May 24, 2018

This morning I woke up, got ready, and dropped the academic librarian and her bike off at a coffee shop. Then I drove around for a little bit because I was a tad early for work. When I got to work I had two hours off desk. I pulled more books for my biography display and then sat behind the desk and talked to two of the other librarians. In a completely natural way it came up that I'm dating the academic librarian, and it really wasn't awkward at all. What was slightly more awkward was having to go tell two teens to put a little more space between them, because they were being a little too friendly in a public place.

I had three walkthroughs in a row after that. I refilled audiobooks, talked to people in circulation and childrens, talked to a man sleeping outside our front door on one of the stone benches (which seemed really uncomfortable but he seemed to be enjoying it and it wasn't against our policy, but we kept checking on him just to make sure he was doing alright), talked to my fellow librarians more, and kind of got a start on a new personalized reading list.

I went to my Mom's for lunch and she happened to be in the garage when I opened the door. She was pretty confused by the bike rack on my car, so I told her about the academic librarian, and I don't think I've ever seen her so excited. It was nearly at a comical level, and it was ridiculous, but also pretty cool.

After lunch we were shown how to set up the technology in our different meeting rooms, and then I was on desk for two hours, after taking a bunch of new donated games down to the basement. I spent a decent amount of time tracking down an academic article for a patron. We're getting more requests for scholarly things due to the university library being out of commission due to the fire. We can handle some of those but our library isn't really equipped for that, so it can be a bit frustrating not having the ability to help people. I got lucky with the patron today because I found a pre-publication version of the article online. I also had some time to actually start on the personalized reading list.

I had a walkthrough after that, covered a break in the tech center, continued working on the personalized reading list, and did my best to stay awake, because I was tired, and when I'm tired I have a tendency to want to fall asleep.

After work I picked up Chipotle, swung by my house to pick up the autographed books from Alan Lightman (because I didn't want them sitting on my porch if it rained), and went to my Mom's for dinner. We ate, talked, and watched videos. Then I drilled a couple holes in a new bird feeder so my sister could add dowels to it, and fixed a mildly dangerous fire trap behind the TV, because my Mom had way too many things plugged in.