November 28, 2016

This morning I woke up, got ready, and eventually left for work. I timed it and thanks to some lucky stoplight timing, I got to the library in just twelve minutes, which gave me three minutes to park and get inside. Not bad. It's still about twice as long as my old commute but it could be worse.

Today was an interesting day at work. I was on desk for the first two hours, had walkthroughs for the next two hours, and after lunch I had four free hours. I feel like I should have been more productive with that much free time but I did manage to keep myself busy the whole time, so there's that.

While I was on desk I got a phone call from an older lady who wanted to double-check how to spell the name 'Sheila'. It felt like a very old fashion reference question, and I loved it.

Recently one of the other librarians wrote about comic books for her newspaper article. Following that article she received a handwritten note from a ninety-four year old lady who hated the article. At one point she told the librarian that she must have been on a “high horse of intellectual 'superiority'” while writing the article. And, pretty much her whole reason for disliking the article was because it never mentioned the “funny pages”. Ignoring the fact that the article wasn't about comic strips, it was about comic books that we have at the library. The woman obviously saw the title of the article, developed a notion of what she thought the article was about, or what she wanted the article to be about, and was upset when the article did not meet that preconceived notion. Seems like the problem is with the patron, not the article, but to each their own.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I got a small package with glazed pecans and a thank you note from the man I looked up old track articles for a little while ago. It was kind of a pain looking up the articles when he didn't have any specific dates but it was also an interesting challenge. And it was pretty cool that he took the time to send me a thank you note and a small gift.

This afternoon with all my free time I worked on compiling my list of books for my display next month. I got way more books than I'll probably need because I doubt the popularity of my display, but better to be over-prepared than under-prepared. This morning I actually took the time to refill my two displays, even though they could have made it just fine to the end of the month. Over-prepared.

On my lunch break I went to my mom's house because it's closer, but it worked out because part of the lights were blown down from all the wind yesterday and I was able to fix that. After work I stopped back by to finish replacing the smoke detector batteries. I also picked up some stuff, because I'm slowly but surely moving my stuff.

I wanted to finish the last of my Thanksgiving leftovers tonight so I ended up eating too much. There was too much for one meal but not enough for two. Well, there was probably enough for two, but I had already resolved myself to finishing the leftovers, so I did.

After dinner I read through my mail, looked through a couple books I checked out today, watched YouTube videos, and now I'm watching Bob's Burgers. But as soon as I finish writing this I will be going to bed. I'm freaking tired.