Thursday, October 5, 2017

October 5, 2017

 I forgot to mention that last night when I got home I called my friend, because I had missed his call during dinner. He was going out on the ship today and won't be back until May. By the time I got back to him he was on his way to meet his brother for dinner so we only got to talk for a little bit, but it's better than nothing.

This morning I opened at the library and I traded circulation some sharp pencils for some of their unsharpened ones so I had something to sharpen. I would say it was a fair trade. And I got to sharpen about sixty pencils, so I was happy.

I think overall I was still recovering from a lack of sleep because today felt like I was just trying to get to five o'clock. Most of my morning was spent upstairs. And a lot of that was spent finishing my Publisher picture editing to show what I think our library should do in terms of signage. I even went downstairs a couple times to take pictures so I could add signs on top of them. I spent way more time on it than I should have but I think I'm done now. Unless another idea comes to me.

I also briefly looked at the future event scheduling system (which looks a lot better than the current one) and I started looking into my fake news presentation. I only have a little over a month to get that sorted out. And I've got less than a month to figure out my conference presentation. The stress level will be slowly ramping up over the next month. Can't wait.

Two things broke the monotony of the day. The first was five minutes after my boss told me I was in charge of the library because she was going to lunch and the director and assistant director were gone. And then the power in the entire building blinked out. Thankfully it quickly came back on and everything went back to normal. It could have been much worse.

The second thing was a bunch of teenagers playing tag throughout the library. I talked to one or two of them a couple times, one of the other librarians talked to a couple, and the teen librarian spoke to them, but they kept it up. I eventually had a walkthrough and tracked them down. I caught one girl heading up the stairs and she was trying to ignore my presence so I ended up having to say “Hey, come down here,” and I felt really old. I then ran into the whole group of them and was able to talk to them and tell them they needed to stop. One of the kids I have met before because he was hanging out with the two teen sisters we have had issues with over the past couple of months upstairs. He's a super friendly kid and seems to have a decent head on his shoulders, he just needs to be careful of his company. He introduced himself again and I shook his hand but held onto it and continued the handshake a little longer so I could talk to him without him walking off. It felt like a very dad move, but it worked.

And that was my day at work. At least the broad overview of it. It was a very long/slow day and I would have preferred to just stay home and take an eight hour nap.

On my way home I stopped by Target to get more cheese sticks and they still don't have the big package so I had to get the small one again. This time I bought three, just in case I don't make it back to the store this weekend. I also bought some Beyond Meat chicken strips. At some point I want to try their burger but they only have it at one of the grocery stores. I also thought the chicken would go well with my dinner. When I got home I roasted broccoli and carrots and scrambled some eggs and made the chicken. I didn't mix it together but that will be my dinner on Saturday. I also thought after the fact that I should have made some brown rice but it worked out without the rice. I'm not sure how I feel about the chicken. It wasn't bad but I think I've had better. I also don't know that my body appreciates soy that much, so over the last year I've kind of gotten away from fake meat.


After dinner I played Terraria and watched YouTube videos. Once again I made it through yesterday's videos but still have a lot from today. I should be able to catch up this weekend. Maybe. I kind of wish I could do a mini-hibernation over the weekend and wake up rejuvenated on Monday. I don't foresee that happening.

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