April 10, 2017

 This morning when I went to work I restocked my DVD display and then helped our volunteer with a shifting project in the large print. My boss wanted us to make every shelf have twenty-four inches of books. I made it through the non-fiction and the volunteer made it through one range of shelves and we realized it was going to turn into a much larger project than originally thought. She ended up with an entire extra shelf of books, which meant we would at least have to shift every single shelf in the rest of the large print section to compensate for that extra shelf. And it would probably only increase as we went. That seemed a bit excessive because the plan was to move all the large print books upstairs in the next week or two.

I called an audible and decided it would make more sense to just measure every row of books and do the math to figure out how much shelf space that would take if we wanted twenty-four inch rows. The volunteer started on this while I went up to convince my boss. And it turned out she wasn't too invested in the shifting project, she just wanted to know how many shelves were needed. So I went back down and helped the volunteer measure all the books. After all the addition and division we ended up with 163.5 shelves. Upstairs we have 176 shelves available, so we're good. And we're filling two displays with books, so we're actually more than good. It was also nice only shifting a few hundred books rather than a few thousand.

When I was on desk throughout the day I worked on my class that is coming up on Thursday. I made a handout, which is really just a list of links that I think are useful resources. I also made a couple more starter projects just to try out different things and show off some of the things that are possible. I still don't have anyone signed up I'll at least be kind of ready if someone does.

I had two free hours this afternoon and spent that time reading the book chapter and the policy for our upcoming staff meeting. It feels like we just had one. Time is really flying by.

On my way home from work I mailed a bill and got gas. Hopefully my credit card number was not stolen. Again.

When I got home I sauteed asparagus with a little bit of garlic to have with my leftover pasta. Cooking with oil in a pan is a pain in the ass. It goes freaking everywhere. I don't like it. It's so messy. The asparagus turned out well but I think next time I might go with the oven.

Tonight I watched two more episodes of 13 Reasons Why. I had to call it a night after two episodes because it is such an intense show. It's draining. One tragedy after another. And it makes it harder knowing Hannah's outcome and that there is nothing anyone can do about it. This is why I tend to stay away from heavy stuff and stick with comedies and action movies. I'm too empathetic.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal and then watch some YouTube videos before bed. I open tomorrow. Yay.