December 12, 2016

 I did a lot of things at work today but I wasn't really keeping track so I have probably forgotten most of the stuff by now.

I opened this morning, which means I was going to stock up on our sharpened pencils. I used the majority of the sharpened ones filling up all the holders around the library but then there were only three unsharpened ones left in the box, including the one I had just started when the pencil sharpener died last week. So no one had touched them since the last time I opened. I was hoping someone would at least get a new box of pencils. But no. And maybe for good reason, because I tried to find a new box but couldn't. The administrative assistant couldn't either, so our stock of sharpened pencils is still lacking. When the librarian who has been working there forever came in she went and got a box because she knows where they are. Now we're ready for whenever someone feels like sharpening.

Throughout the day I started, worked on, and finished a personalized reading list. In the process I came across several books that I now want to read. It's a constant problem when surrounded by books. I also found a few Christmas books to add to the Staff Picks display. To keep with the theme of the month I am exclusively picking Christmas-themed books. Due to that, I have strayed from books I have actually read. I make personalized reading lists all the time recommending books I have never read and pick out fifty or sixty books each month for homebound patrons, so I think it is alright to pick books that look interesting, even if I haven't read them. I just hope I don't accidentally pick an awful book.

I sent and replied to emails today. I emailed the PR coordinator about promoting my Spring classes. I emailed one of the youth librarians about setting up a meeting for next week. I emailed the one-on-one technology lady the class schedule for the Spring. I emailed the teen librarian about Spheros. And I emailed the patron from Texas who mailed me a nice Thank You note and a package of glazed pecans.

The lady who calls a lot to ask for business information and to place a bunch of ILLs called today. She has been known to hang up on me while I'm working on a request because I don't talk constantly and then when she asks me a question, and I respond, she ignores it, hangs up, immediately calls back, and tells me we got disconnected. Today I got to hang up on her because she went quiet and stopped responding. She eventually called back and after a little while hung up on me. Then she called back twice and immediately up on me, before calling back a third time to tell me we got disconnected. She's an odd duck.

I also got a start on making lists of books for my homebound patrons.

Other things happened but I'm kind of losing interested in trying to remember.

After work I went to Hobby Lobby to buy yarn. I have bags and bags of yarn but I needed new yarn. Or so I told myself. When I got home, after dinner, I started a new amigurumi based on a video/tutorial I found for a small bear. The robot is bigger than expected and I was wanting to make my mom and sister something for Christmas. My fingers and wrists couldn't take it. The bear is quite a bit smaller and I think it will be much easier. Rather than making a head and a body and then sewing them together, the bear's head and body are one continuous piece, decreasing for the neck and increasing again to transition into the body. I finished the head and stuffed it with stuffing stuff. It was like a clown car. I just kept pulling more and more stuffing into it and it felt like a bottomless pit. I eventually got it filled but I'll need to add in more when I get a few more rows added so I can fill up the neck. Tomorrow I might be able to finish the body, but probably not because I close at work and I don't know that I will wake up early to crochet before I go in.

While I crocheted I watched YouTube videos, including recordings from this year's Yogcast Jingle Jam. I can't watch when it's live because I'm at work so I'm glad they upload the videos to YouTube.

Shortly I will be going to bed, hopefully. Tomorrow at work I want to send out some letters to my homebound patrons and then do something else. Maybe finish picking out books for my homebound patrons.