October 19, 2017

 This morning I woke up at 5:30AM, got ready, and left my house at seven o'clock. It's still dark that early in the morning. I left my house that early because I wanted to make it to the library by 7:30AM. Turns out there is a lot less traffic at that time of day and I ended up getting to the library at 7:12AM. I parked in the parking lot, because it was super early, and then went up to the third floor so I could run through the presentation a couple times. That was helpful and I'm glad I got there early.

Around 7:35AM I packed up and headed to the school to talk to a bunch of ninth graders. I connected the iPad to a new 80” TV, which was a nice surprise because I was expecting an old projector. I had three presentations to give and there was probably twenty minutes or so between them and spent that time reading a psychology reference book I found on a shelf.

The first class wasn't very enthused to be there and I'll attribute a lot of that to the fact that it was still really early. Only a few of them had library cards and none of them had questions, but I got a few laughs out of them so I'm counting it as a success.

The second class was a lot better. At least ninety percent of them had library cards, they laughed more, and they had several questions. I opened the question portion by asking “Does anyone have questions about the library... or life in general?” and then one of the kids asked me what the meaning of life was. I walked into that. I told him it's to be good to people. He seemed satisfied.

The third class was similar to the first. They weren't very engaged, most of them didn't have library cards, and I think I only got two questions. The weirdest part was in the middle of the presentation when the morning announcements went off. All at once the kids stood up, turned to the flag, and started saying the Pledge of Allegiance. A few kids did not participate, either because they were too cool or because they were on the football team and were doing it in solidarity with the NFL. I'm leaning toward the too cool for school explanation.

After the last presentation I headed back to the library and got there a little before ten o'clock. I stopped by the third floor to hand off the candy and iPad to the teen librarian who was giving the next presentation, and told her how it went. She was a little annoyed that I may have gotten more laughs than she did.

The rest of the day kind of disappeared in a haze of tiredness. I caught up on emails, looked at stuff from the virtual conference yesterday, kinda sorta worked on my two presentations a little bit, had three walkthroughs, refilled my DVD display, emailed a survey for the last adulting class, emailed the patrons from the 3D printing class to let them know their printed things were ready to pick up, and I read some library-related articles.

I got off at four o'clock because I work this weekend and on the way home I stopped by my Mom's house to pick up my Qdoba leftovers from last night. I usually close on Thursday night so I leave my leftovers so I can eat them for dinner on Thursday. I forgot I wasn't closing tonight. So I grabbed those and headed home.

I watched some YouTube videos and then took a nap before dinner. With the rest of my night I watched YouTube videos, an episode of Eureka, a livestream, and played Rise of the Tomb Raider. I'm beginning to wonder how long the game is. I think the percentages I was seeing were related to the specific area I was currently in, not my progress on the entire game. I could speed-run it but I like finding all of the secrets.

It is now almost one o'clock in the morning because good grief. I'm going to record my audio journal and then go to bed. Tomorrow I've got a haircut but other than that my schedule is open. I would really like to put some time into my presentation for next week. My partner put up the beginnings of a slideshow today, so progress is being made.