One of the boys and I went to the library this afternoon. I don’t know what it is about librarians around here that makes them great. We normally go to the Sherman library but we have to go to Athens to renew our card. They’re always so happy to help or see people read. Yesterday after piano we stopped by Sherman and broke the ice. The younger librarian had had two babies since the last time I’d been there.

I knew she’d been pregnant with the first one, but two had me floored. The one I’d seen in the store looked up our account just to see what was going on with it. I told her my last name but she said she remembered. It was a little weird. It felt a little like the WIC ladies where they’d been so nice to you, in this case she’d waived countless late fees and always so eagerly looked up whatever book I was asking about this time.

Another lady had once said, “You know you can look these up online, right?” I actually hadn’t known that. All this time I had probably seemed like this lazy bum who couldn’t think for herself or do something like look up books on an app. The lady in Athens helped me get the app reset up today as well. All I had to do was scan a code, and she didn’t even know you could do that. I learned about the codes from my daughter.

There’s a groundhog living near the upper backyard. I saw him while I was in the living room working on my take-home exam. He runs away if he sees me move, so this time I waited until he was out of sight of the window before getting down on the floor in case he came closer. Before this I’ve never seen him come up onto the deck. Low and behold he stood up at the glass door, looking inside. He looked around then walked away.

I almost volunteered to help over the summer but I refrained. Summers are her crazy time when the moms and grandparents are coming in with their kids. She was getting ready to decorate. When she looked up our account and again erased the fees, she said she’d let my son check out his book if he wanted but I said no, I’d already told him we’d get the card first. I didn’t want to take advantage, I wanted to do things the right way.