This picture seems quite appropriate for how I have been feeling all week. I feel bad complaining because RI is dealing with quite the bad bout of the flu and bronchitis. While I haven't been feeling great, it is not as bad as that.

For the most part, I have just been feeling pretty tired. I come home from work, do dinner with Ray, and find myself falling asleep on the couch each night. Today, I had a day off, and I spent most of the day sleeping. On the bright side, I haven't really had too many other symptoms of being sick other than that and a little bit of achiness.

Work has been pretty hectic. Illness has left us a bit short-handed. On top of the fact that we are still down our head of reference services and another person in that department is on vacation, I have been putting in a lot of time on the Reference Desk. That has actually been a good thing (well, not so much the illnesses or being shorthanded) because I enjoy working with the public, which I don't get to do nearly as much as I used to.

We have actually hired a head of reference services, but we are just waiting for the person to work through her period of notice for her previous library. I am really looking forward to having her as a member of our team.