April 6, 2017

 Last night I went to bed around midnight and slept until my alarm went off at nine o'clock. Then I rolled over and napped until ten o'clock. It was great.

When I got to work I had a walkthrough and then had about three hours until I was on desk so I went down to “weed”. The quotes are because I only weeded two books. So in the 600+ books I didn't manage to get out of the single digits. Today I first looked over every single book to make sure they were all in decent shape. There were some that were a little beat up and I probably could have pulled them but I didn't. Then I went back over them individually, comparing them to my list to make sure everything was there. Anything that wasn't there I marked as “out” so I would know what to check later. Doing this I managed to find one book that had been deleted and somehow ended up back on the shelf. When I was on desk I looked up all the books I had marked as “out” and a handful of them were apparently “in” but hadn't circulated in awhile, which makes me think they may be lost.

I'm technically done weeding large print but need to go back and shift so there are twenty-four inches of books on every shelf. I forgot about that part but I can do that tomorrow. Or eventually.

My boss changed her mind on the layout of the oversize collection and asked me to shift them so I got a start on that tonight. I measured all of the books and divided that by the number of shelves she wanted filled to find out how many inches of books were needed on each shelf. I also took an inch off for each shelf that would only one book displayed on it, figuring the average book was an inch wide. This was important because I went from 22.5” on each shelf to 20.5”. Not a big difference but by the end of the range of shelves I would have been one shelf off, and that would be annoying. I didn't make it very far into the actual shifting because after starting I realized the 000s, 100s, and 300s (we don't have any 200s) were intermixed for some reason. I only noticed this after a few shelves and by the time I got them all sorted I had to stop because I was on desk.

I spent the rest of the night adding all of the tech classes and workshops to the official schedule. I didn't have descriptions for all of them but I at least got the rooms reserved. This is good because I ended up with one conflict and had to switch to the auditorium for one of the video game discussions. Who knows how many conflicts there would have been if I had waited longer.

When I got off work I went to the grocery store. It was a little busy for nine o'clock at night but still better than going at five o'clock. I got a bunch of vegetables, including asparagus, which I haven't had in a long time but figured I would give it a try. I also got cereal and almond milk because that sounded really good. And I had a bowl of Raisin Bran when I got home and it was really good.

I watched YouTube videos for awhile tonight and then ended up talking to my friend for about an hour on the phone. I haven't talked to him in awhile so it was good to hear from him. He's going out on the boat for five weeks so we caught up on things. Like the fact that his sister is pregnant. I still see her as a little kid, much like my other friend's sister who recently had a baby, so it is really weird to think of them as having kids. Time is weird.

It's now midnight and I need to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I don't work until eleven o'clock but I am meeting my old practicum supervisor at a coffee shop before that so we can work on our conference presentation. I'm just hoping that doesn't take too long so I have enough time to each lunch before work.