May 22, 2018

Not a lot of sleep again, and then I dropped the academic librarian off on my way to work. As we were headed across town, I had the realization that she made me want to drive the speed limit so that I am with her for a little bit longer. That was pretty cool. Then I drove around a little bit longer to kill a few minutes before heading to work.

I was off desk for the first two hours so I went up to the meeting room and updated the webpage for today's tech class. That went pretty smoothly, and I was able to read a few articles, as well.

I then had a walkthrough and covered the tech desk for about twenty minutes so that worker could take a break. I also made a sign for two of our meeting rooms because even though the construction happening in and around them is obvious, we keep finding people in them. The last straw was a patron today who had to walk by a ladder and all the other stuff, and then told me he didn't realize it was off limits because he “didn't see a sign.” So I made a sign.

The tech class was after lunch. Two people were signed up, one didn't show, there were two walk-ins, and I had made four copies of my handout, so that worked out perfectly. The class itself went pretty well. It could have been better, but even if I thought it was perfect I would have wanted it to be better. There's no winning.

Following the class I spent forty-five minutes behind the reference desk, talking to my coworkers before going down to cover the tech desk for an hour. I was able to catch up on the news, read a few library articles, and talked to a couple teens about their game volume and talking.

I was on desk for the last hour and learned about a fire at the campus library. The best guess is that it was started accidentally by a worker welding on the roof near the ventilation system. It didn't seem to be that bad at first but then the news kept getting worse. I was getting updates from the academic librarian, as well as my Dad who was getting updates from his scanner I assume.

After work I went to the academic librarian's house. We decided to have our first official date and tried to do typical date things. We went and picked up a pizza from downtown (tomatoes and broccoli), sitting at a picnic table outside while it was being made, which was really nice. Then we stopped at the library to checkout a couple DVDs. We ended up eating the pizza on her porch and talked about random things, but spent a lot of time talking about old video games that she played growing up, which was unexpected but really cool. Also, the pizza was really good. I had never had it from that restaurant before but I want to have it much more often in the future. She also received continuing updates on the library fire, which only got worse.

When we were done eating we went for a walk around the neighborhood. This ended in a stop at her friends' house. We were invited in by the husband while his wife put the kids to bed. He offered us pineapple, and I don't think I've had cold pineapple in quite awhile, but it is still very refreshing. His wife eventually joined us and we had a good conversation until about 10:00PM, when we heading back to the academic librarian's house.