May 30, 2017

I'm tired. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night and today was a long day.

When I got to work this morning I did opening things, minus sharpening pencils. I figured we had a decent amount and maybe someone later this week will sharpen some. My normal pencil sharpening time was spent handling the emails we got over the holiday weekend.

My first hour on the desk flew by and then it was time for my presentation. I packed up the laptop, grabbed the projector, got the key to the car I reserved, and headed to the senior center. I set up in a small room and presented a large group of five people. I seemed to be competing with chair yoga, which is obviously very hard to compete with. Those that did attend my presentation seemed to appreciate me being there and asked several questions. Two of them even went straight from the presentation back to the library to sign up for summer reading. That may have been their plan all along but I can at least take credit for not scaring them off.

The rest of the day just kind of happened. I spent a lot of it hot, even without my jacket on. I'm not a fan of being hot and sweaty when I'm not engaged in activities that should result in me being hot and sweaty.

I added more books to my display and more audiobooks to my other display. I tweaked my presentation for tomorrow and put a little effort into my presentation for next week. I'll be able to focus more on that after tomorrow. The assistant director said that time is going to be tight and was wondering how long my presentation was going to be. I said it could be short. My first presentation at an all-staff meeting was delayed three months I think because we weren't added into the agenda and then there was a break or something. I don't know. I was a little worried he was going to cut my presentation, so telling me not to take too long was a bit of a relief. I've put too much effort into this presentation to have it delayed and have to worry about it for another month or more.

I also printed off more scavenger hunt brochures and used the folding machine to fold a different set of brochures. I had a minor printing mishap with the scavenger hunt brochures and they started spitting out upside down and it took me fifteen or so before I could figure out how to stop the copy machine. It was annoying. But I got it sorted out and all is well.

I had my evaluation today which went alright. I am not failing anything, which is nice, and I'm doing well enough that I got a tiny raise. I think it equals out to about $600 over the course of the year, which might not seem like much to a six-figure salary person but I'm definitely okay with it.

We signed a lot of people up for summer reading today. And we are running low on chocolate. The teen librarian was going to buy the next round but she wasn't going to have time this week and even with two-day delivery on Amazon it wouldn't get here in time. So I am going to take a long lunch tomorrow and pick some more up and give her the receipt so she can turn it in. Saving the day. Thank you.

I signed up a lady and three of her kids for summer reading. On the second kid when I was asking about birth date she said it was the same because they were twins. I replied “Oh, that's easy”, referring to already knowing the date to enter. And she replied “Oh, it wasn't easy.” I thought that was pretty funny.

Other things probably happened at work but then it was five o'clock and I got to go home. For dinner I made pasta and threw in fake hamburger, corn, diced tomatoes, beans, and a little bit of vegetable broth. This is similar to something I used to make but it is different because I also threw in fresh green onion, garlic, and cilantro. So it was kind of like cooking. And it tasted good, which is what's important.

Tonight I practiced my presentation, don't tell my boss. I'm consistently around six or seven minutes, which means it will probably be closed to five tomorrow when I get up there and blackout and have no idea of what's coming out of my mouth. There should be no worry of me taking too much time.

I also watched YouTube videos and when I made it through those I switched back to rewatching some of the Cali Roots festival. Right now I'm watching Jurassic Five's performance. I haven't though about them in years and they've still got it.

And now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can hopefully get to bed before eleven o'clock. Getting up in front of people to present twice tomorrow is going to be exhausting.