April 18, 2017

 This morning I woke up, got ready, and went to my eye appointment. My new eye doctor is an interesting dude. He's very animated but also kind of hard to understand because he's got a deep voice that sounds like it's coming out of his throat, not his mouth, and it sounds like his mouth is full of marbles. But he's nice and seems to know what he's doing so that's good.

He took a much more detailed look than the nurse practitioner did back in June (which makes sense because he's an eye doctor) but it just confirmed what the nurse practitioner said. And the remedy is the same, warm compresses and hot water in the shower. Maybe I should be more vigilant about it this time. But that is only supposed to speed up the process, it should clear on its own. It has been a thing for a year now though, so I'm not too sure home remedies will work. He said to give it a month (but again, it's already been a year) and if it doesn't get better the next step would be eye surgery, where I would got to another eye doctor who who cut the thing open and manually drain whatever is in the bump. I think that would involve a local anesthetic, I imagine in shot form, and that sounds kind of awful. So my fingers are crossed this is a successful month of hot compresses. I got the ball rolling tonight, now I just need to keep it going.

After the appointment I went home, ate lunch, and then went to work. The first thing I did went I got to work was put all the homebound bookmarks I printed out into their respective books. And then I was eventually on the desk. And then it was eventually time for tech drop-in. I wrote a sign on the mobile white board and put it down by one of the entrances. Then we sat in the room for an hour waiting. The volunteer wasn't able to make it so one of the other librarians was there as backup. She had a stack of books she was reading for a newspaper article she's writing and I started doing some research for a video game discussion. Then, about an hour after it started, our old curmudgeon of a patron stopped by. He initially had a couple tech-related questions but then it eventually transitioned into just random conversation. He told us about a landlord/tenant meeting he had gone to this morning, which provided a lot to talk about, and then we talked about road construction, like roundabouts and the weird crossover thing they're working on now. It was interesting. We learned a lot more about him, including his time working on electrical stuff in celebrity mansions in Florida. It sounds like he's definitely led an interesting life.

When the two hours were up I went to my Mom's house for my four o'clock dinner and then came back to work. I pulled books for my final patron and pulled another book for one of my other patrons because the book I put on hold for her didn't come in. There are three copies and two were supposed to be back by now but neither was. The problem with not charging seniors overdue fees is that some of them will take advantage of it. Some library employees take advantage of it, too. I think that is why fees exist. If they didn't the library would be lucky to keep a single book on the shelf.

I spent the rest of my night looking over stuff related to the scavenger hunt I made last summer for my practicum and thinking about how I wanted to do the presentation. I think we have forty-five minutes to speak (maybe) and I don't really have much to talk about. My former supervisor should have plenty to cover so maybe my lack of stuff is a good thing. I figure I'll just cover my thought process when coming up with questions, trying to cover the things I thought would be relevant to students, and making them go all over the library, so even if there wasn't a question about everything at least they would see everything. And then I can include some of the questions I came up with along with the pictures I took. So I've got some ideas floating around, I just need to makes some slides.

And we'll say that was my day. I also contacted the person who will be leading the resume workshop next month, because I was reminded of that yesterday, and helped the occasional patron. And probably some other stuff.

When I got off I came home, watched some YouTube videos, and now I'm writing this. And very soon, I'll be recording my audio journal. And then inevitably, sleep.