Contrary to what SOME people think, I am not sleeping my nine lives away.
Even when I'm curled up in my soft napping nest, part of me is paying attention to what is going on in my library. I know when my youngest fans are having story time. I know when that bunch of very quiet people takes over my community room--they always shut the door so I can't get in to make sure everything is ok, but I've gotten used to that.
Most important of all, though, I know when it's time to eat. In the morning, that director usually makes my breakfast. Some days I am waiting so I can greet her when she comes in the door. If she is late, I give her a little lecture to remind her what her most important job is before I have my first bites of my morning meal. After some nourishment and a drink from my special workroom cup, I am ready to go to her office and help her with whatever her first project is for that day. It usually involves lots of paper and sometime the telephone or the computer and she really spreads out right where I had planned to scrunch down, but I scrunch down anyway and then she HAS to pay attention to me.
When we've made some progress on that first project, I usually stroll toward my circulation desk and wait for my day to begin.
After many power naps, I know it's time for my dinner. It doesn't matter when my library is supposed to close, my dinner hour is pretty much always the same. When it's time, I usually start down the hall toward my dish and one of my staff follows and the next thing I know there's a clean dish and something different to taste. I reallly have my staff well trained! Even when my library is officially closed, one of my staff will come in and make sure I have fresh food. Lately they've been picking things with gravy--I eat the gravy part first, and then eat the rest later. That director says' I'm a 'gravy kind of girl". I don't know what that means. But I DO know when it's time for gravy--and I do know when it's time for a nap. And I do know what time it is now. You guess.
Whispurr.
August 2010
p.s. Did you get a book and a face? Are you my friend? Remember my full name is Whispurr Nap.
