November 1, 2017

 Well, it's November already.

I was slow getting around this morning but I made it to work on time, and that's what is important. I spent my first two hours at work up in the cubicle working on my presentation. I assume I made progress but I can't really remember because I worked on it throughout the day and it all kind of blends together.

I was on desk for an hour after that and read an article about how news goes viral and it used a contagious virus outbreak as the model to explain it. One person gets it, shares it with their friends, who share it with their friends, and so on like a pyramid scheme. It was interesting.

After lunch I was on desk again and once again worked on my presentation. I learned about attention economics, which views attention as a scarce resource that is consumed by information, and it is a struggle in our age of information overload to keep people's attention. Makes sense.

I had a couple walkthrough and my second one lasted the whole hour because I ended up stopping and talking with the teen librarian who was handing out surveys. She really doesn't like it so I was telling her my technique of just handing it to people and giving as little explanation as possible so they don't have a chance to refuse. We ended up talking about a bunch of different things while we waited for patrons to come in, and most of our conversation was library related.

I sent in our request for tax forms today, because apparently tax season is fast approaching. It seems like we just did that.

I spent my last hour at work back upstairs working on my presentation. I need to finish up the history of fake news and then go into fact checking. And then I need to come up with what I actually want to say. Right now I'm just creating slides of things that I think I should talk about without any real idea of what I'm going to say. I'm just hoping I'm in the ballpark so I don't have to redo too much. My goal is to be done with the slides by Friday so I have plenty of time to work on a script.

When I got to my car after work I glanced in the rear view mirror and saw our kid-kicking patron walking in the direction of the library. I waited until he got closer before turning on my car and turning my car toward the library. I waited in the parking lot until he actually crossed over and started toward the library's parking lot before I pulled out of the parking lot I was in and slowly started driving toward the library. Once it was clear he was headed to the entrance and was going to enter the library I decided I was going to call the library. The other librarian getting off at six, along with two of the circulation workers, were walking along the sidewalk so I stopped to let them know I had seen the patron and that I was going to call to let the librarian working know he was around.

I pulled into the next parking lot and called to let the librarian know that I had seen the patron near the entrance and that she should call the police if she saw him in the building. I also let her know where the letter was, that stated he was banned, and that she was supposed to wait until the police showed up and then walk over with them to give him the letter. The librarian I talked to on the sidewalk ended up staying on the sidewalk with the circulation people until the cops showed up and said that after a while they came back out without the patron so we don't know if he ended up leaving before they could talk to him or if it just went perfectly smoothly and he left out another exit. I'll find out tomorrow.

After that I picked up Qdoba and headed to my Mom's house for dinner. We ate, talked, and watched YouTube videos. I left a little before 8:30PM so I could get home and slowly get around to writing this. And it's now after ten o'clock, so it did take me awhile to get started, but I did the smart thing and turned on music and stopped watching videos so I wouldn't be overly distracted. It kinda worked.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. I've had a headache most of the day and at the moment I'm really tired. And I have to open tomorrow. Yay.