Tuesday, March 13, 2018

March 13, 2018


This morning I woke up before my alarm went off and watched videos for awhile before running on the elliptical, taking a shower, eating lunch, and going to work. The first thing I did when I got to work was go upstairs so I could call one of my homebound patrons, who had called and left a message for me. On my way to our cubicle I stopped to talk to the teen librarian about the adulting class tonight. One person had registered, so we decided to cancel it. No offense to that person, but one person isn't enough to warrant police officers, firefighters, and a fire truck (unless there's an actual emergency, obviously). Later on I learned that the one patron who had registered was only coming because they needed to watch and write about a presentation for a class assignment, so in my mind it was less for us and more for her class. I did, however, recommend a presentation on Thursday happening at the library, trying to be helpful because I did actually feel bad that we had to cancel.

When I made it to the cubicle I called my homebound patron, and then I worked on updating the webpage for today's tech class. And then I was on desk for two hours. After emailing the patron about the canceled class I made a post on the staff blog letting everyone know the class had been canceled. I didn't get any responses to my earlier post about the class, so I was fairly confident no one was interested, but just in case anyone planned on stopping by at the last minutes. I ended up including a GIF of David Tennant as the Doctor, looking sad, standing in the rain. I thought about using one of Charlie Brown saying “I don't think anyone likes me” or one of Bill Murray saying “Well, I want to die”, but I thought that would be a little too dark. Funny, but dark. I also resisted being super snarky. I have my moments of restraint in writing. When I was done with that I updated my homebound list for this month with requests sent by one of my patrons, and I formatted the new interlibrary loan book kit list and updated the link for it on our website.

I was off desk for an hour before my dinner break and spent most of that time reading a library article about VR and talking to my coworkers. After dinner I was on desk for an hour and was able to finish the VR article, which just makes me want to dive back into my idea for creating an augmented reality app for the library. I also spent that hour helping patrons, talking to my coworkers, and sending an email.

I had two walkthroughs after that and then the rest of the night was open due to the canceled class. Most of that time was spent trying to catch up on attendance and feedback information for tech classes. I didn't make it very far on the feedback front but I made decent progress. I also read some news articles, because I hadn't really looked at the news today. Oh, and I wrote a post on our department blog about finding the old articles this weekend using the Wayback Machine.

When I got home I logged into CoD: WW2 just to get my daily log in reward, and there was an update. The new theme for the rest of the month is St. Patrick's Day, and it's awesome. There is a giant golden mug in the middle of the Headquarters, pots of gold, clovers, and other random decorations all over the place. There are also new uniforms, emblems, and weapon camos with green and clover themes to unlock. I'm a big fan of green, and love St. Patrick's Day just because it gets people to wear green, so this event is awesome. And I have even more incentive to play now, trying to unlock all of the cool green stuff.

Following that, I ate a snack, watched videos, and got distracted by the internet for awhile. And now I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed.

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