August 22, 2017

 This morning I woke up and thought about reading a book because I have several checked out at the moment but instead I chose to go back to sleep. I'm okay with that decision.

It was back to business as usual at the reference desk today, which made it seem oddly quiet because we didn't have a million questions about the solar eclipse. It left so much time for other activities. But I didn't really accomplish much with that time. I worked on my tutorial throughout the day but I'm really just at the slide making phase so it doesn't really feel like much is happening.

We got probably the best reference question today from an old man in his 80s. He had a really loud voice, which made it better, because half the library could probably hear him. He walked up to the next with his walker and practically shouted “I have a question you wouldn't believe... anal penetration.” And then crickets could be heard as the librarian on desk and myself waited to see where he was going with that. It turns out him and his friends get together a few time a week to, as he put it, “drink coffee and lie to each other.” One of his friends brought up how turkey buzzards [vultures] eat dead animals by going through the back door, and the patron didn't believe it so he came to the library to ask us. I had to go on my walkthrough but the librarian at the desk looked for a solid ten or fifteen minutes and didn't find anything conclusive. Only at the library.

Tonight we had our first adulting class and I think it went pretty well. We had twenty-two people registered and fourteen showed up, and we're going with an overall attendance of sixteen because the teen librarian and myself sat in on the presentation and took notes. I think the presentation may have been a little broad and a little too technical at times, but overall I think it was good and the patrons seemed to get a lot out of it. Now I just need to find someone to teach the next class.

When I got home I ate a snack, watched YouTube videos, and started writing this. I open tomorrow, and that always sucks after closing, but I should be able to make it to bed by midnight if I don't get sidetracked before recording my audio journal. Last night I fell down an hour-long beatboxing championship rabbit hole. It was worth it but good grief.