Work today

I really skived off HARD today. Hard to start working on anything when I won't be back in the building till next Tuesday, having been away for a week.

• I caught up the pile of paper on my work-table, and plowed through a few really old list-serve messages. Sent several DMs to friends/family.
• Ate lasagna and pizza at the Thank-You luncheon the city hosted. 
• Spent an hour at the children's desk with the new librarian, LetGo. And one patron.
• Following that massive brain-drain, met with Book Clubber for a quick catchup on what shenanigans have been happening. She is massively stressed, massively ready to not be working there anymore, and she tripped and fell in her office right before I was there so feeling stupid and very pained.
• Directly from that info dump, I collared Soup and asked if we could talk because someone had mentioned a blowout meeting with NPC (the boss) on Tuesday and I wanted to hear her version having just heard NPC's take via Book Clubber. Hoo-boy. She did good! Really back-footed him without being a bitch or a wimp.
• Chatted with my Box Guy about his parents' health and his health, and yada yada.
• Lit back in my own office for 10 minutes, read some email, pondered the information about the boss's recent receipt of his 360 review. His direct-reports slaughtered him. I am one of his direct-reports.
• Management meeting, except for one person manning the Ref Desk. Pretty decent meeting. Boss did bring up his review results. He'll be discussing the comments with each of us directly at OUR reviews. Our comments were anonymous and we all ran them through Chat GPT before sending them so he can't possibly know who wrote what. Not that we compared notes. Nor did any of us work together in the same room on different computers to write our individual comments.

I also had to run to Walgreen's for an Rx because apparently my eye-pressure is fubar, but only in one eye, so the doctor is worried about the glaucoma has risen from my gene pool. I came home, took a nap, got the twitchies instead, got up and ate pretzels and cheese while listening to Murderland Chicago (fun and very informative podcast which is what it says).

Now that I've written this up, I'm realizing that I need to rewrite all the notes about my coworkers because the previous/most-recent list is woefully out of date with lots of new faces, and several older faces in completely different roles. But still, again, no children's librarian. That is our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher: at least four people have been hired for that position in the past 18 months, seven since NPC started 11 years ago.