November 8, 2017

 This morning was much like yesterday, woke up, got ready, went to work. I was on desk for the first two hours and answered the phone, email and chat. When I wasn't doing that stuff I read through my script and tweaked a few things.

I was off desk for an hour and then had two walkthroughs before lunch. I spent that time reading a couple articles and one of them aligned perfectly with one of my slides so I added a quote from it to my presentation. The article came out on Monday so I like that I am able to include something so recent in a presentation about news.

After lunch I was on desk for an uneventful hour, just chat and phone calls. I was able to mess with the formatting of my script and I got that printed out. I have already had to make a few tweaks to the printed version, which is the problem with hard copies.

We had our department meeting this afternoon. I was nearly ten minutes late because I was on desk and had to wait for the teen librarian to come cover out desk. It ended up being alright because we were scheduled for a two hour meeting but it only took an hour. We did all the usual stuff, talked about a policy and the book chapter we read. Did kudos and covered random announcements. And then we talked about our personality test results. I had the same result as our assistant director and our new assistant. Just a fun fact.

To end out the day I had two walkthroughs. On the second one I refilled the Mystery display, which I love because I just have to wander the stacks and look for the Mystery sticker on the spine. Earlier in the day I refilled the audiobook display and it was still looking good, so I'm probably set until next week.

After work I picked up Qdoba and went to my Mom's for dinner. I didn't show any videos because I wanted to get home early so we just ate and talked and watched TV. And then I headed home.

When I got home I slowly got around to reading through my presentation script. And about halfway through it I began to worry my voice wouldn't survive through the real presentation tomorrow, so I lowered my voice quite a bit and switched to more of a mumble/whisper. It came out around half and hour, which is perfectly fine by me. I decided to do the news audit handout, so that will add at least five minutes and then there will be time for questions at the end. I know it will come out a lot shorter because I'll probably go off-script and forget a lot of what I want to say. But it won't be the end of the world. Life will go on and I will be able to shift my focus to tomorrow night's tech workshop. It's never ending.

I tried a spoonful of honey for my throat and I was glad to find out honey still isn't my thing. Whatever it does in the sauce I use for stir fry is good times, but on it's own, it still tastes like honey. With the rest of my night I watched YouTube videos and now I'm watching a livestream. But it's time to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I'm tired.