The Now: September 18, 2024

Normally, I give myself a buffer day when returning from vacation. Not this time, we rolled right from our last hotel night straight to work. On top of that, the husband had to immediately jet out of town for a work trip. It's been an intense 36 hours, but coming off such a relaxing vacation, it could be worse.

Here's what I'm working on now:

1. Banned Books Week Prep: A colleague and I are developing some material to recognize Banned Books Week which starts in a few days. He wrote a blog post which I formatted and scheduled. Together, we're working on a book display. Next week, I'll be posting daily on social media.
2. Faculty Resources: Each semester, I send a list of relevant departmental resources (plus some general library marketing), to every single faculty member (adjuncts included!) at our University. In recent weeks, I've been updating all the links and changing information to discuss our new location in those resource sheets. I also went through our course catalog to make sure I had every since faculty member accounted for. Today, I started emailing everyone. This is going to take a few more days to finish, but it always has our highest ROI for faculty replying to the messages.
3. Vacation Reentry: Lots of laundry. Lots of getting the kiddo used to mommy and daddy rules again. Lots of putting stuff away. Lots of catching up on a backlog of email, messages, and general household management. One thing I didn't have to do? Clean our condo. Cause my mom is awesome is surprised me by tackling that before we got back.

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