July 24, 2017

 Today was a day. It went by pretty quickly.

When I got to work I spent the first part of my morning working on a personalized reading list. I got a decent start on it and then kind of got sidetracked the rest of the day and didn't get around to finishing it.

I counted a lot of prize drawing tickets. I still haven't caught up but I'm getting closer. Last week I printed four hundred tickets and I'm going to have to print more tomorrow. It's kind of crazy how many tickets we have printed off so far.

There was a minor PR nightmare over the weekend. It was about a presentation at the library that was not received very well. On the plus side, it wasn't our program, but people often assume anything that happens at the library is a library event. The presentation was on a touchy topic and it sounds like it could have been handled better. There were a few people at the event that were offended, including the one African American, but it seemed like most of the people who contacted the library weren't actually at the event. I wouldn't say you need to experience something firsthand to be offended by it. I would say that you should have a decent understanding of something before you decide whether or not you're offended. So many times people raise hell over something they did not experience. They hear something from a friend who knows someone whose sister went to a thing and said it was offensive. Or in the case of some of the people offended about the event at the library, they read half a description and decided it was offensive. I was not at the event, so I can't say one way or another whether or not it was handled well. More people should try that. Either way, the news came to talk to our director and they aired a story about it tonight. On another plus side, the reporter mentioned wanting to do a story on the adulting series. This thing is blowing up.

We had a little going away part for one of our assistants today. He graduated in May and his lease is up this month so he is moving back home while he looks for jobs. It sucks because he was a solid worker and he was fun to work with. We spent so much time on the nights we closed talking about video games. So it kind of sucks. They did interviews today and I think they have narrowed it down to two people so hopefully we won't be covering shifts too much longer.

After work I came home, ate dinner, watched YouTube videos, and then went to the grocery store. I wasn't planning on going tonight but we are celebrating my bosses birthday tomorrow and I said I would bring cherries. I also needed dinner stuff, so it was a good excuse to go. And I think tomorrow I'll be making stir fry for dinner. I'm looking forward to it.

When I got home I put my food away, caught up on washing dishes, and then watched livestreams. I think I'm' getting closer to pulling the trigger on Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. We'll see though. I feel like it is one of those games that I could easily hold off on, wait for the hype-train to pass, and never play it. Or, I could get in on it now, when it's huge and has a playerbase, and possibly have some fun with it while the community is still active. Decisions decisions.

It is now almost 12:30AM because it has taken me far too long to write this. Like more than two hours at this point. It's kind of ridiculous. I need to institute a no-video policy when writing my journal. It seems that as of late I have become increasingly distractible while writing these. It's getting out of hand.

Anyway, audio journal time. And then sleep.