May 10, 2018

I woke up early, but still got a full night of rest, and then watched videos and played Minecraft for the first time is a really long time. I need to get back into Minecraft. I miss it.

I went to work at 12:30PM to make up for the weekend, and that made it much easier to find a parking spot. When I have to be there at noon, no one has left for lunch yet, and that is annoying. When I got in I had half an hour to kill before being on desk. I went down the the childrens workroom to plug in the Spheros for the workshop tonight and then I went up to the third floor. Our cubicle has been taken away so that computer is now in the meeting room. I had enough time to take a quick personality test.

I was on desk for two hours and spent a portion of that time helping one of our regular patrons (the one from across the street), with a PowerPoint presentation, and suggested Google Slides after she lost her first PowerPoint because she didn't save it. I also answered phone calls and chats, worked on my employee evaluation, and talked to the academic librarian a little bit because she stopped by to work on stuff. Then I was off desk for an hour, continued to work on my evaluation, and helped a patron find fashion books.

I was back on desk for an hour after dinner and that time was mostly spent talking to one of my coworkers and catching up on emails. Then I was supposed to have two walkthroughs but I skipped both because I had to set up for my workshop. The schedule didn't really allow any time for that, going from on desk, to two walkthroughs in an hour, to covering the tech desk for fifteen minutes.

I was all over the place trying to get things set up. I went upstairs to get a cart of books, then down to the basement (after getting the custodian to turn the elevator back on) where I pushed two tables together and set up the little arena for the Spheros with books and book stands and highlighters (which I had to got to the second and third floors to collect). Then I lost a lot of time trying to get the Spheros working. Three out of the four wouldn't connect. That was frustrating. Then I went all over the building trying to find our Sphero. It wasn't in any of the locations it used to be. It may be in the basement art room but I only just thought of that.

All of that running around took me up to 6:45PM when I had to cover the tech desk so that person could take a break. Almost immediately a patron walked in and wanted to use the creation station. We haven't really had any training on how to cover the tech desk yet, and it turns out the creation station is a bit of a thing. Thankfully the patron had used it before and was able to tell me the basic process, how I needed to use a guest pass and do something on my computer to unlock the computer (after I had gone over and tried to log into the creation station and it wouldn't let me). I was able to get it figured out and we were all good after that.

The tech guy got back a little late so I was a little late getting back down to the basement. The two patrons who had signed up, a husband and wife, were already there waiting for me. And it turns out they weren't actually interested in playing with the Sphero, especially the husband because his wife just dragged him along. She's a high school teacher and just wanted to know more about the Sphero and if it would be interesting to her students. I walked them through it all and we talked for about a half an hour. I tried multiple time to get them to play with it but they weren't having it. So I spent forty-five minutes running all over the place to get things ready, just to talk to patrons for half an hour, and not actually use any of the things I set up. I ended up playing with the Sphero myself for a couple minutes just so it wasn't all entirely for naught. Then I tore it all down, put the tables back, and got everything put away.

After work I went over to the academic librarian's house. She was sitting out on the porch with her friend so we all talked for a little while before her friend had to leave. Then we went inside and talked about all sorts of things until almost three o'clock in the morning. It started with talking about her bike, because that is her primary (only) means of transportation, and I have been out of the bike game since I was a kid, and there are so many different types of bikes, so I was interested. At some point after that we got onto webcomics and she showed me a couple books she had. I recognized one by the illustrations but had never read it. The other, A Softer World, I had completely forgotten existed but was instantly reminded and ended up looking through a lot of the book because it's pretty great.

And at some point in there she said she was attracted to me, which led to a lot more conversation about the nature of attraction, past relationships, more life story anecdotes, family history things, our own perceptions of each other, and how her attempt at asking me on a date turned into us just hanging out last Friday. And then we hugged and it was really nice. Now, I no longer have to worry about whether or not she likes me. But I do have to worry about her figuring out that maybe she doesn't like me. My head can be a very annoying place.

Now it is four o'clock in the morning, and I need to go to bed because I have to wake up for an early lunch with my Dad tomorrow.