I'm a Baaaaad librarian

So today i had a Celebrate Chinese New Year program that was extra celebratory. We had a fairly civilized storytime, but then (o stupid me) I ended with a craft involving glitter. Several kinds of glitter, in almost unlimited quantities. The kids painted a chinese character (love, prosperity, etc) onto stiff paper with watery glue, then shook glitter over the picture on top of a pan to make a glitter character.

This all went very well until we had a shortage of pans. What, no pan? No problem! This here carpet will do just dandy, thanks. So that's why this afternoon the Head of Children's Services (that's me) was on my hands and knees with a dustbuster that I had to bring from home, vacuuming up glitter because it was being tracked all over the city complex. Yep, that's why I get paid the big bucks. But secretly, it was worth it to see the look on the city clerks' faces when they came in for their meeting immediately after our program, and had to dodge mountains of leftover glitter and gluey children. HA!