July 30, 2015

I woke up way earlier than I would have liked today and somehow managed to avoid taking a nap. I spent my early morning babysitting dogs and watching Arrow. I continued watching Arrow throughout the rest of the stay. In fact I'm still watching it now. Apparently the first season was incredibly long. I'm on episode sixteen and there are twenty-three episodes in the season. Maybe I'm just used to British shows but twenty-three seems like a long season. Maybe it does that thing where they do the first part of the season, take a big break, and then do the second half. Who Knows. I don't care More episodes for me.

I wrote responses to the two people who posted critiques to my group website. And not too long after a third person posted. There were only supposed to be two but it looks like there was a breakdown in communication in one of the groups and two people posted for them. The third post was also very extensive. Hooray. Now I've got to come up with another response and makes some changes to the website. Possibly. Haven't decided yet.

I worked on my budget for awhile. Based on my initial estimates, I only have $47,250 to get rid of. Tomorrow I'm going to spend more time with the non-key staff and see how many of them I can switch to part-time. For each one that goes to part-time I'll save half their salary along with $7,500 on benefits. I've decided for this project to take on the role of a transitional director, the one they bring in to make a bunch of cuts and be the bad guy before bringing in a new director. I'm not there to be loved, just to cut $300,000 and set the library on a path of change and innovation. I think I can do it.

On top of all the other things I kind of did today, I also did laundry. So not a bad day. Tomorrow I'm going to do website stuff and budget stuff. I'm also going to pot my avocado seed. I can't remember when I started it but it has been sitting in a bag by a window, wrapped in a wet paper towel for awhile now. The stalk is around six inches tall now and little tiny leaves are starting to come out of the top. Seems like a good time to move it to a pot. Previously I have made it to the point of having several full-size leaves but I was afraid to trim them and the tree eventually died. My goal is to make it a little bit farther this time.