It's Better When We Can Breathe

It was a strange Monday at the Branch, maybe because so many people are doing their holiday shopping. But those shoppers seem to have attacked the malls early, because the people who didn't visit the library in the morning did come during the afternoon. Since the crowds weren't spread out during the course of the day, as they usually are on a Monday, this meant that the lines were so long that we weren't able to breathe between patrons. It was a straight rush....reference and circ and circ and reference.....constant lines filled with people who had already spent so much time standing on line at the stores. There was no patience, no tolerance for a staff member taking a deep breath, or grabbing a quick seat....I'm exhausted.

But we survived. It's almost five o'clock and it's dark outside. Almost time to go home.