Still Catching Up with March

March was cruising along just fine and then the Ides of March got me and the rest of the month ended in a whirlwind of me playing catch up. Geez.
First, I had to request the release of one of my part-time staff. I hate being the big meaney and the thing I enjoy least about managing is discipline. I want everyone to be a strong link in the chain and we sail along merrily in a happy boat. But the real job of management whether I like it or not is making suring that behaviors that affect the ship are monitored and corrected and if not corrected then they are removed from the boat. I can't state enough times how much I dislike displining and/or requesting the release of an employee so that event threw me into a tailspin emotionall. Our work shedules were impacted even further with this event. Earlier in the month a staff was promoted to a postion in another library--happy events are easier to bare than unhappy ones. But nevertheless we were down two positions totaling 40 hours each week. All said, for a variety of reasons, I had a hole of about 100 staff hours per week. Needless to say, I was very tired and had a hard time scheduling time off to see my brother Dave and his family who were out visiting.
On Friday, I had 3rd Friday Art Reception featuring Bane. Bane is a shock artist--I had to look that one up. Essentially shock art is designed to be incongrous so that it shocks you into thinking. Bane uses recycled materials, cardboard and styrofoam as is canvas, primary colors and an alien motif to create the shock. He also has a number of scultures, totems and masks as well. Visually it is very interesting, it really livened up the meeting room.
But I had a hard time getting his art to stay up without falling down. I try to do as little harm as possible to the back of the art if there are no hangers and I perfer what I am doing to be reversible if possible. My tools for art that has no hangers are my glue gun, hemp string, and tape.

I had hoped to get the artwork up before Town Council but because it kept falling down I had to repeat the process again and again each time getting more agressive with adding the hangers hoping that Bane wouldn't take offense. I wasn't but about a quarter finished when the Town Council arrived early for a land use meeting, so I was busy getting the pieces up. One of the Town Council Members asked if I was always the busy bee buzzing around from one place to another. Sadly I affirmed his observation, and he said that I needed to change my name to Busy Bee.
In the end I got everything up. Once again I was pleased with the result.
It seems that I am having trouble uploading photos and have a lot of stuff to get done yet. So I will come back later and post the photos of Bane's Art Reception.