It's been awhile...

This school year has been a humdinger; we introduced (and by we, I mean mostly me) Accelerated Reader, which has had the net result of adding at least 3 more jobs for me to do in the time that I have, requiring me to move my lunch back by an hour and a half, and severely limiting my bathroom breaks (which wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't pregnant). To quote Calvin, "the days are just packed." Which is usually better than the alternative; I'd much rather have a busy day that passes quickly than one that drags slowly by.

But with all this stuff, I haven't had as much time as I'd like to do things, such as promoting the new class sets we received when we ordered new textbooks last year. I've tried, but honestly, not much has happened with them. So imagine my delight when I receive an email from a high school English teacher, saying that she's going to be starting The Great Gatsby with her class next week, and can she check out 25 copies.

Until I look in the catalog and see that we have only 1 copy of The Great Gatsby. That's right, it is not one of the 67 titles we have a class set of. This teacher did not in any way indicate to me, when the class sets were being selected last year, that she could use a set of The Great Gatsby for her class. No other school in The District has a class set of it, either, which means we can't beg to borrow one of theirs.

And now I feel useless.