February 6, 2017

 Today a patron said he was “fine as a frog's hair.” I need to incorporate that into my own lexicon

Today was one of those days at work where I did things but it didn't really feel like I accomplished much. Thankfully I took notes because it is also one of those days where I would have forgotten everything.

When I got to work I had two free hours. I started that time by refilling the tax stuff and my DVD display. It checked out a lot over the weekend. It would be nice if we kept track of those stats because it would be interesting to see how much it checks out a month. I also restocked my African American History display. I think only two or three books have gone off it but I added several more just to fill up the spare books. It would be nice if it were more popular because there are a lot of interesting books on there.

I spent the rest of the two hours upstairs. I finished watching usability videos, watched instructional videos on how to drive a Prius, and looked up Minecraft books for my class on Thursday. So far only one person has signed up and I'm almost certain they won't be there. They just signed up for a library card online today and they have a New York address. That'll be a bit of a commute.

I was then on desk for an hour and spent that time answering the phone and the chat, and occasionally helped a patron in person. I also spent that time catching up on chat stats. I would like to keep up with it a little better than I did last month.

I typed up and printed three homebound letters and got started on my lists but only briefly. One of my patrons was gone last month so I'm going to reuse that list. Another patron hasn't been doing well and has switched to audiobooks that his wife picked up so I imagine I won't be delivering to him this month.

After lunch the day just kind of disappeared. I was eventually on the desk for two hours. There wasn't a single email or chat but there were several phone calls. There was also an interesting musical chairs experience, twice. I was on the main computer but got up so one of the other librarians could check something because I wasn't doing anything important. And then I needed to print a guest pass for someone so I had to get on the second computer that another librarian was on. Later on that librarian ended up doing something on my computer for some reason and at the same time I needed to do something so I was on her computer again. I don't know if any of that makes sense. It was just strange because it seemed like neither of us had anything to do until we let someone use our computer.

Because of the conference thing on Friday I have to make up the extra time, assuming the event and the trip will last longer than a normal work day. I made up one of those hours tonight by getting off at five o'clock, which was fantastic because I was running out of things to do.

When I got home I had delicious leftovers for dinner, watched YouTube videos, and played Minecraft. I also watched Doctor Strange. It was interesting. I enjoyed the humor and the possessed cape.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I need to get better at writing this and recording the audio journal earlier. It's not really necessary to wait so long because it is rare that eventful things happen to me late at night. I'll try to get better about that.