Tuesday, November 21, 2017

November 21, 2017

 Last night I ended up getting six hours of sleep because I moved my alarm clock to 6:30AM. It was the right call. I was still tired throughout the day but six hours of sleep sounds a lot better than five and a half hours of sleep.

When I got to work I did all the normal opening stuff. And then right before we opened there was a fire alarm test. Thankfully it wasn't a drill, so we didn't have to leave the building, but I did have to sit there for several minutes listening to a fire alarm. It's not as loud as the one at the elementary school, however, so it could have been worse.

I was the only librarian until noon so I was on desk for the first two hours. In that time I was nearly able to finish my wi-fi tutorial. I finished the layout, added all the text, fixed the layout of the Table of Contents (because I decided to add another item to the list when I was halfway through), and started adding links. After lunch I was able to come back to it and get it all finished. One more thing done.

After that I needed to take a break from the computer so I recycled some batteries and then walked around and refilled empty stands on displays. That's one of the things our department looks for on our walkthroughs but I don't know if anyone else does it, even though they should.

I was on desk for another two hours after that and that seemed to drag on forever. I started reading the transcript of a class on leadership I'm supposed to watch but I couldn't make it very far because it is in the form of an interview and it is verbatim, so there was a lot of “yeah” and “you know”. I couldn't take it. I also read news articles, watched usability videos, and infrequently helped patrons. I actually helped another patron today with the law database, which is crazy because that's two people in two days and I haven't seen anyone use it in months.

My last hour started with a walkthrough, during which time I stopped by the teen anime party in the auditorium. The teen librarian called me in as I was walking by. There were only three teens but there was a lot of Japanese candy. I didn't eat any but it looked interesting. I then talked with my boss about her idea of getting someone to come talk to us about how to write book reviews, in order to help us improve our newspaper articles. I found a book in our collection but neither of us were really in the mood to do anything so we were really just confirming that neither of us knew anyone we could ask.

When I got home, it was the same old thing. I ate dinner, watched YouTube videos, clicked around the internet for awhile, and played more of CoD: WW2 multiplayer. I completed three orders tonight, which are daily challenges, and they required me to get kills with the sniper rifle, a suppressed SMG, and an LMG. So I had an interesting mix of gameplay. It is a little frustrating trying to use a gun that isn't really suited to a particular map just to finish the challenge, but it is also a nice excuse for when you play horribly. Just blame it on the gun.


Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed, because that usually how these entries and my days end.

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