The Now: April 2, 2025

I'm mentally recovering from my awful travel day yesterday. Over 7 hours of maintenance delays. It was a lot of time in the airport (plus one round of boarding, deplaning, and boarding again). That meant I didn't get to the right city and hotel until midnight. I was  very happy to collapse into a bed that was not mind when it was all over.

Here's what I'm working on:

1. ACRL Conference: Today is the first day of the bi-annual ACRL conference. It's the biggest conference dedicated to academic libraries and I'm ready to take a lot of notes. Two colleagues and I are here to host a roundtable discussion on what DEI looks like at libraries serving MSIs - particularly when librarians are overly white. I'm looking forward to our discussion tomorrow,
2. AI Tasting Menu: Next week, we're hosting an AI Tasting Menu event. Essentially, we're giving space for people at our University to try out three specific AI tools. On top of my usual marketing and logistics, I'm setting aside time to learn about our targeted tools so that I can answer questions.
3. Adulting Planning: I set up my bullet journal for April and realized I desperately need to schedule various doctors' appointments, a condo cleaning, and some basic home maintenance stuff. Instead of putting it off, I'm putting things on my daily to do lists so that I actually tackle them.

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