October 21, 2017

 I woke up at 6:30AM this morning after a solid six hours of sleep. Six hours is not enough.

I ended up getting to work early because the traffic was favorable. When I got to work I counted the drawer, refilled my DVD display, and counted magazines. When we opened I was on desk for two hours. I was kind of on desk the whole day but that's how the weekends are when there are only two people in the department. I spent the morning working on the conference presentation. I added more to the notes and looked over the slideshow trying to run through what I would say in my head.

I ate lunch up in the cubicle. The teen librarian is also working this weekend and she was upstairs so we talked for a little bit before going to our respective cubicles and watching things while we ate. I ended up watching the latest Ark video from Neebs and the guys twice, because it was funny.

On a walkthrough after lunch I actually asked a patron if he was finding everything alright, and he wasn't, so I got to try and help him, but we didn't really have anything he was looking for, so I wasn't much help.

The next quote I want to cross stitch is: “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” by Euripides.

I helped one of our regular patrons today with a couple things on the computer. Turns out I'm great at resizing images and creating two columns in Google Docs.

I continued looking at the conference presentation this afternoon but I probably spent more time reading stuff for the fake news presentation. I found a Pew Research Center study called The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online and I read about half of the overview. It was twenty-seven pages long so that's not bad. It had some interesting things to think about and it led to a rabbit hole of other studies and articles.

There was a brief emergency this afternoon when one of the circulation workers started having trouble with her eyes. They called up to the desk because she wanted to go to the emergency room and weren't sure of the procedure. We weren't either. I was pretty sure I wasn't allowed to drive her because it was a weekend and I was in charge of the whole building. But I wasn't entirely sure. I can vaguely remember maybe learning about it at some point but I couldn't find any reference to it in any of our notebooks or in the online documents. I made the call to have the assistant give her a ride while I continued looking for the information. Before the assistant could take her, however, she called her doctor who told her it was probably an ocular migraine, and not too long after that her vision cleared up enough that she decided she was able to drive herself home. I ended up emailing my boss about it and asking her what the procedure actually is just so I can know in the future.

I think I've had a few ocular migraines before. In my case I get tunnel vision and all of my peripheral vision is bright and shimmery. I have always equated them to excitement and/or not breathing enough, but I'm not sure. The last one actually happened at the library, I think on a weekend. I was sitting at the desk staring at the computer when I realized I had completely lost my peripheral vision. It's kind of scary.

A little girl came up to the desk this afternoon and asked if we had any cookies. That is the secret question for the ninth graders and she didn't look like a ninth grader. She said her older sister was a ninth grader but was too shy to come up to the desk. It was funny because when I told her what her sister's options were (a bag, book, or candy), she went over to her middle sister, who also appeared to be shy because she wouldn't come over to the desk, and the middle sister told her to pick the candy for their older sister.

Tonight when I got home I ate leftovers for dinner, watched a few YouTube videos, a little bit of a livestream, and then I played Rise of the Tomb Raider. I continue to make progress. I ended up calling it a night when the game crashed on me. It crashed the last time I played, too. It crashed almost immediately when I started it tonight but after closing my browser window that game ran fine. I'm not sure what the issue was the second time. I've heard that there are some game, Minecraft for example, that will occasionally keep storing stuff in memory and if you play too long the memory will fill up and cause a crash. I don't know if that is a thing or if I'm even remembering it correctly, but it's the explanation I'm leaning toward just so I have something to blame it on.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed because it is 12:42AM and it is becoming a struggle to keep my eyes open and not yawn.