November 3, 2017

 Last night I got nearly nine hours of sleep and it was fantastic. When I got up I watched more of The Race livestream before getting ready, eating lunch, and going to work.

When I got to work I was on desk for two hours. My main accomplishment was tracking down a primary source for the Ben Franklin fake news things I was reading about yesterday. Previously I was just finding articles talking about it, which at most linked to other articles talking about it. Today I found a full, typed version of the newspaper supplement that Franklin made up, and a scanned copy of the original newspaper. And it will be featured for less than thirty seconds probably in my presentation. Worth it.

There was an insurance meeting at the library first thing this morning but my boss didn't want me to have to come in at 7:00AM when I didn't work until 11:00AM. Instead, I went to the meeting this afternoon at the fire station. It was an insurance meeting, so of course it was boring, but then it ended with a fifteen or twenty minute walkthrough of how to enroll on the website. It's literally just filling out boxes, and we had already been given a packet of step-by-step screenshots. Then the internet connection crapped out halfway through, so the lady pulled up the Word document of the screenshots and showed that on the screen. But she didn't zoom in properly so you couldn't really see anything. It was a great use of my time.

I got back to the library shortly after 3:30PM and spent the short time I had before dinner reading magazines. And then I went and ate dinner at 4:00PM. Not as bad as my lunch at 10:00AM.

When I got back from dinner I was on desk for an hour and continued working on my presentation. Which is what I pretty much what I did the rest of the night when I wasn't doing other things. Because that's how that works. By the end of the night I had come pretty close to finishing it. I might have one more slide to add, plus the conclusion, which I think is just going to be a recap of the objectives. And I might add a list of references but probably not because I found so many freaking articles. I might just make a list and offer to email it people if they're interested.

When I was working on my presentation I told a group of teens to keep their voices down because the entire library could hear them, I found a book for a patron, I did a walkthrough, and I refilled three displays (DVDs, Mystery, and new audiobooks). It was a relatively quiet night (minus the teens) and I was productive.

When I got home I spent the rest of my night watching The Race livestream, clicking around the internet, and texting. And it is now after 1:30AM. Good grief.