October 9, 2016

 Today kind of sucked. It was one of those avoidance days where I couldn't really enjoy anything because I was doing my damnedest not to do anything. I can barely even find the motivation to write this.

My only goal was to work on my presentation for my class on Tuesday. Things started off well. After sleeping in a bit I stayed in bed but spent awhile coming up with my game plan for the presentation. I then thought I would get up and eventually turn that plan into a handout and outline. But that never happened. And that means I'll have to kick it into gear tomorrow. I've got a lot of time on the desk so as long as I don't have a lot of patron interactions I should be able to knock it out. I should have been able to easily knock it out today, too, so I guess that's not saying much. It's been a bit of a frustrating day to say the least.

My only real accomplishment was watching movies. Tonight I watched Hush, The Giver, and I just finished watching Desk Set. Hush is a horror movie where a deaf lady is trapped in her house by a killer. It had an interesting premise and the movie wasn't too bad. I would have liked the killer to have kept his mask on longer because that was way scarier than when you actually see his face. Also, the killer was played by the younger guy in 10 Cloverfield Lane, fun fact. The Giver is one of my favorite books, probably in the top three, and I never got around to seeing the movie. The movie is definitely not the book but it obviously wasn't supposed to be. I liked how they handled it. At some point I'd like to see a more faithful adaptation though. Finally, Desk Set is a classic with Katharine Hepburn playing the head of a reference department that is threatened by the addition of a new machine that can quickly answer questions. It is interesting because even though it came out in the 1950s, people are still convinced humans, and libraries, are going to be replaced by machines. We're still not there yet.

Now I've got to go to bed because I open in the morning. I don't like this pattern I've gotten into of getting very little sleep during the week and then trying to make up for it on the weekends. It's not working for me. And I don't think it will get any better in the near future with all the new house stuff still in the works. If all goes well closing should be on the Halloween but then there's all the moving in stuff. I just need to figure out a routine. Basically just be a better adult and get better at managing my time. The library has been interesting because I not only have to work hard in the present, I also have to be planning for months in the future. It's a lot to juggle and I don't think I'm quite there yet.