huh, i #libday7 ‘d again!

amy posted this July 26th, 2011 | filed under: ilovemyjob, inspire me!, moi | Tags: libday7, librarydayinthelife | 1 comment »

TUESDAY: (aka: ZOMG it’s only tuesday.)

6:45am: wonder WHUT THE HELL IS THAT NOISE. realize it’s my alarm clock. say a bunch of verybadwords and hit snooze. repeatedly. (it’s an ihome and i have a remote.)

6:50am: cell phone alarm clock goes off. say more verybadwords and hit snooze. repeatedly.

[for those following along at home, alternate alarm clocks are now ringing every five minutes. dante's 5th circle?]

8:10am: i finally get out of bed after snoozing two alarm clocks for over an hour. i heard the 8am CBC news, and listened to more about poor Jack Layton than anyone should have to before coffee. triage email while drinking some coffee.

9:15am: why on earth is my office so cold? someone walks by and mentions the “arctic blast” that seems to come out the door into the hallway (and no, they are not referring to my cold cold heart). get more coffee. prep for day of… one 7 hour meeting.

9:30am: tell people i have a 7 hour meeting. appreciate their ability to not say “SUCKA!”

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by bunchofpants

10am: start 7 hour meeting. (okay, it’s for a big digital humanities SSHRC grant that is going to be fanfuckingtastic in terms of bringing light to chinese female poets during the ming and qing dynasties. we are partnering with harvard, peking university, sun yat-sen university, and academia sinica. it is hot, yo.)
meeting is in english and chinese. i am the only person in the room that understands no chinese, but am completely mesmerized. my colleagues are lovely and translate everything for me.
tangent: i want to learn chinese.

noonish: the group goes out for awesome lunch. i take conference call for association work and eat a bagel at my desk. and not a good montreal bagel, but one of those redonkulously americanized bagel-cakes from timmy’s. (timmy’s are, according to the douchebag ford brothers in toronto, more important than libraries. dear ford brothers: consider yourselves on notice: RAMBINA DOES NOT LIKE YOU AND WILL HELP SMASH.)
i also catch up on the google reader, the twitter, the friendfeed, the facebook, the-rest-of-the-web-because-everything-has-something-to-do-with-my-job.

1:30pm: back to meeting. now we talk APIs, relational databases, making things available for mashups, and other good stuff that really gets my heart pumping. it’s awesome.

4pm: wrap up and great reception at the east asian studies department. fruit, tea, cookies, and good conversation.

5pm: fried brain, i run out of the office despite still having mounds of work. i replied to a bunch of emails throughout the day though, about:

• hiring and training of new student staff
• requests for funding for professional development (my request to attend a librarycamp as part of PD was accepted. precedence for unconference/camp attendance is now set. rock.)
• plans to enter a CE for SLA 2012 on IR best practices
• patent-filing questions from faculty
• selection committee requests
• contact info for our Elsevier rep (heh. heh. heh.)
• buying another terabyte of server space for upcoming projects

6pm: try and buy an xbox kinect. realize the monitor a friend gave me, while being 42″ and free, is so old that i may want to huck it and buy a cheap tv cuz the cables n’extra stuffs to make the kinect work on that screen are pricier than the tv. also, argue with future shop dude about tech. srsly guy, don’t try and upsell me on things. i do my homework, and i know “how computers work”. *junkpunch*

nightish: tuesday nights seem to involve me hanging out with one of my best friends, who has nothing to do with libraryland, but also works for the public sector (though in a way more important gig – childcare social worker). keeps me in check (seriously, i was freaking out about… that?) and she genuinely thinks that libraryland is awesome so really wants to know what i mean when i say i have a “metadata headache”. i have awesome friends.

10:30-til i sleep: comment on libraryland blogs, read up on stuffs i should know, check in with family and friends.

(around) 11pm: write this thinger.

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