October 6, 2016

 This morning I slept in and it was pretty nice. Unfortunately tonight I will be getting much less sleep because I have to wake up early to open, after closing tonight. Can't wait for that.

Today kind of felt like a throwaway day. In terms of patrons it was a pretty slow day so there wasn't much going on there. I answered several questions over the phone and a couple in person but that was about it. I spent a little time working on my class but didn't really do anything. I'm going to finish it this weekend. I went through the rest of my weeding list and marked off the books that I'll definitely be weeding but I didn't actually pull any books today. Instead, with my time off the desk today, I looked through microfilm for the guy I talked to a week or two ago who ran track in college and wanted newspaper articles that mentioned him. I spent a lot of time searching on the internet to try and narrow down specific days to look for in the paper. I decided on that after spending time earlier in the day scrolling through until I found the Sports page and then searching. It was much easier having specific dates. I found a few things, and need to redo one of them, but I think I can do that tomorrow and then send him what I have. I would like to keep searching but I have a lot of things on my To-Do list.

Out of curiosity I checked to see if any of the books I recommended in my article had checked out. I saw that one of them had and I wanted to see if it was a fluke. Of the however many I mentioned in my article, four of them had checked out since my article was published. The least impressive one had most recently been checked out last month, so not much to brag about. Next up there was one that hadn't checked out since July and one that hadn't checked out since last December. Most impressively was the cookbook which hadn't checked out since January and not only checked out, but also had a hold on it. So at least a few people read my article, even if my name wasn't correct.

There was a chance of bad weather tonight, with tornadoes popping up in surrounding counties, but we only got a short bit of heavy rain. Then the sky looked weird for the rest of the night and when I got off work it was 50 degrees outside. It was nice. Perfect jacket weather. And I was glad we didn't get severe weather because I didn't really want to spend the night in the basement of the library. At least not with a bunch of patrons.

When I got home tonight I signed all the loan documents for the bank. Two of them I had to print out, sign, and then upload them, but all the others I could do it electronically. There were a lot of documents and it took forever to read through everything, but I managed to get it done. We're getting closer.

Now I'm going to go to bed because, as mentioned previously, I have to open tomorrow. Hopefully I can get some things done. Productive things, preferably, not just things that I do when trying to avoid the things I should be doing.