Monday

OK, so here's today. I don't have times written down, but things are in generally chronological order.

• Skim e-mail, feed reader, twitter, facebook
• Check voicemail, make list of call-backs (many branches aren't open on Monday, so most calls need to wait until tomorrow)
• Touch base with my office-mates (there are 6 of us in a large space - 4 Managers, a Digital Services Librarian, and an Administrative Assistant)
• Respond to weekly reports from branches via e-mail
• Discover an office-mate has brought us home-made peach pie
• Attend weekly meeting with fellow Branch Services Managers and our boss, the Assistant Director for Public Services - debrief re. recent supervisor training seminar
• Have short discussion with my boss re. specific ongoing issues
• Send agenda items to conveners of 2 upcoming meetings
• Eat piece of peach pie
• Discuss with office-mate the possibility of getting library cell plan to included texting, as we're using twitter and other text-based services more
• Start article on success of new Saturday hours at one of our rural branches; realize can't write it until tomorrow, when supervisor of said library is in and can answer my questions
• Write 5 brief reports for SPL's 27 Things project - the deadline for all 27 is July 31st, and I want my commemorative flash drive!
• Look at mock-ups for invitations for a grand opening at the end of August, and wonder how to make all the stakeholders happy with the print pieces
• Discuss the merits of using a Folkmanis pig puppet to ease difficult discussions in the workplace
• Open mail - receive a catalog of purportedly indestructible AV cases from a vendor I met at ALA; pass along to Collection Manager
• Play with a Dell Latitude 2100; we're considering using these for a "check out a laptop" program in one of our new branches; pass to other office-mates
• Discuss a customer-education sign suggestion with Marketing director
• Get call from boss re. lapse in customer service at a branch
• Notice I forgot to eat lunch
• Write up today's dayinthelife and go home