Day in the Life, Day 2

Here’s day two of the library day in the life postings! See the wiki for others doing the same thing.

Monday Evening

I am going to start with a bit from Monday evening relating to school and professional stuff outside of work:

• Checked blackboard to get an idea what I would be doing for the week, downloaded a few files to Zotero
• Checked school emails, added a few things to my calendar
• Blogged in all my various (4) blogs, since I had fallen way behind
• Started a blog entry for another blog I am participating in
• Did a little halfhearted research on my upcoming paper. I need to decide on a topic!

Tuesday Day

Today was a bit more of a normal day, though being summer it is pretty slow. During the school year when projects are in full swing, I’ll probably have 5-10 meetings a week, but during the summer this slows way down. In fact, the only meeting I have this week has to do with my practicum at the commission. I have a lot of time devoted to working on minutes this week- much of this is minutes from last week’s three day all hands meeting for The Walt Whitman Archive. Some of this requires serious cleanup, because people talked very fast! After these are done I will work farther back- I have some older minutes that need some cleanup.

7:45am-8:30am - Check email, sync boss’s calendar to my paper calendar, reply to any emails that just need a quick note, sort inbox
8:30am-8:45am - Meet with boss to discuss ongoing projects. Usually this would take a while, but it is summer, so there are not a lot of active projects
8:45am-9:45am - Continue emptying inbox, this time handling the emails that take slightly longer. This includes sending emails to set meetings, making quick web changes to the departmental site, etc. Also make tea sometime in here. mmmm, caffeine.
9:45am-10:30am - This is where my day started to get screwy, and why my job is hard to document. I started working on a website I am doing, but was interrupted by a phone call (I answer the phone for 7 people) and then was asked to burn a DVD because my co-workers computer wouldn’t. I also answered a couple more emails while I was waiting for the DVD files to copy over.
10:30am-11:30am - Continuing the DVD writing drama, my co-worker and I try many different computers. Finally got one that works. Tested DVD’s. In the meantime, more email came in, including some responses to meeting requests. I held a few tentative dates for meetings.
11:30am-12:00pm - Lunch! The Joint staff committee hosted an (indoor) picnic with hot dogs, chips and watermelon.
12:00pm-1:30pm - Working on minutes
1:30pm-2:00pm - More email, double checking room bookings for meetings (I’m paranoid) etc.
2:00pm-2:30pm - More meeting minute proofing. This sort of divulged into cleaning up the staff wiki, though.
2:30pm-3:00pm - Meet with a professor about possible changes to one of his sites, as well as installing and customizing word press.
3:00pm-4:00pm - Trying to ship a package. This shouldn’t have taken so long, but I had to look some stuff up, repackage, etc. In the end, I wasn’t able to ship it and will have to try again tomorrow. sigh.
4:00pm-5:00pm - Cleaning up the wiki some more, getting my inbox to 0 for next day, setting everything up for tomorrow and setting priorities.

Tuesday Evening

Homework Tuesday involved lots of reading. I downloaded all my readings to Zotero so I could read offline, and that’s pretty much all I did last night. I have a LOT of reading assigned this week, so I imagine this will be my routine for the next two nights as well.