As expected, it took forever for me to fall asleep last night. Late
afternoon naps aren't always the best decision.
I woke up this morning at seven o'clock but stayed buried under my
covers because my noes was cold and I didn't want to get out of bed.
But eventually I did, and did all the usually morning stuff before
going to work.
Most of my day was spent working on my presentation. I actually
started putting the slides together today so I am feeling slightly
better about things. I'm still not feeling great about it, but
slightly better is a good start. I had three free hours after lunch
and I thought I'd be able to go up to the cubicle and really focus
but another librarian was up there reading a book for a discussion so
I was stuck at the desk with a lot of distractions. I should have
made a lot more progress today.
The last hour and a half or so of my day was lost to an incident that
ended with a police report, so that was fun. It started when the
recent star of so many incident reports (potentially punching a staff
member, destroying our bathroom) walked by and kicked a twelve year
old sitting in a chair. The kid went and told his dad who went to
confront the guy. That conversation got heated and eventually led to
the guy walking out of the library, followed by the dad. This led to
the dad chasing the guy for half a mile before losing track of the
guy.
One of the other librarians and myself followed both of them outside
but never caught up with them so we went back inside and hung out
with the kid. One of the other patrons knew his mother and called
her. I talked to the kid about school and video games until the
mother showed up and she eventually got the dad to come back to the
library and they called the police because they wanted to file a
report.
We sat around and waited for the cop to show up and then waited while
he took the statement of the kid and dad, and then he talked to us
for a little bit. It sounds like because there weren't any witnesses
there really isn't much that can be done from a legal point of view.
All the guy has to do is say he didn't kick the kid. But, I think
this might have been the final straw necessary to at least
temporarily ban the guy from the library. He is suspected of
punching a staff member, he has destroyed our bathroom, he has had
confrontations with other patrons, and now he's committed battery
against a kid. His behavior seems to be slowly escalating and I'd
like if he wasn't in the library when it reaches its seemingly
inevitable violent conclusion.
When I got home I did a lot of nothing. I ate the last of my
leftover pizza, watched YouTube videos and a livestream, clicked
around the internet, and farmed Halloween goodie bags in Terraria.
Somehow I made it through an entire Blood Moon and only got one
goodie bag. I call shenanigans. I also just realized the two
sunflowers near my lava trap were creating a buff that reduced enemy
spawn rates. Rookie move. I don't know what the percentage in
reduction was but I got rid of them just in case. I want to say I
notice an increase in the spawn rate but I think that is mostly
psychological.
Anyway, I'm tired and have a headache so I'm going to record my audio
journal and go to bed.
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