September 15, 2016

 I was going to go to bed early tonight but it is eleven o'clock right now, so that didn't happen.

Today work seemed to go really slow. And it didn't feel very productive. Most of my day was spent kind of working on homebound stuff. I made a list of the books all of my patrons have currently checked out so I will have a better idea of what I should be getting back from them next week. The main reason for this is one of my patrons currently has eleven books out but I only take her eight every month. Every month I seem to miss a book. At this rate she's eventually going to end up with the whole library. So my goal is to make sure I get all the books back next time, especially the one she's had for two or three months now.

I also worked on my handout for my upcoming tech class because I'm doing the practice class next week. The handout kind of sucks. Like a lot. I need to figure it out. When I hit a wall with that I spent the last bit of time at work editing an example picture so I can show the class a before and after so they have an idea of what is possible. I might need to pick a different picture though because the one I went with is really damaged and it is going to take forever to fix. But we'll see.

On top of the class thing I also need to come up with a topic for, and then write, my newspaper column. And create my outlines for the other upcoming tech classes. I have the slightest feeling of being overwhelmed but it's only a tingling feeling on the periphery of my life. For the time being.

For a good portion of my day I wore my rain jacket because it was freezing at the desk. When I get too cold I have to constantly go to the bathroom, even when I haven't had enough water to warrant that many trips to the bathroom. I also have trouble focusing on work when I'm trying not to shiver. When I got home tonight I ordered a green fleece jacket because a fleece jacket is warm and more professional looking than a green hoodie. At least that's what I'm telling myself. We'll see how it looks next week. And hope that it is the right size. The majority of the reviews said it runs small and I'm trusting them.

I got to be a librarian a few times today. I took a girl to the stacks to show her where our Psychology books are. She said she didn't have anything specific in mind so I showed her the more straight-up Psychology books but also the ones that were more pop-psych. I look up books on the 1960s for another patron and then showed her where to find the two she picked out.

And the most librarian thing was the last patron who came in and asked about the local newspaper. She asked where to find it and when I asked how recent she said within the last month. I got up to start to show her where we keep the older issues that haven't been put on microfilm yet but when she asked if she was going to have to look through all of them I asked what she was specifically looking for. It ended up being a letter to the editor and she knew who wrote it so I pulled up NewsBank, which we just added this week I think. It has an archive of our local newspaper for the last twenty years and I was able to type in the name she gave me and it showed up as the first result. It ended up being really freaking easy. I was shocked. And I felt like a badass librarian.

Tonight I watched YouTube videos, read a couple chapters in a book, and looked at houses. Tried a new site which had several that weren't on the other site, so that was interesting. I also looked at houses in other towns, which made me a little sad because there are way more options in the surrounding towns. We have a decent selection here in my price range but the vast majority are in a floodplain, which I'm not going to go near. I have lived here all my life so I know to avoid the floodplain areas and the more sketchy areas of town. I don't have that type of knowledge for other towns so it is easier to look at all the houses and not dismiss them for their location. Oh well. My job is here and I don't plan on commuting. My realtor said he was going to start compiling a list and get back to me to set up some times to go out and look at them. Shit's gettin' real.

Now I'm going to go to bed because midnight is creeping up and I have to wake up in the morning. I don't go into work until eleven o'clock but it would be nice to do something things before work. Even if those things just mean laying in bed and reading a book.