Schedules where I work

More on this later - maybe in 2 years when I no longer
work for my current manager and get "blessed" and
transfered back to sanity.

Let me just say, where I work is pretty insane.

Down the rabbit hole is the term I've coined for it.
Where to start, oh where to start? Its just -
so dearranged.

So now I joke as in "I'm going down the rabbit hole today"

Grim humor is needed to survive - and to think I
once worked for the best manager in the entire organization.

Its true. A good manager makes the work place so much
more ... enjoyable. And happy employees are so much more...
productive!

Logging the Day's Activity

So we've been asked to keep track of our daily work, to better
be able to account for our time, colleague support and departmental
contributions.

Herewith, I will begin blogging on this blog about my day's work achievements.

I have broken the day into 15 minute increments, and will account on daily
basis for the time I spend at work on various duties and tasks.

I estimate the process takes around an hour a day
to track and fill out the information properly.

At the end of the week, by COB Friday,
I will compile my daily logs/blog and submit the weekly report, the daily
logs to my supervisor, in print and electronic format. This is to ensure the
information is properly tracked.

So - what did I do, today 9/13/07? I began my day by opening
the reference desk. I arrived at 9:01 to the building, put my lunch
in the fridge, and proceeded to put my purse and keys at my desk.

I turned on my desk computer. Then went back to the ref
desk and turned on the ref desk computers (2), cleaned them,
and the desk. Logged into Horizon, Sam and Internet. Cleaned
the phones with wet wipes. Dusted the desk and printers.

Loaded fresh paper into all the printers.

That took me to 9:30. Then I began cleaning screens on
the Internets, and turning on the screens. I completed
that at 9:50.

I was not on the desk at opening, so I went and took a pee
break. I then went back to the office, to begin my individual
reference duties.

I checked work email, responded where needed - then -
put the cart of new books for review away - shelving the
new ones on the new book shelves, putting more mysteries
on the displays, and transfering the paperback and digital
sound media to the shelving carts for circulation.

After that, I went to find the book cart for Reference.
It was fully loaded with books, so I
swapped the old cart for the new cart.

Brought it back to Ref Office. Distributed the discards,
damaged items for review. Assisted Hugh in putting
cart in order. Emailed Jordan to let her know 1/2 the
cart consisted of "new" travel books that superceeded
older editions, so she could review and pull older copies
and replace as needed.

Then I worked the desk 12-1. I had lunch a quick
pee, and then sat down to reviewed incoming
work email 1-2, also scanned the
Wash Post and other media to improve my "awareness"
of current events during this time period.

2-3 worked the Ref Desk. 3-4 worked on getting up
to speed on Programming - my new duty. Reviewed
proceedures with Aaron and Jason and Brett. Made
sure September program set ups were good to go.

4-5 worked the Ref Desk, and worked on setting up my blog
entry in between reference transactions.

I reviewed my paper 15 minute log, compiled statistics
for the day (no. reference desk transactions).

At 5 pm (30 minutes from now) I will be leaving for the
day, having opened at 9 am.

Cheerio!

I'm DONE! Yayy!

I can't believe it, I'm actually DONE! YES!
All 23 Thingies are done! On time even.
Way to go. And now I bid you all adieu, adieu!
Goodnight, goodnight all!!

Thingy 21 - Podcasts, Smodcasts

Well, I added a podcast feed I like to my blog,
I put in a podcast from WSJ! Its under my
sailing pictures, ontop the other RSS feeds I
inserted. :)

Thingy no. 23 - My reactions...now its over

Now its over, I'm thrilled I did it. :) I had alot of fun on some
parts, frustration in others. I generally disliked the podcast
(waste of my time, why not go in person, or listen to TV or
DVD or some other pre recorded medium?)

I loved the wiki's, the mashups and all that "fun" stuff.
And of course, YouTube... who doesn't like browsing
for fun stuff??!!

I will definitely do another challenge like this if we
are offered one. It was a good fun way to get
the staff started "playing". And "playing" is
how we learn best.

Thingy no. 22 - NetLibrary, out of order!

Okay, skipping out of order here! I wanted to do this assignment,
because naturally, I've already done it. :) I have a Netlibrary
account and have had ever since we got the service.

Netlibrary has a lot of excellent content, from non fiction to some fiction. I like the audio language learning books.

(I'm going to check out the Learning French titles ASAP!)

Taking a breather

Okay, I've made it in short order to no. 20 - and I played catch up to do
it. Now I am going to take a little breather. Its fun to do this, but it
*is* time consuming if you get into it. You can start getting
lost in the mist if you follow my drift (pardon the pun!).