February 8, 2017

 Last night I had the oddest experience with a dream. It was sometime in the middle of the night and I needed to go to the bathroom but didn't want to get out of bed so I kept ignoring it and going back to sleep. But then, in whatever dream I was having I kept making a point of going to the restroom. This happened multiple times until I finally gave up and went to the bathroom in real life. It was just so weird that after ignoring the physical signs, my mind took over my dream and made my dream-self make several trips to the bathroom until I finally got out of bed in real life. Interesting.

Today was a fairly uneventful day at work, which is good because I never got around to taking notes. The majority of my day, whether I was on desk or off, was spent working on my homebound lists. I nearly finished, which is good because time is running out.

I signed up for an e-course about creating online tutorials today. I guess the library is interested in creating tutorials, both for the patrons and for internal training, and it was suggested that I take the lead on that. So, yay. It does involve posting to discussion threads and creating a sample tutorial, but as far as I know there aren't any grades, and it only lasts four weeks. It already feels like it will be a little overwhelming but anyone can survive four weeks.

To sign up for the class I needed my ALA membership number to get a discount so I logged into my grad school email account to get that information. And that turned out to be a good thing because I haven't logged in for months, never really think about it actually. Other than needing to email my old practicum supervisor to see how everything turned out with the assessment project and the scavenger hunt. Well, she actually emailed me just yesterday to see if I would want to submit a presentation proposal with her to a conference for the scavenger hunt project. What are the odds? I almost logged in yesterday but wasn't able to get the department credit card until today to sign up for the class. It's just really good timing. I'm not really into the idea of presenting but it would be good for my resume. And the experience would be good. I'm going to roll with it and we'll see if the proposal is accepted.

I watched the thirty-eight minute video about driving the Prius because we will be taking that to the thing on Friday. I probably didn't need to watch the whole thing but I had the time. I also sped it up a little bit so it wasn't quite thirty-eight minutes long. It was both informative and boring. Not only was it about what is different when driving a Prius, it was also also about how to drive in general. Turns out the accelerator makes it go, the brake makes it stop, and when driving in the snow or ice, it might be slippery.

We had our department meeting this afternoon and it went well. We started by talking about the book we are slowly reading through about communicating better. Then we talked about random department and library things, like new policies and other things I can't remember. There was a lot of digression throughout which made it hard to keep track over everything we covered. The meeting ended with a presentation from the teen librarian about interacting with teens. It was perfect timing because she actually came to our meeting immediately following having to kick five teens out of the library for a week because they have consistently been a nuisance for the past year. The last straw today was playing with one of the wheelchairs. One of the kids was pushing another around who was pretending to be mentally disabled. Our future, everyone. Anyway, the presentation was good. Way more informative than the Prius video, and provided some interesting context for how to view teens and our interactions with them.

Following the meeting I briefly talked with two of the other librarians about relationships and random other things before I called it a day. After work I swung by Chipotle and then headed to my Mom's house. The food was nothing special but most of the videos I had went over pretty well. My mom actually had some solid laughs at some of them. Which included laughing at the Grace Helbig video I showed, which is rare.

After all that we talked for awhile, I picked out some of the magnets my sister made, and then I headed home a little after eight o'clock. I spent the rest of my night catching up on YouTube videos and clicking around the internet. I feel I'm very close to buying a new fountain pen. I want the slate gray version of the lime green one I currently use on a daily basis. And I want to get a burgundy ink for it. I have looked into it in the past and it came back again yesterday. In the past few days I have bought two new pairs of pants (which I really needed), a second green jacket (because I really like my green fleece jacket and by the time I need a new one they won't have it anymore), and a desk-mounted microphone stand (so I can move my microphone out of the way when I'm not using it). It has been awhile since I've purchased anything outside of food and gas, so I'm definitely in that splurge mode at the moment. We'll see if I can ride it out. I'm not too sure.

It is now almost 11:30PM and I need to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I don't work until noon tomorrow, so hopefully I can get to bed early enough to actually get a full night of sleep.