Can't Hold My Eyes Open

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I got a great night sleep last night, so I’m in much better shape today than I was yesterday. I’m still tired and a little out of it, but I expect to be back in the swing of things over the weekend. I did a pretty good job catching up from my time off. I think it helped that it was a holiday weekend and people weren’t doing as much, and they were out of the office too. I don’t mean so much in the library, though I was hardly the only one to take a vacation, but everywhere else. I manage the renting out of our community room which tends to be pretty popular, and I get a lot of emails about renting the room to business and community groups, especially nonprofit type groups. We’re pretty cheap for non-profit groups. Anyway, because everyone was enjoying Labor Day, there wasn’t so much to handle. 

 

I’m frustrated because I was so tired this week. I knew I would be tired; I just didn’t realize what the extent of my tiredness would be. I should’ve. I’ve been knocked on my ass after every single other one. What made it harder this time was not sleeping as late as my body really needed on Tuesday because my friend was here and I didn’t want to leave her alone and then driving her to their airport at stupid o’clock on Wednesday. Shadowing at another branch probably didn’t help either. 

 

My brain keeps wondering when I’m attempting to write too. I’m not entirely sure what’s happening there. I know part of it is the tiredness and the not in my normal routineness, but I feel like there are other things going on too that I haven’t quite grasped. I’m guessing part of it was the anxiety that’s still floating around inside me about meeting these people I love so much. It may also be how much people-ing I’ve done the last week. I did a lot of heavy people-ing during DragonCon and during work yesterday since I’m was somewhere I’m usually not. It’s always tiring learning new people’s names and faces, no matter how good I typically am at it. I’m sure I don’t remember all of them, but I did try to commit everyone to memory. 

 

I’m very curious if everyone at the branch I visited is the way they acted while I was there. Christy talks about how great they all are. I imagine that some of it legitimate, some of it is almost true with a dash of exaggeration, and part of it is just plain ol’ spackle over the problem holes. Which parts are which I’m not likely to ever really know without going to work there. 

 

My goal for this week was to get to 3,000 words, but I seriously doubt that I’m going to be able to do that. I was so tired, and at work, there was no time to even think of trying to get extra outside work done. I was really by how much I was able to catch up from being away, but that didn’t leave me a whole lot of time for anything else. I wanted to listen to my book at lunch too. I didn’t read anything while I was at the Con, so I felt the need to finish a book. My heart does tend to do that with books--demand that I get something read. Sometimes it’s something specific, but sometimes it’s just a desire to read and finish whatever book I happen to have started recently. 

 

But anyway, I still have like 2,000 words to go and tomorrow is the deadline. It’s really annoying that 3,000 is actually lower than where my goal really needs to be. It’s way lower really. With only writing a couple of hundred words over the weekend and the impending trip to England and Ireland coming up on the horizon, I am well in the whole and with little room to catch up. Granted, I could have a great writing spree on the plane! But I can’t rely on that. I could just as easily sleep through the whole plane ride. That second is probably actually more accurate.  As much as I’d like to make 1000 words today and another 1000 words tomorrow, I feel the chances of that are slim. 

 

Well, I can barely keep my eyes open. See y’all on the sunny side.