June 20, 2016

 This morning I woke up and read a chapter in my book for class. I think I've still got about fifty pages to read. I plan to knock out another chapter before I go to bed tonight. Hopefully.

I went to work at noon today and it was a pretty uneventful day. The first four hours of my shift were spent looking up and adding more classic movies to my list for the DVD display. Originally I was going to set it up today but the librarian who is currently in charge of the display thought it would make more sense to set it up when I got back from the conference because I wouldn't be around to restock it over the next week. In the off chance that we had a surge of people interested in classic movies.

They're collecting data on teens and tweens this week which means every time someone does a walkthrough they have to note all the teens and tweens they see, where they see them, and what they're doing. The library still wants to create a better teen space and the idea is to figure out how they're using the library now so we know what should go into the teen space. The form is a little clunky and a big waste of paper, and I think everyone agrees on both of those things, but hopefully something useful will come out of it.

When I got back from my early bird dinner I spent a good chunk of my evening picking out more conference sessions. By the end of the night I was able to pick out all the sessions I'm interested in. Now I need to go back through and narrow down the time slots that have multiple sessions in them. I also need to make sure I have at least one session for each of the divisions and roundtables I picked out. At least I think that's what I need to do. I also think that maybe I need to schedule some time to look at the exhibits and get free books and all that other stuff. I don't think that is scheduled in separately so I probably don't want to spend all my time in sessions. Even though there are already more sessions that I want to see than I have time for. I'm super stressed about the whole trip but I am also super stressed about every other aspect of my life right now and I think that is preventing me from becoming overwhelmed by any one thing. When I start getting worked up about one thing I quickly remember all the other things. It's almost August.

Tonight there was a small woodcarvers meeting in our small meeting room. It consisted of four old guys with their small bags of woodcarving tools and it really made me miss my grandpa. One of the guys really reminded me of my grandpa. I'm not sure how often they have meetings but hopefully it is frequently. I just checked the calendar, because that's a thing I can do, and it looks like maybe it is an every other Monday thing. At least it was this month and it is the same in July. I want to ask them questions. Maybe see if I can join their group. I don't really have the time to do that at the moment but I will in August.

Tonight I closed “by myself”, meaning I was the only adult services librarian so I was in charge. Thankfully nothing happened. We had a meeting of a bunch of women that stayed up until nine o'clock, probably a minute or two after, but we eventually got everyone out. And right as I was about to walk about with the adult services assistant and the maintenance guy I remembered that I had forgotten my keys upstairs, so they had to wait on me to go up and grab them. Yesterday I forgot my water bottle and today it was my keys. I wonder what I'll forget next time. When I forgot my water bottle it was because I was so focused on not forgetting to lock up the keys. Tonight I think I was too focused on not forgetting my book for class. Maybe I need to ease up on the focus.

When I got home I watched some YouTube videos and ate some pistachios. Now I'm going to wrap this up so I can read my book and go to bed. Tomorrow I've got a meeting in the morning and I'm helping out with the orientation table in the afternoon. Somewhere in there I also need to pack because we have to leave super early Wednesday morning for my flight. It would be nice to figure out I don't have something before it is too late for me to go buy it.