October 11, 2017

 Last night I woke a couple times and my feet were freezing. I usually sleep with my feet hanging off the end of the bed (but still under the covers) so I pulled them up from the edge, threw another blanket over the end of my bed, and I turned on my space heater. That's the first time I've had to do that since last winter but I think my house was somewhere around 62 degrees, which was obviously too cold for my feet.

I woke up a little earlier than normal so I could go get a flu shot before work. I got there at exactly 8:30AM but had to park in a spot off the street because the parking lot was full. And the one spot off the street had a big mud puddle right where I needed to step to get out of my car. I probably looking like an idiot getting out and later getting back into my car while trying to avoid the mud.

As for the shot itself, it took less than five minutes for the whole process. Unfortunately the nurse jabbed me like I had just broken up with her best friend. I could immediately feel it start to stiffen up and hurt. Which only increased throughout the day. Now it just feels like I got punched really hard.

I got to work really early so I ended up going upstairs and listening to music for awhile before I came back down to be on desk when we opened. I was on desk for two, very uneventful hours. I helped a patron with the microfilm, I answered one phone call, and I answered one question via chat. In between all of that I read some fake news stuff and got on a website, that looked like it was made in the '90s, about about the moon landing was faked. On the site, people who believe we landed on the moon are referred to as skeptics. I thought that was an interesting twist.

When I got off desk I had a couple hours free so I went upstairs to zone out with some music and be productive. And that happened. I started by getting slightly sidetracked by a conversation with the teen librarian. We talked about an upcoming outreach thing next week, some other random work stuff, and then just life stuff. It was a good talk. Then I went and worked on an outline for my fake news presentation. It is super basic right now but it is the start I needed. I'm feeling good about it.

After lunch I read library magazines until our staff meeting. In the meeting we talked about the book chapter we read, gave out kudos, talked about one of our policies, got an update on how to submit our plans for programs, and then talked about ideas, both big and small, for the future of the library. We each wrote down a few ideas on a piece of paper, then passed it to our left, built on the new ideas in front of us, passed to the left, and so on and so forth until we had expanded on the ideas of everyone else. And then we talked about some of them. It was a fairly productive and interesting discussion.

After the meeting I had a walkthrough which allowed me the chance to refill my DVD display. I also refilled the staff picks display, the bestsellers, and wrote down all the magazines that had been read, because we're keeping track of that right now. I then spent the rest of the hour talking to a fellow librarian about journals and planners, almost read a magazine, and copied a few pages about readers advisory for different genres from one of the magazines I had read earlier.

At six o'clock I went to Qdoba, and then headed to my Mom's house for dinner. We ate food, talked, watched YouTube videos, and at eight o'clock I headed home. My goal was to quickly knock this out and record my audio journal so I could start reading Turtles All The Way Down. By the way, that arrived today. Only a day late. Only.

It is now 9:40PM because I got distracted by videos, so I probably won't get very much reading done tonight. But I don't work until noon tomorrow and I will most likely wake up at a decent time so I should be able to read a little before work. I'm looking forward to it.