December 14, 2016

 I had another productive day at work. My day started with two hours on the desk, which I spent most of printing out all of the letters and interest forms for my homebound patrons and then stuffing them into envelopes. I also got a call for a new homebound patron. Oddly enough, like my most recent new one, this patron also only wants audiobooks.

Continuing the theme, I spent my off-desk time upstairs working on the book lists for my homebound patrons. I was able to finish all of my lists, including my new patron, minus the one who I have to pull old books for.

I worked on something before our departmental meeting but it is escaping me so we'll just skip forward. The meeting went well. For the first half an hour or so we had a few people from the children's department and the PR coordinator there and we talked about how we go about creating programs and deal with scheduling. It was interesting to get different perspectives. Right now the goal is to have stuff scheduled at least two months in advance but the ultimate goal is to have things scheduled six months in advance. That seems a little daunting to everyone right now but I think it'll be better once we're in that mindset and it just becomes the way we do things.

For the rest of the meeting we talked about goals, our roles in the department, the customer conduct policy, handed out kudos, and the librarian who works on programming and I handed out our sign-up sheets for next semester's programs and tech training. It was a productive meeting.

After the meeting I had a walkthrough and then I spent my last forty-five minutes putting the training classes for the one-on-one tech lady on the calendar. I didn't think that would take me the whole time, but it did. I was also able to add in some descriptions for my other classes, leaving with only a few more to come up with descriptions for. I also need to come up with our policy for what we will and won't do during our tech help time.

Tonight was Chipotle night and I only had to drive around the block once before I got a spot in the parking lot. The line was going particularly slow tonight but I eventually got through it. My bowl ended up being pretty good tonight but I didn't get chips. Not on purpose, they just didn't hear me ask for two. And on the plus side, it wasn't a mistake where I was charged for two bags but only got one.

I left my Mom's house around nine o'clock, after we had watched videos and talked for awhile. I honestly wanted to leave earlier because I haven't been able to crochet for the last few days and I want to finish my projects for Christmas. That is fast approaching and I can't save it all for the last minute because my hands won't be able to handle it. I think it'll be a stretch even at this point. And it is now too late to do anything tonight. I don't have to go to work until 10:30AM tomorrow but I have a haircut at 8:00AM, and I'm tired, so I don't want to stay up any later than I have to. Which means I will be going to bed soon, and I can't wait.