October 16, 2016

 This morning was a bit of a mess but I didn't realize it until I got out of bed. I slept great last night and kept having really interesting dreams. I immediately forgot all of them as soon as I sat up, and couldn't even give you a broad description of any of them, but I remember liking them.

And that turned out to be my downfall because I wanted to just stay in bed and keep dreaming. I didn't think that was a bad thing but last night after changing my alarm time I forgot to turn it on. I was laying in bed, enjoying the dreams, assuming my alarm would notify me when I needed to get up, but I was waiting for an alarm that would never come. At one point I rolled over and glanced at the clock and it read 11:20AM. What. The. Hell? I had set my alarm for 10:00AM so I could get up, take a shower, and have plenty of time for lunch before work. Instead, I slept great, but then had to quickly get ready and eat a quick lunch while standing in the kitchen before rushing out the door. It also didn't help that I couldn't remember when I actually needed to be at work. The schedule said noon but I was thinking 12:30PM because on Saturday we show up half an hour before we open and today we opened at 1:00PM, so 12:30PM would make sense. It would also make the shift five and a half hours long, which is what it is supposed to be. But then I started thinking about it too much and thought maybe it was noon and that the two fifteen minute breaks we're supposed to take during the day would count as a half hour off the day, bringing it down from six hours to five and a half hours. In the end I decided to just split the difference and got there at 12:15PM. I think I may have been early but it's better than being late.

Today at work I did things. I pulled the books for my final patron, printed out all the bookmarks and put them in the books, and put all the books into bags. So all I have left is to call my patrons, which I will hopefully do tomorrow because I'm off Tuesday and Wednesday morning I'm supposed to watch a virtual conference on something library-related.

When I was done with the homebound stuff I made a personalized reading list. It mostly consisted of fantasy novels with a few horror novels thrown in. They didn't want explicit sex or excessive bad language but I can't really guarantee any of that because I haven't read any of the books I put on the list. I just tried to stick with books that didn't sound like they would have that stuff based on the descriptions. Fingers crossed. I have yet to have anyone provide feedback on a personalized reading list, even though they're supposed to. Maybe this will be the first. Hopefully not because I completely screwed it up.

I did a few other things today, like helped patrons and chat statistics stuff, but the homebound stuff and personalized reading list were the big things. And overall it was a fairly quiet day, which is appreciated on the weekends when I am in charge of the library.

After work I ate dinner and then sorted out the email on my mom's phone because it wasn't updating in the app she normally uses after she changed her password. Turns out it was a security issue with Yahoo but it didn't take to long to fix.

With the rest of my night I watched videos, played a little Stardew Valley for the first time, and read the first chapter of Shutter Island. I've wanted to play Stardew Valley since it first came out but I was still in school and didn't want to get sucked into another game. I also didn't want to pay full price. The opportunity came up recently to get it for a discount through Humble Bundle in conjunction with their latest monthly subscription bundle. I have no idea what the other games will be because they won't be announced until November, but for signing up for the subscription I gained instant access to Stardew Valley. It ended up being even cheaper because there was an additional 10% off for being a first time subscriber. I only played a little bit but I like it. My only problem at the moment is how quickly the days go by and how quickly I run out of energy. But I'm sure I'll get used to the days and that my energy will improve over time.

For several weeks now I have been interested in watching Shutter Island. I think the last time I saw it was when I previewed it at the theater, so that's been awhile. I didn't realize it was a book until today when I was working on the personalized reading list, and even though I already have way too many books checked out and I'm not reading them fast enough, I decided to checkout Shutter Island. I also checked out Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman because I like short stories and one of them is supposed to be a Doctor Who story. I really want to go back and watch Doctor Who again and this can be a way of dipping my toes back in the universe. I also want to watch Battlestar Galactica again. There area so many things I want to read and watch and do and so little time. Time is annoying.

But now I'm going to go to bed so hopefully even if I forget to turn my alarm on again, I won't sleep in until 11:20AM. Which would be great because I know for a fact I need to go to work at noon tomorrow.