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Librarian Day in the Life – Friday

Finally, I feel like myself again. Being sick mid-week is no fun. … OK, being sick is no fun, period.

An edit from yesterday: I remembered what I was doing at the end of the day, or at least part of it. I was setting up a Doodle and sending out an email to my Emerging Leaders group. Weird that I didn’t remember that, 10 minutes later…

8:30-9:30 – hung out in Starbucks, downstairs from my office, for a change of pace; replied to an email asking for information about Alaska (yay, people are interested in our open position!), replied to an email about Alaska Snapshot Day–it’s going to be awesome, this year, folks!; tried to reply to two other emails (but Mail is set up wrong on my computer… so my replies are written, but have yet to send); posted to my library’s Facebook page, to promote Anchorage Reads
9:30-10 – started this post; worked on fixing Mail (no luck yet… no, wait, there they go! … our Exchange server is so fiddly!); dealt with Facebook; wished for more coffee
10-10:30 – we have these things called “Individual Health Planning sessions,” at UAA, and I had one scheduled for 10am; they took my blood and told me my cholesterol and stuff (my numbers aren’t as good as they were last year, but they aren’t bad, either :))
10:30-10:45 – talked with a colleague about a LibGuides Mystery (neat!)
10:45-11:45 – grabbed some tools of destruction (see photo) for our Subjects A-Z project, maybe we’ll do card sorting!; ran into several colleagues, talked about moose and First Fridays and Etsy; bought coffee
11:45-1:25 – lunch; some email, including a long philosophical question to a colleague about our faculty evaluation criteria; a long status update meeting with my department head (we work 3 offices down from each other, how do we have so much news?)
1:30-2 – Remember that paperwork from earlier this week? Finished that, got it turned in.

It gets shaky after this, because the snow shut Anchorage School District and part of the university down. I spent some time talking to a coworker and some time on email. At some point, Dale came and got me, and I worked the rest of the day from home. I chased down most of the LibGuides Mystery. I added some stuff to TeuxDeux. I’ll probably write post-its for the Subjects A-Z sorting task before giving up on work for the day–week!–while watching “Warehouse 13.”

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