Friday, September 15, 2017

September 15, 2017

 This morning I woke up early because I went to bed at a decent hour, and I had an hour to do whatever before getting ready for work and eating a nice ten o'clock lunch.

My day at work was pretty much filled with working on my homebound lists. It took far too long but I was able to finish by the end of the day. It is very time consuming trying to come up with new and interesting books my patrons might like each month. I didn't get to the pulling portion so I'll need to do that on Monday and Tuesday and hope that the books I have picked will still be available. I'm pretty good at choosing books that are checked out by the time I get around to pulling them.

I went to dinner today at three o'clock, which was fun. Lunch at ten o'clock, dinner at three o'clock. Living the dream. Later in the day my boss mentioned that she didn't know why she had me down for a three o'clock dinner.

And speaking of scheduling, our timesheets were due today and it came out that I hadn't taken an hour and a half off the week leading up to the weekend I worked. I tried to make the excuse that I didn't have to do any work-related stuff during lunch that Saturday, so really I didn't work nine and a half hours that day, just eight and a half hours. That didn't work out, so now I have to make up time and a half for an hour and a half, which means I'm going to lose two hours and fifteen minutes next week. That's annoying.

My favorite moment of the day was when we were talking about a mouse in the basement and the possibility of getting a library cat. I immediately said I couldn't change the litter box because I was pregnant. The women I work with did not believe me. Something about being a man or something.

My second favorite moment was the local magazine coming out with our adulting article. We didn't know it was coming out today so it was a surprise. Another surprise was that there was a full-size picture of me helping a “patron” (who was actually one of the other librarians), as well as three other small pictures with me in them. The photographer took a lot of pictures that day but I wasn't expecting to be so prominently featured. I'm just glad we weren't on the cover. That would have been overwhelming. Right after they showed up at the library I got a text from a friend about the magazine. This is like my fifteen minutes of fame, but only among the people I already know. No one outside the library or my friends and family are going to recognize me from the magazine. I'm okay with that.


When I got home I made some popcorn and watched YouTube videos. I also started writing this and it was a mistake to do it while watching videos because it has taken me far too long to write this. But now I am done so I can record my audio journal and go to bed. It will again be after eleven o'clock by the time I get to bed but it won't be too much later.

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