I had another good night of sleep last night. Tonight won't be as
good because it's already almost eleven o'clock and I would like to
at least start packing for tomorrow. But last night was good.
When I woke up I read in bed, finished Einstein's Dreams,
looked at the travel book for this weekend, did a load of laundry,
ran on the elliptical, got ready, ate lunch, and went to work.
I was on desk for two hours when I got to work. I updated my
homebound spreadsheets with the feedback I got from the bookmarks
yesterday. I also updated tech class attendee information for the
off-site class yesterday, and I read some news.
Then I had a walkthrough and cut out 200 username/password slips for
summer reading, so we can write down that information for people when
we register them. Then I checked out a laptop and went up to the
third floor. I set up shop outside tech services and started by
reading a Library Journal article about podcasting. And then I spent
the rest of the time looking up stuff related to the article.
After dinner I had a walkthrough and covered the tech desk. That
time was mostly spent looking at news articles, and catching up on my
written notes for my journal. And then I was on desk for an hour. I
know I did some things but I can't remember any of it.
That hour was completely overshadowed by the rest of the night.
Right before I got off desk I got an email from Alan Lightman, and he
said he wouldn't mind signing a copy of his book. The catch is I
need to get it to him by next Wednesday. So I spent the next hour
figuring out how to get him a book. I wanted to get a first edition,
and I found one, and thought it would be shipping from New York, so I
paid for expedited shipping and had it sent to the address Lightman
sent to me. But after I hit the order button I found out it was
actually shipping from California and the estimated delivery date was
May 30th. I sent an email to the seller to see if I could
expedite the shipping even more and get it there by next Wednesday.
In the meantime, I got on Amazon and ordered a normal book that way.
I had it shipped to me so that I could ship it with a return
envelope/postage, but then realized it would cost a ridiculous amount
of money to ship it to Lightman. So I canceled that and ordered a
another one (which was $0.34 cheaper two minutes later) and had that
shipped directly to Lightman. It will be there on Saturday. Now I
have to figure out how to get him the return envelope/postage. I'm
going to go to the UPS Store tomorrow morning and see what my options
are. My first thought was to sent one envelope with two return
envelopes inside (because right now there are two books headed to his
house). My second thought was that it would be really convenient if
my UPS Store would be able to set something up with Lightman's UPS
Store, so he could just drop off the books and they could get them to
me.
This whole thing went from a long shot, to a reality, to slightly
stress, really quickly. But I have confidence I can figure out the
return shipping thing and everything will turn out well. Fingers
crossed.
After work I stopped by my sister's house to borrow the GPS thing
again and pick up a typewriter. We talked for awhile and then I
headed home. And I have spent the last hour writing this. I want to
go to bed now but I want to throw at least a few things in a
suitcase, or maybe clean out my trunk. We'll see.
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