Good grief, it's December. What happened to November? Time really
does move faster the older you get. It's all relative.
Despite being tired as crap for most of the night last night, as soon
as my head hit the pillow I was wide awake. I hate when that
happens. And I refused to get up and read or do whatever so I just
laid there and eventually fell asleep, after a really long time.
That made this morning a little rough but I think most of that was
just being back at work for the first time in a week.
At some point over break, probably when all the ice came through, the
power went out at school. I know this because a breaker popped and
two rows of computers wouldn't turn on. I don't have any control
over the breakers so I went up to tell one of the office ladies. And
then again a few minutes before my first class came to the lab. As
the class walked in, with twenty-five kids and only twelve working
computers, I stepped out to go to the office again right as the
office lady came by to go look for the breaker. She couldn't find
the right one (the custodian usually does it but he is still out from
his knee surgery) but she eventually found the substitute custodian
and he was able to find the right breaker and got everything up and
running.
The rest of the day was fairly typical. When I didn't have classes
in the lab I worked on my website a little bit. I wasn't happy with
the plain headings so I looked and found a CSS font that looked good,
copied the code into my page, and tweaked it to make it look good on
my page.
I also had time to work on my collection assessment assignment. I
finally pulled the trigger on a library and went with one that had a
fairly well developed collection development policy. At first I
wanted one with a small policy because I figured half of my
recommendations could be improving the policy. But then I decided it
might be easier to find discrepancies in the policy and the
collection itself. Also, the library I found made their policy in
2012, so one suggestion could be more frequent updates to the policy.
Today I went through the library's databases, looking for information
that was duplicated in multiple databases. The biggest was probably
regarding newspapers. Not only were a lot of them duplicated across
databases, but the collection development policy said they have
between 30 and 40 print subscriptions (three years ago at least). So
cutting back on the databases and/or the print subscriptions will
definitely be a recommendation. I'm making progress. Which is good
because I've got to come up with a five to six page paper by Sunday,
and that is getting closer by the day.
The Yogscast charity streams started today and will continue
throughout the month of December. I watched it off and on throughout
the day, including the end of it tonight when Lewis, Duncan, and Sjin
were playing Open Train Tycoon Deluxe
and getting drunk. I think they were drinking before but then they
decided to take another shot at every $1000 leading up to their daily
goal of $100,000. They hit the goal, which is incredible, but they
also got drunk. At one point the title of the stream was something
like “Three pissed idiots playing games”. It was entertaining.
Tonight I didn't work on my
collection assessment but I did write two discussion posts, so things
were done. More things probably should have been done but they
weren't so no point in dwelling on it now. I can regret it this
weekend when I'm up late trying to bullshit my way to the word-count
of my paper.
Soon I will be going to bed. And
hopefully I will fall asleep within a reasonable time of getting into
bed. That would be nice.
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