Stuff Important to Me: A Day in the Life meme

Wednesday August 6, 2008

8:10

pick up newspapers
arrive in a caffeine deprived state
drink coffee
read Google reader items
check email for urgent items
since I have the full acrobat programme I do various things for staff -- today cut out 8 pictures from a document and sent to requester - he later asked why I did not do it last night at home because he had waited up for me to send it to him :)
finalized plans for getting lab notebooks scanned
read and/or deleted email from inbox - not much today
filed email - I get over 100 a day and need to spend time every couple of weeks organizing and weeding them - my goal is an empty inbox.
answer question on what kind of paper can go in printer.
phone call from PIRA in the UK (love that accent) asking about a journal renewal
straightened out that renewal on our end and theirs
check email
forwarded PIRA email to assistant for her to handle
phone call from journal vendor. Set appointment for end of month to discuss quote. Invited assistant to participate
wrote a blog post on http://www.canada411.ca
called home

10 am

starting a headache. off to get food and take pills
BLT with cheese - yummy
checked library typo of the day against our catalogue - impared - no matches were found
updated online calendars
continued with paper monster - filled my recycle bin in my office
created an account with Collections Canada for ISBNs (for CFUW cookbook)
filing of paper from paper monster
check email
checked status of ID ordered yesterday
blogged http://www.pandora.com
updated training database with conferences etc.
sent appreciation award nomination for staff member

Lunch

lunch with my peeps (husband, daughter, son). They brought a picnic lunch and we ate outside (note to self - tell facilities that picnic tables need painting)

1 pm

listening to this cool music site http://www.pandora.com Only works on US IP addresses, not Canadian ones so I cannot listen at home.
continued updating training database with conferences etc. - added approx. 25 courses and conference to database. Time consuming.
All staff meeting 3-4.

4 pm

request from corporate library in USA to test remote Z39.50 catalogue access. Still not working. Replied as such.
headache still not gone - more pills
talked to people dropping by as they return from staff meeting - I enjoy it, but it is time consuming.
cleaned up learning/training database display on web page (cold fusion, html, dreamweaver, etc.)
check email
watered plants
set up new account for new employee and sent him a ton of info on what we have, what we can do for him, how we can make things easier,etc.
called Dog Guides of Canada to check a few things on the foster puppy we will be picking up next week. this is our second one. The first one can be seen at flickr casper set

6 pm

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