Oh my goodness I'm tired.
This morning I woke up early and finished my paper. It was so much
easier to write when my mind wasn't completely exhausted. Or when my
mind hadn't fully woken up so the realization that I was still
exhausted hadn't hit me yet. I also wrote a discussion post, so it
was a productive morning.
This afternoon I went to work. I emailed the head of the
genealogical society to find out what all they would be covering in
their class in September so I would have an idea of what I should
cover in my class about scanning old photographs. Turns out she had
no idea what I was talking about because she didn't have that meeting
on her calendar. She was going to look into it on her end and I will
do the same. I also need to figure out how to edit events on the
calendar because the genealogical meeting is listed as a 'geological'
meeting. So close.
Most of my free time today was spent reading an article about weeding
and writing a bulleted summary of it. I didn't quite finish it. We
each had to pick an article about weeding and then we will get up and
talk about it at the next departmental meeting, which is sometime
next month. Figured I might as well get a start on it.
I learned a lot more about the older librarian today because it was
only us upstairs for the past two days. We talked about her
experience with early computers that required punch cards and
following each generation of computer up to the present. She is way
better than most people I have met in her age range and she credits
that to constantly using the new thing and embracing it, not getting
frustrated and refusing to learn something new. I learned about her
son and saw pictures of his really long beard that he grew out for
years and only recently shaved it. I also learned that he had cancer
twelve years ago and that chemo changed his hair three different
times. One time it grew back straight and white, when it was
originally more like a strawberry blond afro. The most interesting
this I learned was that one day she was talking to her husband's
grandfather and asked where he was from. It ended up being a small,
obscure town in Oklahoma and the librarian asked if he recognized a
certain name. He did and said they owned the next farm over. It
turns out those were her grandparents. Small world.
Tonight after work I went over to my dad's for a Father's Day dinner.
It was meant to be a short thing because I needed to do school stuff
tonight but things are never short with my dad. Not a judgment, just
a fact. I don't see him as often as I should and we start talking
and neither of us are good at breaking it off. Throw in the rest of
the family and time falls away even faster. About the time I was
going to call it my step grandparents stopped by. It was only a
brief visit but it was good to see them. When they left I was going
to go as well but then the Father's Day cards came out so my dad
opened those. It would have been nice to hang out all night but I
really needed to leave.
I ended up not getting home until nine o'clock, which was at least an
hour later than I had planned. When I got home I had a pounding
headache, possibly stress-induced, so I took some Ibuprofen and got
to work. I gave my paper a thorough read-through, changing a few
things before submitting it. I also remembered to emailed the
scanned copies of the forms I had to sign for the conference trip to
my professor.
I still have so much crap to do and it is still overwhelming. At
this point I need to focus on the trip because I still have to figure
out the sessions I want to go to and I have to figure out what I'm
packing. And I have to remember to do the check-in thing twenty-four
hours before my flight so I can get a decent boarding time. I need
to start making lists so I don't forget something
On my break today I started reading a chapter in my book for class.
I think I'm going to try and finish that chapter and then go to bed.
Or maybe just go to bed. I can't really afford to sleep in tomorrow
but for the sake of my sanity I might have to. Originally I was
supposed to have the day off from work tomorrow but I didn't have
enough hours with the conference so I had to add tomorrow and the day
after I get back. Yay.
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