COVID-19 Work Chronicles Week 2 & Birthday In the Age of COVID-19

  This week was the second full week being back to working inside the library building. The week start of well in that I was notified that after several years of being the project lead for the library's Career Online High School program and having 7 people not complete the program, we've had our first person finish! Although we are currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have let the student know that once we reopen, we will hold a graduation ceremony for her as soon as it's acceptable to do so. We also have two other students who are well on their way to finishing their respective programs so it's an exciting time in the library.

  Tuesday was an uneventful day filled with doing webinars and ordering books and DVD.The most memorable webinar I watched was presented by the California State Library regarding preventing and treating compassion fatigue with self-care.

  Wednesday was special because it was my 41st birthday and ironically, this was alaos the first day that everyone in the county where I work is required to wear masks when at work. Here's a photo of me wearing a surgical mask while at work.

   After getting home from work, hubby made me dinner of my favorite cuisine which is Asian food.

     Once dinner was done, hubby gave me birthday gifts of two journals since he knows how much I love to write down my feelings in a journal. In addition, he also got me a copy of "Well-Read Black Girl" which is a book I recently really enjoyed reading and mentioned how much I loved this book.