This morning I got up and went to
work at nine o'clock. It is surprising how much nice nine o'clock is
compared to eight o'clock. Getting off at five o'clock is nice but I
don't know that it is worth going in at eight o'clock.
At work I did things. I read
through to issues of Library Journal
so I could get them out of my mail tray. I only have one left. I
also researched some stuff for one of the classes I want to teach in
November. I did other things, I'm sure, even if they escape me. I
did help patrons, though. That I remember. Right before going to
lunch I got a call about a patron trying to find something through
interlibrary loan. That ended up being a much more involved process
that extended past the time I was supposed to go to lunch. I think I
kind of got her sorted out, talking her through how to use the
advanced search features to narrow in on what she was looking for.
At least in the ballpark anyway because it didn't look like any
library had exactly what she wanted.
This afternoon I also got a little
overrun. I was actively helping two separate people in our online
chat service, helped two people in person, and answered to phone
calls. All at the same time. One of the phone calls was from the
teen librarian asking for a quote from me to put with my picture that
she was posting on Instagram. My brain was little overwhelmed but I
managed to say something that at least kind of made sense.
Tonight I wrote my self evaluation
for my practicum. One step closer. I'll probably submit that
tomorrow after I have time to read over it again. I also added a few
books to the resource section of my group website. I found them at
work today and checked them out. They are the first books I have
checked out from the library in a really long time. Possibly
decades. I am interested in reading them, or at least skimming some
of them, but I also think some might be useful to a couple of my
classmates who asked questions about the site. I wasn't able to
respond to any of those tonight but my partner hasn't responded to
anyone's posts about our site and I don't want to take all of them
before he has a chance to. I'll answer them tomorrow probably.
When I was done with school stuff I
sewed two quick bookmarks to give to my practicum supervisor tomorrow
as a 'thank you' for making time for me this summer. They are two I
already had sewed together and turned inside out but the thread
screwed up on my machine when I tried to sew the outside of them,
back at the end of the year when I was making bookmarks for the
teachers and staff. My machine was being much more cooperative
tonight.
I also had a long texting
conversation with my sister tonight and I think I at least got her to
agree to come to my graduation dinner on Sunday. She's still super
pissed at my mom for some bullshit reason, most likely because my mom
inadvertently hit a nerve or touched on some insecurity and now my
sister is taking it out on my mom. I tried talking some sense into
her, maybe some of it will sink in at some point, but for the time
being she seems determined to hold onto it. Fantastic. Dinner
should be fun.
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