September 13, 2017

 This morning I didn't feel as rested when I woke up but I still got a full night of sleep.

I came up with a random librarian comeback today. My boss said I couldn't use it on patrons. We'll see. The comeback is “I read books, not minds.” I think it's pretty good.

When I got to work I decided to keep track of how many pencils I sharpened. The final count: Seventy-seven. That's a lot of pencils. It felt very satisfying.

I was on desk for two hours after we opened and I did things. I think I ended up spending most of the time filling out a request form for the conference next month. It's kind of a formality because I'm presenting, so I kind of have to go, but it was a pain in the butt. Mostly because I had to pick other sessions at the conference that I want to go through. None of the sessions really sounded that appealing.

I also got really sidetracked by trying to figure out if I am still a member of KLA. I'm pretty sure I still am because I renewed my membership early this year for the last conference I presented at, but I determined that based on an old email. No matter what I tried I couldn't log into the site. I first had to reset my grad school email password (by going through the school website because I couldn't do it through Gmail). Then I tried resetting my KLA password but the reset link they sent me just linked me back to the login screen. I tried it multiple times and got the same result. It was frustrating and an incredible waste of time.

Before I went to lunch I worked on my tutorial a little bit. I think. I can't remember.

When I got back from lunch I had a meeting with my manager. It was our monthly catch-up meeting. I downplayed the amount of stress I am currently feeling. Because that's what I do.

After that I started working on the wi-fi tutorial. I'm not done with the event tutorial yet but I was avoiding it, and why not avoid it with another tutorial. That one is much simpler so I should be able to knock it out pretty quickly.

We had our department meeting this afternoon and it went well. I need to get better at writing kudos for people. In the beginning I wrote one for everyone each month. I have slacked off in recent months. The sit-down meeting ended a little before four o'clock but then we were supposed to spend the next hour merchandizing the stacks. Which meant straightening books and making sure the layout followed our guidelines. I did that for about ten minutes but then the teen librarian, who was covering our desk, had to go cover the desk in the children's room, so I took over the desk. It sucked a little because I could spend hours straightening books on the shelves and making everything line up nicely. I would make a kick-ass circulation page.

But instead I had to sit at the desk while everyone else got to straighten books. I spent most of my hour reading more about Papers, Please. I need to come up with some good discussion questions. And maybe play the game some more. Right now I'm watching the old Yogscast videos when they played an early version of the game. I'll be ready by tomorrow but I'm not there yet.

I also helped a patron find some books about grass, answered a few phone calls, and replied to a few emails. It was a productive hour.

After work I picked up Qdoba and headed to my Mom's for dinner. In terms of the food, dinner sucked. I split the bowl in half, because I only eat half (when they give me enough to divide it in half). I then ate about half of that (so a quarter) before I threw the rest down the sink. They had charred the diced veggies to the point that they were hard and crunchy. It wasn't good and I couldn't finish it. It was worse than nuts in brownies. I ate chips instead.

We watched videos after dinner and talked for awhile before I headed home. When I got home I ate some food because I was hungry, and then watched YouTube videos. It's just after nine o'clock and I am going to record my audio journal. Then I'll do some other stuff before bed. Possibly read up on Papers, Please. Possibly other things.