oh, mama raised me well

manager decided to pull out the call # labeled genre materials from our adult fiction section an separate them so we could direct folks to them easily (we often get inquiries like 'where's your mystery books?'). this is fine, our fiction section as a whole isn't terribly big to begin with

so i scope things out and talk with the manager about how we want to move things around. we did this briefly on monday b/c she was in for a few hours before taking the day off and then, after monday, she's out on vacation b/c she's moving

TURNS OUT, the space we decided to move them into, doesn't fit everything. we didn't take into account how many fucking romance paperbacks there are. they alone fill up a whole column. and the mysteries fill up a whole column PLUS 100+ more books that need to be shifted in with them. there's obv not space for that rn lol so now we're in kind of a limbo b/c we don't have much wiggle room overall here. i could shift and condense all the regular fiction and then start the genres after it, but it doesn't LOOK as nice as the location they're in now (nearby the fiction, but their own section, basically)

so i spent the evening running lists to see what we could maybe weed that hasn't been checked out in years and years - but that'll be a manager approval thing and i won't be able to do that until she comes back. and i can't move any other sections to maybe relocate stuff until she returns either. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i really want to move the large print somewhere else b/c it takes up such a chunk of space in prime real estate near the desk and in the fiction area in general that we could utilize and SO LITTLE of it actually circulates. but a coworker did mention that most patrons who check out the large print are older folks, so moving it to the back of the adult area might not be the BEST idea? so i'm taking that into consideration

so whatever i've been working on it all day and i just needed to shout about it lol

so since my new pc has a fuckton of ram, i figured maybe i could stream?? which i CAN, which is pretty cool. it's convoluted b/c i do almost all my art on my ipad now, so i have to mirror my ipad to my pc and then have obs pull the visual from the mirroring program, etc., etc.

BUT! i did manage to successfully figure it out AND how to do music (via pretzelrocks) for it which is pretty cool, as well. so i figured i'd do a little doodle for my overlay, since the resolution for my ipad is HUGELY different than my monitor resolution and i had all kinds of empty space around my canvas and i didn't like how it looked lol



full image for the overlay


and pretty much the final overlay! the afk is a placeholder, for use when, obv, i'm afk lol

04/26
time-ish: hour to midnight

[The Seven of Bells] ⇧

the creatures of the wood would make you one of them. At the chime of the bell, you are being transformed into something you are not, gone solid from the inside out.

your life does not feel like your life anymore. you have been made into something other people need you to be. you have taken on the needs of others far before your own. this is folly. push it to change once more. you can return to yourself if you find what made you this way and confront it.

in reverse, this is the catharsis of stepping away from your struggles for a while. you don’t have to face your hardships alone at all times. No, you can seek vacation. Tourism in a body that isn’t your own. GO do something you wouldn’t normally do. Even if its frivolous, feels unimportant. We must be comfortable in ourselves enough to just be silly and free from time to time.

end of day thoughts
huh. this is one of those that feels like maybe the inverse would've been more apt