January 26, 2017

 Today is one of those days where I knew I should have been writing things down but then I didn't. So it was like most days.

I was only on desk for two hours today so I had a lot of time to do other random things. One of those things was weeding. I weeded a whole bunch. Somewhere around 150 books. That's a lot of books. And it was quite a bit more than that in pounds because they were all giant art books. I think I ended up taking three carts of books upstairs. I got my workout in today and my hands and wrists are a bit sore from lifting all the books. I had to take them off the shelf and put them on my cart, move them from my cart to a table so I could load up my cart again, move them from the table to the desk so I could withdraw them, and then move them to another cart so I could take them upstairs. I hurt a little.

I finished the latest personalized reading list but wasn't able to email it to the patron because at some point during the day our staff email stopped working. I started writing a help desk ticket for it but then got sidetracked before I could finish it, so that's on my list for tomorrow.

I printed out a copy of the instruction book for state taxes, put each page in clear sheet protector things, put them in a three-ring notebook, and then took it upstairs so that it could be cataloged. We'll keep it at the Reference desk and people will be able to check it out if they need to.

We finally got the 1040 instruction book, three big boxes of them, so I'm glad I brought a cart with me to the mail room. I believe that is the last tax-related thing we were waiting on so now we just have to worry about running out of them. Fingers crossed.

I spent the last hour of work (and about fifteen minutes after work) trying to get giant knots out of fishing line. I ended up having to call it a night when I got to the last little bit because tonight was Chipotle night and I was already running late. It is part of a thing for an event next week and after they measured it out and tied intention knots in it, they just wrapped it around their hand or something so it was in a circle. This led to it turning into a tangled mess. It would have been much easier to just measure out a new length of fishing line but I like a challenge and it had already been a long and productive day. I got really close to getting it all sorted out and I wanted to stay until I finished it but I figured it would give me something to do while I'm on desk tomorrow.

I had to drive around the block before getting a parking spot and there was a line past the door at Chipotle by the time I got there. But that is kind of what I was expecting. As for the food, it tasted like Chipotle. I was hungry but the taste was nothing to write home about. The YouTube videos I showed after dinner went over pretty well and then we sat at the table and talked until 9:00PM when I called it a night so I could get home and write this. It has been a tad slow going because it is 10:30PM at the moment and I still need to record my audio journal.

I also just checked the work schedule. No one is scheduled to open tomorrow and the boss is off because she works the weekend. I just texted one of the other librarians to see if she knows of any schedule changes that didn't get updated on the online schedule. Haven't heard back so we'll see. If I don't hear back tonight I'll just plan on waking up early and going in at eight o'clock instead of nine o'clock. It will at least mean I'll get off at five o'clock.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal while playing Crashlands and then go to bed. I'm not all that tired at the moment (although I just yawned as I said that). I'm looking forward to the weekend because I can use a little break. I've also got some more art books to look through. And some food to cook.