Story Telling Day

The idea for our StoryTelling Event came a whole year ago when one of my colleagues was doing an assignment for a class she was taking. She got the idea and did some research. Then our Operations Manager suggested we apply for a Cultural Enrichment Grant and actually bring some storytellers to campus for a day to promote the Library.

We pulled the material together and submitted it. Though we ended up sharing the grant with the Chaplain's Office (they submitted a grant to bring a storyteller to chapel), we were excited about all the activities involved. First there would be a Bible storyteller in chapel followed by lunch with the same. Then in the afternoon, we brought in a local storyteller who had recently won an award. He presented a workshop in the afternoon and told us stories in the evening.

Meanwhile, we held an Open House for our Curriculum Center and hosted a Scholastic Book Fair to benefit our juvenile literature collection. I had been really looking forward to it. But when I woke up, my tooth was aching and i knew it was going to interfere.

I weighed my options. I could suffer through the day on pain killers and see the dentist tomorrow. I looked at my calendar. Nope. Important meetings tomorrow. I could take my chances with Emergency Care in the morning and hope to catch at least some of the events - unlikely that I would get out in time for many of the events, but at least I was not committed to any specific times for working at the events (how did that happen!).

I took my chances. Sure enough, even though I arrived at 8:30 am, there were 6 people ahead of me, and I sat all morning. Fortunately, I brought reading that I needed to do, so the time went by fast. Usually if they don't call you by quarter of noon, you are asked to come back in the afternoon. At ten of, I was called back. Whew!

After I was comfortably seated and bibbed, the dentist announced that he would not have time to look at me. The hygienist felt badly for me, so she went in search of someone who could at least take a look. What a sweetheart! She found someone. At first they thought perhaps just a prescription would do it, but the senior advisor said they had to take the tooth apart and medicate from inside. Phooey.

I have to say that after they finished, my tooth hurt just as much if not more than before, but I had a prescription and the assurance that they had not seen any sign of infection, but had given me strong internal antibiotics in case. We will see. Meanwhile, take 2 Tylenol and don't come back until next week when your real appointment is scheduled! Unless of course things get worse.

I managed to return in time for my Library Committee meeting, and stayed to catch the evening story telling event which was quite engaging. All in all, we had lots of visitors and did marvelously well with the book fair. Still, I would have liked to have been more involved.