Category Archives: my job

A Friday Library Day in the Life: Getting Ready for Monday

The final day of Library Day in the Life week was all about getting ready for Monday. Our new Fellow starts then (Hi Gretchen!), and I wanted to make sure that I had all of my ducks inĀ  row… at least as many as I could get in order. So the bulk of the day [...]

A Thursday Library Day in the Life: Catching Up!

I have finally figured out (it only took me three days!) that every little task I have on my “get back into the swing of things” list is going to take longer than expected. Now it’s all going to be about setting realistic goals. So with that, today I caught up with a [...]

A Wednesday Library Day in the Life: Planning

This day has flown by. John had an early meeting today, so I dropped Leif off on my own this morning for the first time. It was touch-and-go there for a minute, but it went better than I expected. Then, I headed in and straight to the parking office to resolve issues for the second [...]

A Tuesday Library Day in the Life: Pomodoros and Zen To Done

Day two was a little more productive. Unfortunately it didn’t start out that way. Yesterday I got my first parking ticket ever at a university (and I’ve been spending most of my time on one campus or another for the past twelve years). Over the summer WFU changed how parking works. I did request the [...]

A Monday Library Day in the Life: Re-entry!

As promised, I’m blogging the re-entry process this week. I’m just working half days, so there’s a lot less going on than typically would be the case.
You can see, to the left, the piles of mail that awaited me when I returned. Some of those piles came back to work with me. I had taken [...]