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The Now: April 7, 2021

4/7/2021

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Today is my first day back at work this week (use your vacation time!) which is why this post is late and the intro is short.

Priorities!
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Here is where my attention is going at the moment.

WORK
  • We wrapped up the interviews for the librarian position last week. Now we get the difficult decision of selecting our preferred and back up candidates. This is going to be hard. All the candidates could work, but they could all work in VERY different ways. 
  • Since I took two days off, my inbox overfloweth with email. I spent much of today doing triage with a lot of follow-up to go. 
  • I got wrapped up in redesigning a flyer for our University's upcoming Research Week. It's one of those projects I really enjoy so I just get sucked into it. I was nearly late leaving to pick up our daughter from daycare on afternoon because I was lost in getting some of the finer details looking just right.
  • It's National Library Week and I had a lot of fun taking pictures for our social media. This year's theme is "Welcome to the Library." Since we're not really open, I took that theme a different route and made it more "welcome the library wherever you are." I got shots of the logo in various, non-library places to show that your library goes with you.

PERSONAL
  • I spent Monday super cleaning our entire home. I'm talking the nooks and crannies kind of scrubbing. Our place now shines but man are my hands dried out. I should just leave them in a bucket of moisturizer.
  • As much as I love spring, the change in weather does mean a change in nature. We've had a small incursion of tiny black ants in to our kitchen. We think they're climbing up the brick wall and coming in through a minute crack between the floor and moulding. Our building's exterminator is dropping by later this week to deal with this, but I have been killing lots of ants and washing our floors and counters more often.
  • During the ant killing, I discovered a few mouse droppings under the stove. Our building was built in the early 1900s so this is to be expected. We moved the stove to see how bad it was. The problem was worse than we wanted, but not like an infestation - particularly considering that this is the only place we've seen droppings. BUT I discovered that when they patched the hole behind our oven some time ago (because of a gas inspection thing - that's its own story) they left a nice gap where said mice are clearly coming in. On a lunch break, I ran to the hardware store for steel wool and filled the heck outta that gap. I also, scrubbed the floor under the stove because ew. 
  • In very happy news, I did some vaccine hunting and was able to schedule my arm jabs. First shot is on Friday!
  • In spring, I rejoice at the blooming flowers. Flowers are one of my favorite small joys. Every time I go outside right now, I am on the hunt for beautiful blooms to share on my Instagram.

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