter Q.

Wow. This week has been extremely stressful. I have been wrestling with HTML all week long. At first, the server wouldn't work. Then, I couldn't access my page to make edits from the Windows side of my computer. I called in sick Wednesday to work on this assignment but I was not able to get very far. I sent multiple e-mails to my teacher along with posting on the discussion board for this class. Nothing that was suggested to me helped. I didn't go to my internship yesterday to work on this assignment. I called into work again today to work on it. Last night was particularly rough. I couldn't get to sleep until 1:00 am and then I woke up at 5:30 am and I couldn't get back to sleep until 7 am. So... great. I finally got help from my wonderful friend Sarah! And everything is fixed! And I turned it in!

I decided that this occasion called for a whiskey. I'm technically not supposed to drink but that really only means I can't drink beer. I went to this really crappy bar down the street from my apartment. It wasn't quite seven so I figured it would be really easy to sit at the bar, drink my whiskey and go home. The bar was packed! The only seat I could find was between these two old regulars. So I just drank my whiskey as fast as I could and now I'm home. Thankfully done with this assignment. I totally deserved this whiskey. And I'm down a pound since Wednesday! Hooray!

Kids are weird. And demanding.

First of all, before I forget: I work for a library that's part of this library network. Basically, there are 90 some libraries that are linked through this system to enable users to borrow books from any of those libraries. It's a really neat system because you can ask for a book to be sent from Library A and pick it up at Library B. And you can drop your books of at any of the libraries and they'll find their way to the home library they belong to. One of my jobs is to send the books on their way as I'm discharging books. I have to write the library number and the abbreviation on a tag and wrap the book up to go. The abbreviations are four letters. One of the libraries is the Milford Public Library. I'll let you guess the abbreviation. Find the answer at the bottom of the post.*

Another thing I've noticed at the library is the number of refugees who relocate to this area. Today a couple came in to ask about using the internet and possibly getting a library card later. They were both refugees from Iraq. I'm not certain if this happened in my hometown or not but it's interesting to be aware of it. I can also notice the big difference between how I talk to these people and how my co-workers talk to them. I make sure to be nice and friendly and understand them as best I can. My co-workers immediately start talking ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND IN A VERY STERN VOICE. They get frustrated by these patrons very easily. Personal differences, I guess.

I stayed home from the Opera House today because this HTML assignment has my panties up in a bunch. I cannot for the life of me figure out why some parts will upload through the Mac side of my computer and some will only upload through the PC side of my computer. I'm taking tomorrow off, too, to clear my head a little bit and focus all on this assignment. I'm pretty sure I have enough sick time to cover it and school is more important. I feel mildly bad but I need to pass all my classes. Here's to figuring this shit out tomorrow. Maybe I will celebrate with a whisky.





*_{the abbreviation is MILF. i think i'm the only one there who finds that funny.}