February 27, 2018

This morning I woke up in time to run on the elliptical, get ready, eat lunch, and get to work by noon. I had two walkthroughs when I got to work. I refilled DVDs, updated the webpage for today's tech class, and talked to the teen librarian about the adulting class tonight and the future of the series, while fixing one of our digital display signs (because multitasking). Spoiler alert on the future of adulting, we're not going to be doing it next semester. We both have a lot going on and we obviously haven't figured out how to make people interested in it, so we're going to take a step back and maybe consider a different approach in the future.

I was on desk for three hours after that. I started looking back at my shipment notifications for the tax forms and it appeared that maybe we had received the 1040 forms, which are the ones I have been waiting on. With the 1040A forms they put them in the box with the 1040A instruction books, so I left the desk for a second and went digging through the boxes of 1040 instruction books, and... I found the 1040 forms buried under a stack of books. Whoops. But at least we have them. And it only cost me one big paper cut on the back of my hand. I also made a post to the staff blog to let everyone know that we have all the forms in case patrons ask about it. I also used a great GIF that involved glitter.

I also helped patrons with computer things, like finding tax forms, and I found some tutorials for my boss. I was motivated by not wanting to make the tutorials myself. I also made an example Twinery post for one of the other librarians to post on social media, read a few library-related articles, and I showed a dad how to set up parental controls on a Kindle Fire. A fairly productive three hours.

After dinner I had a walkthrough, refilled my DVDs, helped a patron with a computer thing, and then eventually started setting up for the class tonight with the teen librarian. The class itself was very close to not happening because they wanted at least four people signed up and we had one. But luckily a fellow librarian and her husband, my boss and one of her sons, and the head of maintenance, all signed up, and actually showed up. And that's good because the one patron who signed up ended up canceling.

The teen librarian ducked out when the class started because she has a cold and her medicine was running out. And the class was pretty informal because it was all library people there and the two paramedics were really laid back. They talked about their jobs for the first forty-five minutes or so and then transitioned into answering questions and talking broadly about first aid. Then we went to look at the ambulance. They brought their biggest one so we were all able to get inside while they showed us around, and then we were shown all the compartments on the outside. Overall, it was a really good class and it was pretty much what I was hoping for. It's only a shame that we didn't have more people show up.

We had thirty minutes to look at the ambulance, and it felt like that's about how much time it took, but afterward while we were walking back to the library, they were just about to lock the doors. So we ended up spending about an hour looking at the ambulance. Time flies. I ended up leaving my notebook and water bottle in the auditorium because we were already running late and it had been locked up. And there was a little running around but we managed to get out of the building by 9:06PM, which is good because if it had been one minute longer I would have had to make up fifteen minutes for the time and a half of overtime.

It is now almost midnight and I'm typing with my eyes closed because I'm tired and want to go to bed. But not before I record my audio journal.