October 10, 2017

 We are in a bit of a cold snap here and it took awhile to find the motivation to get out from under the covers. But I found that motivation and eventually went to work.

I thought about taking notes today but it was kind of a slow day with not a lot going on. It was also extra quiet because the air conditioner wasn't on all day (due to the cold nature of the weather outside).

A lot of my day was spent reading articles that were library-related in one way or another. Most of them had some connection to fake news because I'm still coming up with ideas for my presentation. I also talked with my coworkers a lot. I wanted to hide upstairs so there weren't those distractions but that didn't really work out. So there was a lot of distraction.

I took a break from the article reading to restock my DVD display a few times and I even had to refill my second floor display, which is unexpected because I was not expecting to have to do that this month. Hence the use of the word “unexpected.”

In unfortunate news, I learned that over the weekend the newest librarian in our department was called a “whore” over the phone because she couldn't find the answer that the caller wanted. And second, one of the girls in circulation was punched in the back after we closed on Sunday night while walking away from the library. Based on the description of the puncher, it sounds like the guy who is in everyday, all day, who has a tendency to fall asleep, can be disruptive while at the computers, and can get to the point where he smells pretty bad. In the last week or so we have gotten very close to asking him to leave for the day based on the sleeping thing because we can't be spending half our day waking the same person up over and over again. But, if he does turn out to be the puncher, that would earn him at the very least a six month bad, possibly even a lifetime ban. I know patrons have received extended bans just for being verbally abusive, so I imagine physically attacking a library employee would have severe repercussions, as well as legal repercussions if the employee decides to press charges. The blog post about the incident was posted after admin had left for the day so we'll see what happens tomorrow.

John Green's new books, Turtles All The Way Down, came out today. I pre-ordered it ages ago when pre-ordering went live for it, and it was supposed to be delivered today. It even said out for delivery and was expected to arrive before 8:00PM. Well, it is now 8:55PM and the status has been changed to an estimated delivery between today and Thursday. What the hell? My plans for the evening were to eat dinner and then stay up way too late reading a book. I fulfilled the first part of that, and my dinner was very tasty, but then I fell back to watching YouTube videos and looking a planners and journals. I'm mildly annoyed because I've been waiting for this book. I would be less annoyed if they had been more realistic about the delivery date. And not said it was out for delivery all day when it clearly wasn't.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can get that out of the way, and then maybe play a little Rise of the Tomb Raider. I want to get to bed at a decent time because I have to wake up early to go get a flu shot. The new assistant said that she went this morning and they had run out. Hopefully that isn't the case tomorrow morning. I imagine I would find that mildly annoying.