This morning I woke up early, laid
in bed for awhile, and then got up and put in a few hours for my
practicum. I started cleaning up all the data for the assessment
project. That involved combining the two data sets into one file but
different pages in Excel, just so they're easier to work with. Then
I did some basic formatting stuff so it was easier to read. Lastly,
I went through and hid all the things that seemed irrelevant. There
might be some other stuff that my practicum supervisor wants to hide,
because I'm not entirely sure what all we're going to be looking at,
but I think I made a decent start. I only had a little bit of time
left to look into coming up with how big our sample size needs to be
so that is on my list for tomorrow. Once that is determined I can
use a random number generator to pick the responses for the sample
and then divide those up between myself, my practicum supervisor, and
the other librarian working with us. It looks like I can do the
random number thing in Excel. Then I can just sort by those numbers
and we can pick the first, second, and third however many rather than
having to scroll through and find our numbers. I'll save that for
tomorrow, though.
I was feeling pretty good about my
productivity this morning and then I went and checked my phone. I
had received three texts from the lady who cuts my hair, wondering if
I was coming in. Dang it. For some reason I had the 13th
in my head, which I think is the date it was last month. I also kind
of felt like it was next week. Basically I blew it. I went years,
if not decades, without missing an appointment, and now it seems to
happen far too regularly. Granted it has been a really long time
since it has happened. But still. I feel like an asshole, as I
should. Thankfully, she is very understanding about my stressful
existence and my scattered brain at the moment and we were able to
reschedule for Thursday morning. I went with eight o'clock, which
sucks, but I figured that would force me to get up and around and I
might be able to get some things done when I get home before going to
work. I will regret the decision when I'm stuck at work until nine
o'clock at night.
Today at work I had my first month
review and that went well. Considering I was gone for about half of
the time since I was hired. I was able to bring up my idea for ESL
classes, which would take a lot of work to get set up, but it's a
goal to work toward. We also talked about a bunch of other things
and then it was over and I was able to go eat dinner. At four
o'clock in the afternoon.
Tonight I had a long conversation
with one of my coworker's husband. He is a nerdy guy and apparently
my coworker thinks we should be best friends. This is now the second
person at the library that thinks I need to hang out with their
husband, following the PR coordinator basically trying to set up a
play date with her husband, which was pretty funny. At some point,
when I'm done with school, I should start pursuing these
opportunities because I don't have any friends in town and that is
something that I should work on.
The old men in the carving group
were back in the library tonight. I think when I looked it up they
come in every other Monday. I spoke with them briefly tonight as
they were cleaning up and one of them said they've been coming in for
the past four or five years. I'm slowly working up the courage to
ask them more questions about their group and learn more about them.
I think it's a cool hobby and they make me nostalgic for grandpas. I
don't want to interrupt their time hanging out together but I really
want to be a fly on the wall and take in the grandpa-vibes.
The night as a whole went well. I
worked on a personalized reading list, pulled some more books for my
historical fiction display, helped a few people, and had random
conversations with my coworker. We closed at nine o'clock and
tonight was the first time it really seemed dark outside when we left
the building. It was still light outside because it's the summer,
but it seemed noticeably darker than the last time I closed. Just an
observation.
Now I'm going to go to bed so I can
wake up early-ish and work on practicum and school stuff. My days
off from work are going to be my savior for this practicum. It's
still going to be close but I should be able to make up for lost time
if I put in enough hours on those days. I'll need to do the math. I
also need to leave time for schoolwork. I've been dropping the ball
with my capstone and I need to get a lot of work done on that by the
nineteenth, like have all of my artifacts chosen. Yikes.
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