October 9, 2017

 I took notes today. That should make this go much quicker. Depending on how distracted I get.

Waking up this morning sucked and I yawned so many times throughout the morning at work. I tried to help myself wake up a little bit by driving to work with the windows down and the music up. The crisp air helped but the yawning was still a thing.

I traded more pencils with circulation so I had something to sharpen. I also had to go out to secure some plastic bags over parking signs. The signs usually indicate library vehicle parking but we wanted to free up those spots today. They had bags over them but it was a windy day (one of them had already blown off) and my boss wanted me to secure them. She handed me some rubber bands and a few paperclips. I secured the two that were still on and had to get a step ladder to put the third bag over the sign so I could secure it. The signs are probably nine feet tall, which is ridiculous because that makes them really easy to miss when you pull in with a car.

Not long after getting back in my boss had me resize a poster for her. She made it 8.5” x 11” and wanted it to be 11” x 17”, so I resized it really quick and printed it off for her. Then I helped the occasional patron. The first two patrons that came up looking for books, several minutes apart and completely independent from one another, both wanted books with the same call number (but different authors). It was much easier finding the second book because I knew exactly where to look. Another patron wanted a book that was listed as non-circulating and in technical services. I called up there and the technical services manager said it had actually been taken down to the director's office last week. So my boss called the director and she wasn't using it so she brought it over. We checked it out as a reference book, which means he can only have it for one week and there are big overdue fees, but I don't think it was technically a reference book. Oh well, incentive to bring it back on time.

With the rest of my morning I read fake news stuff. After lunch I had two free hours so I went upstairs to the cubicle so I could listen to music and read the next chapter in the book that we are reading for our department meeting. I feel like this book would be much more effective if we didn't stretch it out so much. We only read one chapter a month and for awhile there, maybe over the summer, we stopped reading it. I have forgotten far more than I actually remember.

When I was back on desk I had a patron call asking about one thing, which I helped her with, but then she seemed to get distracted and started telling me about today's Dr. Phil episode. It was interesting.

In my last hour of work I continued looking at fake news stuff and then I messed with the Spring schedule. I added in tech drop-in dates and then updated the printed schedule I have. I also added in the off-site classes that the one-on-one tech lady does. This semester is flying by. As is life.

For dinner I made a repeat of the last thing I made, minus the fake chicken. I roasted the rest of my broccoli and carrots, made rice, scrambled some eggs, and threw in the last little bit of cheese I had. The cheese isn't really that noticeable because there is so little of it but I'm glad I made it through all of it this time.

After dinner I played more Rise of the Tomb Raider. It is such an easy came to get sucked into because there are so many side quests and random things to find. I went from 14% complete to 24% complete. Progress.

And now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I am hoping to be less tired tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.