The Now: March 31, 2021

As I type this, the heavens have opened up outside. The rain is pouring down in sheets turning the alley behind our building into a rather fast moving stream. I did not know it was supposed to rain today. Glad I got my lunch walk in before this happened. 
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Aside from being distracted by the rain, here's where my attention is going at the moment.

WORK

• This week, we're conducting interviews for an open position at our library. It's a lot of Zoom. A lot. This is my second round of doing interviews remotely and, I gotta say, I don't like it. It's just weird trying to hire a colleague when we're not in the same space. The candidates are doing great, but I wish we got to see each other in person.
• I attended and presented at the Computers in Libraries conference last week. Since all the session were recorded I am slowly making my way through the archives to check out the ones I could not attend live.
• We held another session in our Faculty Webinar Series this week. Just two more to go! I'm already making plans with my colleagues to bring back this series in the fall. We're going to spend time this summer assessing this semester's events and thinking up what we want the next events to look like.
• One of our interns is working on LibGuides for our community college programs. I've been handling my end of the review and edits. This week, I was able to hit publish on three more guides.
• The monthly staff newsletter I write goes out tomorrow. I spent today drafting up content and tracking down appropriate GIFs.
• Last week, I cohosted a webinar with DCPL introducing our students to what the public library offers them. We recorded it so I'm using that in our post-event marketing.

PERSONAL

• My newsletter launched this past weekend. I am doing some marketing and sharing of the first issue to grow my audience a little bit. I don't expect this to be one of those viral newsletters, but I am proud of it and want to share it widely. 
• April kicks off tomorrow. (How?!?) I'm drawing up the new slate of monthly pages in my bullet journal. I will also spend time reviewing how I think March went.
• I'm in week 2 of my 5K training program. Still don't like running but there is one upside - I run back from daycare drop-off which means I get home earlier than I used to. Not much earlier but still earlier. I'm hoping I can get most of the training program done before the DC summer kicks into gear. Also, I think I need new shoes. Mine are over a year old and not as cushy as they once were.

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