lonely litterbug seeks non-psycho

for earth day yesterday we made these very very cool Reduce Reuse Recycle mobiles (to be shown later) and today, as wednesday is usually craft day, my assistant and i decided we should do another earth day related craft. so i came up with this idea for a litterbug (shown at left). i brought in an egg carton and everything! i made cute little wings for it out of some colorful magazine pages and i gave it button eyes. it's so adorable and environmentally conscious. sadly, hardly any children came into the library today so my little litterbug sat alone. sigh. stupid warm weather enticing the children to be outside.
then i was sitting in the staff room catching up on last week's new yorker (will i ever be up to date?) and our "security guard" came in. she and i have this funny back-and-forth that we do where she tells me that i look so good i must have a man in my life and then i sigh in an overexaggerrated way and say "no, not me!" so we played this game for a while and then she said that she can tell that i will have a man in my life soon. very SOON. a man is on his way. now, this is the second time i've heard a comment like this, as earlier in the week my mother said the same thing. i then told the security guard how i tried to bet my mother $50 that i would in fact NOT be meeting any appropriate non-psychotic men anytime in the near future. my mother of course would not allow me to bet against myself. but the security guard was amused.
so as i was leaving the staff room the security guard reiterated that i definitely would have a man in my life oh-so-soon. so then i said to her, "well maybe i will meet this man before my birthday and then he will have to give me a birthday present." we both had a good chuckle about that.
may 31st ... mark your calendars.