June 13, 2017

 It's after 11:30PM right now so let's do this.

I opened this morning and sharpened pencils until the sharpener betrayed me. Throughout the morning I worked on the personalized reading list I started the other day and at some point today I was able to finish it. I also had an ongoing chat about an ILL. It lasted a couple hours and I learned more about the status definitions for ILLs. So it was a productive two hours on desk. I posted all the definitions to our department blog just in case anyone else is as confused by the different statuses.

I also signed several people up for summer reading and gave out a bunch of summer reading prizes. At one point I had a line of teenagers at the desk because they all stopped by after the teen program this afternoon. A lot of nerdy teens with gardens in a jar. Way better than angry old patrons.

The last part of my day was spent playing with Excel after making a brief attempt to work on my homebound lists. The Excel thing was an attempt to improve my homebound spreadsheets, so it was somewhat productive. The goal became figuring out a way to auto-hide or unhide the rows at the top of the spreadsheet that have all the patron's information that is good to have but mostly unnecessary. I found out a way to do it on the mouse-over of an image or on a button click. I got both to work once and then they didn't until Excel crashed and I restarted it. Not sure why it started working after that. I think I like the idea of the button click, after all the time I spent trying to figure out the mouse-over thing. I'll mess with it some more in the future.

After work I came home and read a whole bunch. I read for a little over an hour, took a break for dinner, and then read the rest of the night. That ended up being about five and a half hours worth of reading tonight. Good grief. But I finished the book that is overdue with a hold on it, so now whoever has a hold on it can actually get it and I can stop feeling bad for it being two days overdue. I can now focus on the other book I've been reading as well as the new book I picked up today that was just released. I put a hold on it a few weeks ago because it was the sequel to a novella that had just won an award. This one is also a novella, so it is nice and short. Also, I need to finish listening to Ready Player One. So much to read, so little time.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed because I'm freaking tired.