February 1, 2018

 It's February already. It really is disconcerting how quickly time flies these days. It's definitely speeding up and sometimes I worry I'm the only one who notices it.

Last night I got less than five and a half hours of sleep and I woke up a few time throughout the night, so it wasn't great. I've been tired since I woke up this morning. Not a great way to spend the day. But I did get out of bed immediately when my alarm went off and was able to run on the elliptical before getting ready and going to work.

The usual opening stuff happened. I sharpened a bunch of pencils, so that made me happy, but I also had a slight headache, which isn't a great thing to have while using an electric pencil sharpener. I got done with the usual stuff a little early so I went down and restocked the Mystery display and swapped out DVD display signs and added more DVDs to the display. I had planned on doing that later in the day but I'm glad I didn't wait because we ended up having to adjust the schedule and I was on desk most of the day. Or at least it felt that way.

I had to move several of my upcoming events in April and May into other rooms because the room I had them in won't be available during construction. That was kind of a pain. And it's going to be a tad inconvenient when those events roll around, but life will go on.

I was on desk for two hours after that. I helped a patron figure out how to print a document and then looked up and printed tax forms for another patron. Tis the time of year for countless tax form questions at the library. Other than that I read library-related articles and probably did other random stuff.

My lunch got bumped from noon to one o'clock so I could do the noon and 12:30PM walkthroughs. Those were uneventful, and I am always okay with that. In between those walkthroughs I talked to my coworker, helped a patron find a book about antiques, and looked at our new book cart to kill a few minutes before lunch.

After lunch I had a walkthrough and then read news articles. And then I was on desk for two more hours. I answered a lot of phone calls and helped the occasional patron in person. I also read some news articles and then switched to mild research for the April video game discussion. It was mostly just a way to stay awake because I didn't have the motivation to do other work things. And it was kind of productive... maybe.

When I got home I ate leftover Chipotle and watched YouTube videos. Later in the night I got around to played a little bit of CoD: WW2 and once again had a mix of games. Some good, some far less than that. It's not fun getting completely dominated and it's not fun completely dominating.

Now I'm watching a livestream and trying to keep my eyes open while writing this. The struggle is real, so I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. I should be able to get a full night of sleep tonight and I'm looking forward to that. It will be night two of listening to a video of a fan through my Bluetooth speaker while I sleep because I have given up on my fan with it's random high-pitched squawking. It worked out well last night so I think it will work just as well tonight.