May 21, 2018

Last night I got about four hours of sleep. Then I had to get up early so I could go get a haircut before work. Ideally I wouldn't schedule a haircut before going to work at 9:00AM, but I was overdue and this morning was the earliest possible time. I had just enough time afterward to come home and change shirts before work. On the way to work I dropped off the academic librarian and made it to the library with time to spare.

I had two hours off desk when I got to work so I went upstairs to the meeting room. I caught up on emails, and I was able to switch weekends with one of the other librarians, so now I can go to a weekend symphony thing next month. I also had a little time to play around with Google Maps stuff in preparation for the upcoming class.

I was on desk for two hours after that and that was basically completely spent working on Google Maps stuff and helping the occasional patron.

And then I had a four hour lunch break. The person in the tech center who was supposed to work tonight was sick, and it was last minute, so of the two of us who were there, I volunteered to work a split shift and cover the tech center tonight.

This worked out pretty well because on the way home I was able to go to the grocery store, which was a much better time than going at 6:00PM. The produce selection was pretty sad in the middle of the afternoon, but at least it wasn't crowded. When I got home I took a nap before eating dinner and heading back to work.

I covered the tech desk for the next four hours and it was kind of nice. There is a lot less responsibility compared to working at the reference desk, so I was able to do zone out and work on things, after covering the regular tech desk responsibilities. I set a patron up on the creation station, helped a patron print, figured out how to properly turn off the projector in the auditorium (by using an iPad instead of the remote), made a list of audiobooks so that one of the other librarians could pull them for me (because I hadn't had time with my modified schedule), figured out which keys opened which doors in the tech center with that same librarian, and also helped her unjam the shredder.

All of that didn't take too much time so I was able to put in a decent amount of time on the Google Maps class. Thanks to being able to zone in, I was able to get all of the screenshots I needed and this allowed me to finish the handout/presentation for the tech class. This also made the night go by pretty quickly, which is always appreciated.

On my way home I picked up the academic librarian and we quickly called it a night.