February 3, 2017

 This morning I got to sleep in again and then I eventually got ready, ate lunch, and went to work.

At work I did not take notes so I have forgotten a lot. I'll never learn.

I had a walkthrough when I first got to work and then I covered the desk for a little bit while the other librarian went to talk to the PR lady. Eventually I was on the desk for real and it was uneventful. At least uneventful enough that I can't remember it. Oh, I watched a bunch of usability videos. That's what I did. There was something else, which I still can't remember, but I spent most of the time watching usability videos and occasionally helping patrons.

I had two free hours after my desk shift so I went upstairs and watched a training video for Mango Languages and wrote a post about it for our department blog. I wasn't expecting to get too much out of it but I did learn some things that I might try to incorporate into other things in the future. All the things.

Other stuff happened, I think I went back upstairs, after another walkthrough, and worked on the Pinterest class for a awhile before going to dinner. When I got back from dinner I had to wait for the librarian on the desk to finish helping a patron and writing an email before I could get on the desk. I spent that time looking through an issue of Library Journal and talking with the teen librarian. She showed me a video clip from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, which is a show I hadn't thought about in years and didn't realize anyone else knew about it. It was hilarious.

I didn't really have much to do with the rest of my night. I spoke with my coworker for awhile and then spent the rest of my time making a small sign to go on my African American history display that has links to a few more resources that I read about in the Library Journal issue I had been looking at earlier. The first print came out looking weird because the color messed up, so I did a bunch of things, like saving it as a PDF, printing it as an image, and my coworker changed some things on the copier. And that print came out looking much better.

Overall it was a very quiet evening, which I am okay with.

When I got home I ate some popcorn and sourdough bread. Separately, not like a sandwich. I also watched YouTube videos and clicked around the internet for awhile. Now I'm going to record my audio journal. It's only ten o'clock, which is somewhat early for a Friday, but I'm doing the outreach thing tomorrow morning so I have to wake up early. I'm not looking forward to the waking up part but the outreach thing should be fun. Hopefully. It's going to screw up my laundry schedule, which is going to screw up dinner schedule, but I'll figure it out.