February 28, 2017

 I forgot to mention a funny story from yesterday. An old man came by the desk and he had a big bruise across half of his face. The cataloger was at the desk talking to us about a book and the old man knew her so he stopped. She commented on his face and wanted to know if he was okay. He said he was, that he was just auditioning for Phantom of the Opera. It was pretty funny. He then said that he had been walking down the street, watching a cop give someone a ticket, when he tripped over a root and fell down, hitting his head. He said it much of been karma for minding someone else's businees. Another good line.

Today at work I did things. This morning I started making a list of non-fiction books for my green books display. Sadly there were only a few Ireland books that had a green cover. But there are plenty of books in our collection with green covers, so I should be good even if the display does well. Later on in the day I was able to pull books and it made me so happy be walk around with stacks of green books. My cart looks so good right now, stuffed with green books. And I'm really looking forward to seeing the card catalog when I get my display set up.

I struggled to renew my membership to KLA today. Their website is awful. It took me forever to get my email and password combination. I ended up figuring it out by trying multiple times to reset my password. This involved them emailing me but they only send the email to the primary email on the account. Turns out I have at least two, possibly three secondary emails on the account, because it kept telling me the email address I had typed in was associated with an account but not the primary address on the account. I eventually figured out that I had used my old school district email to register last time. Who knows what I was thinking. Once I had the email address logging in was easy enough. But I couldn't change my email address because I couldn't figure out how to get to my profile. It felt like no matter what I clicked on I ended up in the middle of nowhere on their website. It was frustrating.

I then registered for the conference that I'm presenting at with my former practicum supervisor, which is the whole reason I fell down the rabbit hole of trying to renew my KLA membership. I ended up paying about fifteen dollars less for registration because of my KLA membership. Hooray. It only cost me sixty dollars to save fifteen dollars.

I made a tentative layout for how I want my tutorial to look. I made the image using Canva and then managed to turn it into a ten second video using VLC and uploaded it to YouTube. I was then able to play with annotations and I think they will allow me to do what I want with the table of contents and directional arrows. I also briefly looked into creating a subtitle file to upload with my video. I think there is potential there.

I updated the webpage for the class today. I got rid of the registration button, added in the survey button, and added in the resources for the class. I don't know how often the pages get used but I'm glad they are an option.

When I was on desk this afternoon I typed up a list of books for my display. This morning I just wrote the books down on several small scraps of paper but I wanted a more permanent document. And something that was easier to read than my handwriting. I was also able to update the attendance and feedback information for the class when it was over. They had eleven people show up, which is not bad considering the cap for the class was fourteen.

And we'll say that was my day because it is all that I wrote down throughout the day, and all that is coming to mind at the moment.

When I got home I roasted vegetables and made rice. It's been too long. It's easily my favorite meal that I have made, and it turned out really good tonight. I'm looking forward to eating the leftovers.

I spent the rest of the night watching YouTube videos and clicking around the internet. I am really tired and I kind of feel like crap. My throat hurts and I have the faintest hint of chills. My throat started hurting yesterday and I hope I wake up tomorrow feeling better, not worse. I can't really afford to get sick at the moment. Especially because I need to record my tutorial. Fingers crossed for a miraculous recovery tomorrow morning.

It is just after ten o'clock right now and I'm going to record my audio journal so hopefully I can get to bed by eleven. I would have liked to go to bed even earlier but I've been moving a bit slower. Which is saying something.