July 13, 2016

This morning I was scheduled to work at eight o'clock, which originally annoyed me. Then, sometime between eight o'clock and nine o'clock, there was a torrential downpour. The giant atrium windows looked like a car wash and the view out of another large window was just blowing trees and horizontal rain. It also looked like the middle of the night outside. It was crazy. Some of the surrounding neighborhoods lost power but thankfully we did not. It seemed like losing power would be a big hassle. And I am glad I was there at eight o'clock and not nine o'clock is because the librarian that came in at nine o'clock got soaking wet. She spent the first few hours of her shift just trying to get dry. That would have sucked.

I worked on a personalized reading list for awhile, talked with my coworkers, transcribed some of the notes I took on an article because I took too many the first time, and helped the occasional patron. I had a couple wins with patrons today which is always a plus. It sucks getting a question I can't find an answer to. Or an answer that satisfies the patron. But today was good.

This afternoon we had a departmental meeting. It started with a tour of the building by the head custodian, showing us how to turn off the water in the bathrooms, how to shut the water off in the entire building, how to turn alarms off and reset them, where to guide firefighters if alarms or elevators need to be turned off, and probably some other things. Then we went to the boardroom to talk about weeding and displays. We each talked about the article we read about weeding and then we had a group discussion about displays because those are currently in a state of transition and we are trying to make them better.

The tour and the meeting lasted almost exactly two hours, which took me right up to the time I had to leave. It is kind of nice getting off at five o'clock but I don't know if it is worth going to work at eight o'clock. But it is also kind of nice being there at eight o'clock because we don't open until nine o'clock and after doing all the opening stuff you can just sit there in the quiet. And during the week you don't have to deal with the money, which is nice.

Tonight I put an hour into my practicum by learning more about Twine and envisioning how I can use it for the scavenger hunt. There is an overwhelming amount of potential and I would really like to make something with it. I feel like even if I don't have time to do it within the scope of the practicum I will work on it as a side project. If I can find the inspiration. And if I don't get completely sucked into No Man's Sky.

Tomorrow morning I've got a haircut at 8:00AM, a meeting with my practicum supervisor and the other librarian about the assessment project, I get to sit in on another academic services meeting, and at 12:30PM I go to work. It's going to be a long day. I thought today was going to be long but it wasn't actually that bad. Tomorrow I will be doing things between 8:00AM and 9:00PM, when I finally get off from work. I think it will live up to being a long day.