April 11, 2017

 I forgot to mention yesterday that according to my audio journal count, yesterday was the 100^th day of the year. That's a lot of days. And I have recorded an audio journal for each one of them. Not bad.

This morning I woke up, ironed my pants for the rest of the week, and did all the other usual stuff before going to work.

I parked on a side street and as I walked away from my car a stranger in a truck stopped, got my attention, and asked if my headlights shut off automatically. How cool is that? Nice people still exist. I told him that they did and thanked him for checking.

Further along the sidewalk I passed a lady who was humming to herself. We exchanged hellos and kept on walking. I few seconds later I heard her break into full-on singing. The singing was pretty good but the fact that she was so in her own little world was fantastic.

When I got to the library I did all the usual opening stuff, including sharpening pencils until the sharpener overheated and died. Love that sharpener.

I started a new personalized reading list today. I thought it was going to be easy because the patron provided a lot of detail. And then one book into it I looked at the request again and saw that they wanted large print books. Good grief. Large print is the worst. It made the list incredibly hard and ultimately inferior. They listed several books that they liked and after finding over a hundred readalikes (just a rough, probably low, estimate) we only had one of them in large print. It sucked. By the end of the day I was able to finish it but I wasn't very happy with it.

I took two or three months off from our Staff Picks display but on my hour break between desk duty I went and found some books. Rather than recycling books I've already pulled I broke out the list I've been making of books I want to read. I think I got some good ones.

On my last two hours at work I was on desk and took that time to finish the personalized reading list and I worked on my Twinery stuff a little bit. I really wish I had a better idea of what to do with Twinery as a whole because there is so much potential. I just need a good story and some motivation.

When I got home I roasted asparagus to go with my leftover pasta. Roasted asparagus is way better than sauteed asparagus. I drizzled just a little bit of olive oil on it, sprinkled some garlic powder and lemon pepper over the top, and cooked it for ten minutes at 425 degrees. And I say that just for future me in case I want to do it again and forget the specifics. It was so good. It didn't really taste like asparagus, it was just really freaking good. The stalks were crispy and the tips were just a little bit crunchy.

I have spent my night watching 13 Reasons Why. Fucking Jeff. He was a cool guy, I liked him so much. The thought hadn't even occurred to me that he wasn't in the present. One thing I also just realized is how they distinguish the past and present with facial injuries. You can tell past Clay from present Clay because present Clay has a big cut on his forehead. And later on, present Alex has bruises on his face. The injuries themselves are really obvious but using them to differentiate between two periods of time is subtle. Or at least subtle to me because I was oblivious to it. But I like it. Also, I'm very much Clay. My high school experience was vastly different than his, thankfully, but there are so many relatable things. Which doesn't help my emotional state. I'm going to finish the eleven episode tonight and hopefully finish the last two tomorrow if Chipotle night doesn't go too long.

Now I'm going to finish the episode and then record my audio journal. And then go to bed. Because that is the best way to end the day.