Wii Fit & the CLA

I went into Vancouver today to volunteer for the CLA. Because of my work schedule I'll only be able to attend one session on Friday, but I thought I'd do extra volunteering anyway because it's always a good networking experience right? Big giant WRONG. Boy what a waste of time. The gal who was supervising me was obviously completely uninterested in who I was. She never did find out what my name was. She had a nametag so I know exactly who she is, and I wondered how long she could go without asking such an obvious icebreaker question, or anything else like 'are you a student?' or something about which conference sessions I was planning on going to or anything at all. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And I did try to engage her, I asked how she involved with the CLA, I made a few other polite chit-chat but the bitch was just fridgid, and not in a shy way. I can tell when people are shy (being VERY so myself - I'm happy being left alone most of the time). This was just someone completely uninterested, not in a mean way, just in an uncurious way, she just didn't seem to care. Hopefully this doesn't make me sound narcissistic, it's not that I have to tell a stranger all about me - we could have talked about library science or the conference or... So that blows out any ideas of networking (or at least stimulating library conversation). I'm so taking all the swag I can carry out on Friday. Vendors watch out!!

Coming home I found my mother's day present - a Wii Fit!! I'm so excited - I have a weight problem and I need an excuse to exercise. So we set it up and it kicked my ass. My fit age is very old!! And it fattened my mii after weighing me. My mii is fat!! That yoga tree pose better be a bigger calorie burner than it looks like!! Slalom everybody.

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