I slept nearly nine hours last night and I woke up before my alarm
went off. That's kind of the best way to start the day. With the
rest of my morning I watched a livestream and clicked around the
internet before getting ready, eating lunch, and going to work.
When I got to work I learned about the latest incident report
regarding the guy who has been starring in so many of the incident
reports lately, like possibly punching an employee and having
confrontations with another patron. This morning there was
apparently a really loud commotion in the second floor men's room.
Loud enough that it was heard all the way over at our desk, which is
on the other side of the library. My boss and the other librarian
working headed over there and arrived about the same time the
assistant director, administrative assistant, and head of maintenance
came out of the office. And then the patron came out. The assistant
director went to talk to him and he said he was the only one in the
restroom. When they went to check the restroom one of the soap
dispensers had been ripped out of the wall and one of the toilet
paper dispensers was on the ground and looked like it had been stood
on until it came off the wall, which was probably the source of the
loud noise heard at the reference desk. And, even though multiple
people on multiple floors of the library heard all of this noise and
this patron was the only one in the restroom and he was seen leaving
the restroom immediately following the noise, that is apparently not
proof enough that he damaged the restroom. It's like he wants to get
in trouble and we keep just missing his attempts.
I didn't work on my next presentation at all today but I was
productive in other things. I started and finished writing
descriptions for next semester's classes and workshops. I also
finished writing the standard procedures for tech classes and tech
drop-ins. I printed out forty-five brochures and used the folding
machine upstairs to fold them. On one of my walkthroughs I was
stopped by someone in circulation asking for brochures (which I just
mentioned), I was stopped by the head of the youth services
department and asked if I could point out the troublesome incident
report patron because we're really the only department that has had
to deal with him (so I pointed him out), and I was stopped by the
head of circulation to talk about a damaged homebound book. It was
an active walkthrough. I also looked up perler bead patterns for an
upcoming craft night and starting reading a couple different
articles. I needed a little break from presentations so I feel good
about today.
After work I stopped at my Mom's house to help her scan some things.
We used her printer to scan and save the files to a memory card,
which we then plugged into her computer and uploaded to whatever
website she was uploading them to. Then I helped her carry in all
her plants on the front porch. She has a lot of plants and some of
them were heavy enough that my back started going out on the last
one. But now they're inside and I don't need to worry about them for
awhile.
I got home a little after ten o'clock, moved my own plant into my
garage (and hopefully that will be good enough for now), ate a snack,
clicked around the internet, finished watching the South Park
livestream, and now I'm finishing this.
It was a good day. And hopefully tomorrow I can make some decent
progress on my next presentation. Fingers crossed.
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