March 27, 2018

This morning I got up a half an hour before my alarm, and then eventually did all the usual stuff before going to work at noon.

I spent the first hour and a half at work upstairs putting the finishing touches on my class presentation, and sending memes back and forth with the teen librarian related to the adulting class tonight and a new update to our staff laptop use.

Then I printed out handouts and got everything together for the class before heading down to the classroom. We had nine people show up, out of ten possible, so that's not bad. The class was slightly delayed because we had sound issues. I guess I'm the first person who needed sound since they remodeled the classroom, and it wasn't working. Three people worked on it and in the end they ended up just hooking up a Bluetooth speaker to the computer.

As for the class itself, I think it went alright. Not great, but it could have been worse. I think we got sidetracked quite a bit by questions, which might have added to the overall confusion. There were also a lot of more involved questions that didn't have immediate or clear answers, so that didn't help either. But we covered a lot of information and I think most of the patrons got at least something out of it.

The class went a little bit long, so I was a little late going to dinner, which made my dinner slightly shorter because I was supposed to be on desk when I got back from dinner. That hour on desk was uneventful. I talked to a coworker for a little bit, and then kind of got caught up on emails and other stuff I missed this weekend and yesterday.

Then I had a walkthrough, which ended in the childrens' room, talking to the person working until almost 6:30PM when the teen librarian showed up. I had another walkthrough at 6:30PM but instead of that I started setting up for the class tonight with the teen librarian.

We ended up having sixteen attendees, which was more than had signed up, so that was good. It would be nice if we had managed that sort of attendance for all the classes in the series. Maybe if we had, this wouldn't have been the last class in the series. Oh well. The class went well. The instructor brought several handouts and a big box of different seeds for people to pick through. He covered a lot of information and he had a very dry sense of humor which made it pretty entertaining.

I picked everything up after the class, returned the laptop and keys to the people in childrens, got stuff put away, and then went downstairs to close. I did the wandering around thing and I added a few more audiobooks to my display.

And that was my day at work. It went by incredibly fast. Tomorrow we're supposed to go deliver homebound books, so that will be another chunk of my day gone, but hopefully I can get some other things done as well.

After work I stopped by the grocery store. I only planned on getting bread and dryer sheets (after I lost mine to the washer yesterday), but I ended up getting other things. I was inspired by the apples and oranges I ate this weekend, so I picked up a few of each. I also got a few more potatoes so I can make more baked potatoes.

Now I'm going to wrap this up so I can actually go back and fill out my notes in my journal, because I didn't have time to do that throughout the day. Which kind of defeats the purpose, but it happens. And luckily there really wasn't much going on today. I won't be recording my audio journal today because I still need to get everything set up after this weekend, and make the recordings for the past few days. I might be able to get caught up tomorrow, but I don't it because it's Chipotle night. At the very least, there is always this weekend.