The Now: June 16, 2021

Sometimes, I am convinced that I was a cat in a previous life. I don't like getting wet in the rain, I find napping in sun beams to be a joy, and I am easily distracted by shiny things. Right now the light outside my window is shining through the trees making the coolest patterns on the floor next to my WFH desk. I keep stopping to look at them.

Here's what else has my attention at the moment.

WORK

• For the next few weeks, I am attending and working on our University's new Student Success Bootcamp. It's designed for faculty advisers to help inform them about all the resources they can refer students to. While I don't advise students formally, we do a lot of assisting with navigating academia at the library. Some of the material is old hat to me, but I am learning some new things and people to talk to. 
• I made progress on the University customer service initiative proposal. I *fingers crossed* should finish the (very rough) first draft this month. 
• This week, I started reading our common book for the upcoming academic year, I Came as a Shadow by John Thompson. I'm taking lots of notes to help me when I develop my LibGuide guide that supports all the events associated with the book.
• I created a template for some new departmental resource sheets. The first template was WAY too long. I let it simmer and then took a hatchet to it and cut it down by half. The goal is give faculty enough information without having their eyes glaze over.
• LOEX sent out the conference recordings. I started to make my way through the sessions I did not attend live.
• Some colleagues and I (finally!) got IRB approval to do research into how faculty develop their research assignments. We met to discuss the survey and next steps. My next step, tracking down a lot of emails.

PERSONAL

• I'm still running. It's not pretty or fast, but I'm doing it. I want to work back up to a good distance before I jump back in to the training app. I struggle to run a 5K while my husband is training for his second marathon. To each their own.
• Our kiddo's daycare put out a call for "materials" (basically anything that can be used in arts and crafts) some months ago. I decided this was a great way for me to clear out our overfilled wrapping paper bin. I put together a collection of gifts bags, tissue paper, ribbons, and bows to hand over. 
• This morning, I sent out the latest issue of our condo building's green newsletter. I always think it's going to take me a lot longer to develop than it actually does.

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