July 25, 2016

 I'm tired.

The morning happened and then I went to work at at noon. I wasn't on the desk at all for the first half of my shift so I did a walkthrough and then went up to the cubicle. I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do but then I remembered I needed to take a course on the reference interview and write about it on the staff blog. Had I just listened to the course recording and taken the quizzes it would have taken me an hour and a half. It took me three hours and a half, however, because I was also taking notes as I went. I started off listening to the recording but I could read faster than the lady was speaking so I turned off sound and went at my own pace. Which was great until I started taking a bunch of notes because then my pace became super slow. By the end of it I had a bunch of notes and I now have to somehow turn them into a blog post. I might condense things quite a bit and then put my notes on the shared drive for people that are interested.

That took me up to my dinner break. When I got back to the library I was on the desk for a couple uneventful hours, and then off the desk for a couple uneventful hours. I can't complain though because right before I got back from dinner the librarian hired with me had to ask a patron to leave because he was cursing and being loud. And then she and my boss had to ask him to leave the parking lot because he was doing the same out there. So a quiet night was okay with me.

While I was on the desk I had time to finish typing my conference journal and got that sent to my boss. I'll also be able to put it in my capstone portfolio now. I also talked a lot with my fellow librarian, and briefly with her husband when he stopped by. I have a lot of similar interests with this librarian so when we close together we end up getting distracted easily. It looks like in the near future when I go to a regular schedule instead of one suited to my practicum, I won't be closing on Monday anymore.

I closed downstairs tonight and while doing one of my walkthroughs I found a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in a secluded corner of the teen section. I'm assuming whoever took it out of the reading room just wanted a quiet place to read the articles. They probably just didn't realize the reading room is the quietest place in the library. Oh to be young again.

Tonight I think I decided on the skateboard I want. I have gone from originally wanting a Penny board, to wanting a cruiser board, to now wanting something in between a cruiser and a longboard. It seems that the bigger the board, the easier it is to ride, at least in terms of stability. Because I don't know how to ride a skateboard I figure stability is a good thing. I would have never figured out how to ride a tiny Penny board. So I decided to go bigger. I really like the look of Sector 9's Rhythm but at 38” it seems a little too big. Instead, I think I'm going to get Sector 9's Ft. Point, which is 34” long and 8.75” long, and I like the overall look of it. I also found a promo code for $20 off which means I can get a set of green wheels for only about $8. Not bad. Maybe if I can get a decent amount of work done tomorrow I'll buy it. Then I can stop thinking about it and focus on the rest of my schoolwork.

Speaking of, I need to go to bed now because it is late and I would like to not sleep through half of my day. I've got so much crap to do and I need to take advantage of this day off from work.