A Wobbly Day
Jul. 5th, 2011 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceitfiannaToday has been long and its not over yet. I just started my second shift of the day and don't feel that healthy. I began the day not wanting to get out of bed for my first shift from 1 to 4 pm but I managed it and was able to grab a muffin and some iced tea, annoyingly I ordered the wrong muffin. The one I had was okay but not was I was hoping for. The shift ended up being a nice change from my quiet evening ones as there were lots of questions. I miss the undergrad desk at times, apparently the summer session is fairly busy as I had a lot of good questions about finding books and buildings. At the grad desk, its rare to have many questions, I enjoy the quiet but a change is nice. I also recently signed up for a great many hours of work next semester, I hope that by doing that, I'll help to get a full time job sooner. This is a good job, I enjoy it but I need to really start my job search. Being an academic reference librarian is something I could do for a full time job, but I'd much rather be a children's librarian in a public library.
The thing that's made today feel particularly long is that I've felt tired and wobbly all day, I keep needing to sit down for fear I'll fall down along with my body temperature going up and down. I think some of it is the difference between outside and the ACed buildings but it normally doesn't hit me quite as hard. Part of it might be that I've eaten oddly today and I had the fun of trying to get a granola bar from the vending machine, one dangled so I had to buy two. I apologize to anyone if I'm snippy today, this is why. The upshot is that my plan of using these five hours of shift time to work on my grant and truly scope out jobs hasn't happened because I'm sore and feeling not quite here.
A good thing was I finished the latest Falco novel by Lindsey Davis and spent a lot of time sitting down in Borders, Dawn Treader and the Children's Literature section of Shapiro before picking up The Merlin Conspiracy. Lately I've been in a Diana Wynne Jones mood in my reading since she's good at writing transitions especially ones about figuring out what you do and how you do it.
In terms of books, I saw one in Borders that I think I want to try and find, its called The Pleasures of Cooking for One and it seemed a charming book about enjoying cooking for yourself. I love to cook but I'm so used to cooking for other people that knowing what to do when I make too much food or figuring out what works for me is tricky. Also the writing and pictures in this book made me smile.
I know I should be doing job things and I'm in a good place to start, I'm just terrified. I know myself and I know that emailing some of my mentors and people who I did informational interviews with before starting SI will help. Also sending out the first application will get the ball rolling, but that first step's a doozy.
The thing that's made today feel particularly long is that I've felt tired and wobbly all day, I keep needing to sit down for fear I'll fall down along with my body temperature going up and down. I think some of it is the difference between outside and the ACed buildings but it normally doesn't hit me quite as hard. Part of it might be that I've eaten oddly today and I had the fun of trying to get a granola bar from the vending machine, one dangled so I had to buy two. I apologize to anyone if I'm snippy today, this is why. The upshot is that my plan of using these five hours of shift time to work on my grant and truly scope out jobs hasn't happened because I'm sore and feeling not quite here.
A good thing was I finished the latest Falco novel by Lindsey Davis and spent a lot of time sitting down in Borders, Dawn Treader and the Children's Literature section of Shapiro before picking up The Merlin Conspiracy. Lately I've been in a Diana Wynne Jones mood in my reading since she's good at writing transitions especially ones about figuring out what you do and how you do it.
In terms of books, I saw one in Borders that I think I want to try and find, its called The Pleasures of Cooking for One and it seemed a charming book about enjoying cooking for yourself. I love to cook but I'm so used to cooking for other people that knowing what to do when I make too much food or figuring out what works for me is tricky. Also the writing and pictures in this book made me smile.
I know I should be doing job things and I'm in a good place to start, I'm just terrified. I know myself and I know that emailing some of my mentors and people who I did informational interviews with before starting SI will help. Also sending out the first application will get the ball rolling, but that first step's a doozy.
