March 2, 2017

 I woke up at three o'clock in the morning again because of my throat. I'm kind of tired of three o'clock in the morning.

I woke up for real around 7:00ish when my alarm went off so I could get ready and go get my haircut. The lady who cuts my hair had written my appointment down wrong, however, so I ended up not going in until 10:30, not 9:00. It would have been nice to get another hour or two of sleep but I can't complain because that is her first appointment mistake with me in three decades. That's not a bad record. And I've forgotten my appointment at least a few times over the years so I am far from perfect. It also gave me time to eat breakfast, so that was nice.

I left the house a little early so I could go to Walgreens and get some more medicine and cough drops. And then I got my hair cut. It was overdue so I'm glad I was able to finally get it done.

I went to work at noon and it was a long freaking day. As the hours passed by I came more and more convinced that maybe my current illness is less cold and more allergies. My nose was running almost constantly and I had a perpetual feeling of needing to sneeze. It was exhausting trying not to sneeze. By the end of the night I had a headache, I imagine from the constant sniffing all day long. The back of my mouth where my wisdom teeth used to be also hurt, I assume from breathing through my mouth all day because my nose was congested. The cool air passing over my gums was not a good thing. I took something specifically for allergies near the end of the night when my cold stuff had worn off so we'll see if that does anything to help. If it does I'll be going the allergy route from here on out and see if I can get passed this. I'm kind of over it.

My day at work was once again uneventful. I spent pretty much all of my day, when I wasn't helping the occasional patron, working on my tutorial. I brought my laptop today so I could actually do things and I accomplished quite a bit. I believe I finished all of my slides and got them added into my video editing software. I think the goal will be to read the script all the way through and then cut it up and adjust the length of each slide and the transitions within slides to match what I'm saying. It would probably be easier to just advance through the slides as I'm talking but then I couldn't do the transitions I want and it is kind of hard to read a script and run a slideshow at the same time. We'll see how it goes. I might get frustrated enough with trying to match things up that I'll go back and do it all together. And then there are the subtitles. I'm going to try using YouTube's subtitle editor after I upload the video, to type in and align the subtitles with my script. If it works out it will be quicker than making a subtitle file.

And that was pretty much my day. The only eventful thing was tonight when a young gentleman knocked a young lady to the ground and was laying on top of her. This happened in an aisle out of sight but I heard the commotion and rolled back a little bit in my chair so I could see them and asked them both to stand up, which they did. It appeared to just be a more physical form of flirting. I think they were part of the younger group of people, who used to come to the library every week but then were asked to take a break after they got a little too rambunctious, but are now back. At least I think they're back. There were a lot of younger people around the library today and there were several books out of place in the stacks, which was kind of the calling card of this group. That and putting stacks of books in the restrooms, which I don't believe happened tonight.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. It would be nice if I could sleep through the night but I'm not going to hold my breath. Tomorrow I will probably continue to work on my tutorial. I also have a meeting with my former practicum supervisor to talk about our conference presentation. I'm looking forward to the weekend. It is going to be busy but at least I won't be in public and can sniff my runny nose