December 14, 2017

 This morning I did all the normal morning things and then I went to work. I spent the first two hours upstairs and I didn't really accomplish much. I read articles, listened to music, and watched a few videos. One of them was about how they used VR to create a 3D model of Auschwitz to show that a Nazi security guard couldn't have been ignorant to what was happening at the camp. The guard was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people and was sentenced to five years in prison (he was 94 years old at the time). He appealed the conviction but died before it went back to trial.

I had walkthroughs after that and in between spent my time sitting at the table behind the desk and looking at library magazines. I also had a conversation with the teen library and we decided to cancel the two classes we couldn't find instructors for. It kind of sucks but we're both dealing with other things and it wasn't worth the stress of trying to track someone down.

I was off desk for an hour after lunch and I sent some emails, printed my timesheet, and looked at library magazines.

Then I was on desk for two hours and it was a little overwhelming for a little while. For over an hour I had a chat with someone trying to reserve a room. It would have been maybe a five minute conversation in person or a ten minute conversation on the phone, but in chat, over an hour. It was crazy and it was constant for that whole time. While that was happening I helped a couple patrons with printing, answered the phone, reviewed some instructions one of the other librarians wrote about room reservation, and looked up and emailed the history of a couple street names to someone who sent a request last night. I think the streets were actually named after the person making the request and his father. Interesting.

I needed some non-computer time after all that so I spent the last hour of work back at the table looking at library magazines. I think I finished two magazines. Progress.

When I got home I played a little CoD: WW2 while my dinner cooked, watched YouTube videos while I ate dinner, played more CoD: WW2, and now I'm back to being distracted by YouTube videos while trying to write this.

I don't go into work until eleven o'clock tomorrow but I have to wake up early for the health coach call. But I'll get to sleep in on Saturday, so I'm looking forward to that.