Today was an interesting day. I
went to work this morning and it didn't feel like I accomplished much
because I was on the desk for most of the morning. I edited a
picture of Lin Manuel Miranda for my Hamilton Read Alike sign, which
took awhile, and then went and grabbed a stack of books for the
display. I had just enough time to go downstairs and add all of
those to a record set and change their location in the system to
being on a display before I had to take over the reference desk.
That was unfortunate because I really wanted to get the display set
up.
Throughout the morning we had one
phone call about finding custody forms and two people stopped by
looking for forms. I think one of those people was from the phone
call, but there was apparently also someone the other day looking for
custody forms. It's really odd. The first guy that came in today
was a little irritated, I'm assuming with his current situation, and
he took it out on everyone. He came up to the desk and asked where
to get the form and when we said we weren't sure he said they had
sent him up from circulation and they said we would be able to help.
He wanted to know if they were lying to him downstairs. Not a great
start. Then he made a comment when he asked if he could come behind
the desk and I said “yes” and the other librarian said “no”,
at the same time. That was my bad because I'm still no used to
having the separation of a desk. We weren't able to find what he
needed but he thanked me, which was good, but then he told the other
librarian to have a good day and she didn't hear him because she was
still trying to find information for him. So he turned around,
stared at her, and said in a stern, less-than-pleasant voice “I
said have a good day”, and waited for her to respond. It was
awkward.
The second lady had almost the same
question and I think she needed the same type of form and we were
equally unhelpful. We've got a lot of stuff about statutes but
nothing with forms. They both said at the courthouse they had told
them they just needed one form and that it was free. They apparently
didn't tell them what form or where to find it though. And the
closest place I could find the book of probate forms the lady was
looking for was forty-five minutes away. When I got home I texted my
friend's mom to see if she knew of any place in town that would have
custody forms. That isn't her specialty but I thought maybe she
would have some colleagues that might know. She said she'd look into
it.
I went to lunch at one o'clock and
when I got back at two o'clock I did a walkthrough and was then
supposed to have my first month review with my boss. She sent me
home instead, after signing the form saying I had read the personnel
manual. Tomorrow I technically work nine and a half hours because
the administrators don't work the weekends and I will be the only
librarian in the building, which means I am in charge and won't be
able to leave for my lunch break. When that happens you have to take
off that extra hour and a half earlier in the week. My boss had
forgotten about this and I didn't remember it being mentioned in my
training, although it probably was. She didn't realize this before I
got back from lunch or she would have just told me not to come back.
It would have been nice to not waste fifteen minutes getting back to
work, and then another fifteen minutes going back home. It would
have also been nice to finish my display.
I was already supposed to get off
early to make up for my extra time with the conference (and I still
need to make up twenty minutes next week) so with even more time I
should have been that much more productive. It should be no surprise
that I wasn't. I added a few more clues for the scavenger hunt and
got the briefest of starts on the two blog posts I have to write
about the ALA divisions I chose. Those are due Sunday and I am over
thinking it to the maximum degree. The instructions are slightly
confusing and the rubric is really vague, and that doesn't help. I
also think that maybe in this case my over thinking is a way for my
mind to be full consumed with a single thing rather than trying to
juggle all of the things I need to be working on. It's not working
though because over thinking leads to me becoming indecisive and then
I just shut down. And doing nothing is not a great way to get stuff
done.
My goal today started with finishing
both blog posts. Then just one. And now my goal is to finish both
of them tomorrow. There might be enough down time tomorrow at work
if I can get both of my displays done, to work on one of the blog
posts. If nothing else I'll have an hour at lunch to work on it.
Then I can finish it up and start on the second one when I get off
work. It really sucks that I have to work this weekend. There is a
good chance I'll have to wake up early Sunday morning so I can finish
them up before I go to work. Next week will be even busier. Can't
wait.
It is now midnight and I have to
wake up for work in the morning, continuing the streak of not getting
enough sleep.
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