March 1, 2018

Once again didn't get a lot of sleep last night, so that was disappointing. At some point I'll figure out a more manageable schedule for my life. I feel like kind of on autopilot at the moment with not much control. I need to change things up and try to be more engaged with life outside of work.

When I got to work this morning I did the usual opening stuff, including pencil sharpening and grabbing a couple batteries for one of our computer mice that had died. One of the librarians called in sick but I think that only added one extra hour on desk to my schedule, so it wasn't too bad.

When we opened I was on desk for two hours and it passed pretty quickly. I answered several phone calls, dealt with purchase requests, and sent various emails. We're starting to plan another outreach event in September for signing college kids up for library cards. Time goes progressively faster and I don't think it helps that I have to plan things so far out, having to live, at least partially, months into the future.

I had a walkthrough after that and then talked to one of my fellow librarians for awhile about anime and other things that weren't really work-related but kind of were because as librarians we need to be aware of many things, including anime. I think I did something else before lunch but it's not coming to me.

After lunch I had two hours off desk. I used that time to pull books for my green display. I was able to get them all pulled, added to a record set, took down the old display and got those books processed, and set up my display. I even found the one missing book from the previous display inside one of the card catalog drawers. Sneaky.

I still had some time left so I unboxed all of the tax form instruction books and got them placed on the shelves behind our desk. The boxes had been piled up in the locker room but we needed to make more room in there. Although depending on the timeline and order of the remodeling I may need to move them again.

I was on desk for an hour after that, and along with helping patrons, I started researching active shooter scripts, because I have been tasked with coming up with the cheat sheet that will go next to each phone, so that in the event of an active shooter, anyone that is safe and near a phone, can make an announcement. I was off desk for the last hour of the day and spent that time continuing to work on that project. It's a bit intense going there mentally. I was getting stuck on the script so I spent the last little bit beginning to work on the template for the cheat sheet. My boss wants an example for the next managers meeting next Tuesday. Should be plenty of time.

When I got home I ate dinner, watched videos, and then played a little bit of CoD: WW2. The new maps were released today but I only played the new War map. They have a 24/7 version of that map but the other ones seem to just be mixed in with the other game modes and it never popped up for me. I'm not sure how I feel about the new War map. When defending with a halfway decent team it is easy to shut down the attacking team in the first stage, and it's even easier during the third stage. That being said, attacking can really be a pain in the ass, especially when the other team is halfway decent and your team is not. But it seems to go pretty quickly, so if it is sucking, it will be over fairly quickly.

I also paid over $2000 in bills tonight. The majority of that was two months-worth of mortgage. I had written down on my spreadsheet that I had paid back at the end of January for February, but apparently I didn't hit the final confirmation button. And I never got an email about it, so I figured I had paid. It's really annoying that you have to confirm your payment on multiple screens. Oh well, hopefully that doesn't negatively impact my future financial status. And it is a lesson to always double check my bank statement following a payment, and probably at least once a week just to keep on top of things.

It's now around eleven o'clock and I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. I'm on track to getting more than six hours of sleep tonight, and that will be really nice.