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[spindizzy]

Right, update on work and house stuff, and then I can start capslocking about the fandom and hobby stuff!

We got lucky, the landlady got her partner to bring her down in the car (... So that she could bring us two massive tubs of paint and attendant supplies) instead of getting the train, and she only gave housemate a panic attack instead of both of us! She's arranged to have most of the carpets in the house replaced because she spoke to a nice gentleman who had some carpet offcuts that would go great in our stairwell. :| :| :| :| :| On the plus side, now I've painted an entire wall! Adulting milestone passed! I think not giving a fuck about how it looked helped, because it was suspiciously straightforward. But once the carpet guy's been and gone, and the electrician comes back to reconnect one of the lights to a lightswitch, we'll be free! No more workmen for the forseeable future!

As for work: so my manager explicitly said that the goal was to have zero customers, and I don't fancy our chances. Any time I've stood outside the building this last fortnight, I've had to either help or turn away customers. Best ones so far: the teacher who was so convinced that we were open that she brought a seminar group of students to be taught in one of the (closed) rooms, and the guy who responded to "We're closed until Monday" with "But I just need to print one thing!"

So back at work, seeing everyone that I'm normally on shift with for the first time in six months, and... Oh boy it's weird. Like. Not just the "never been away / oh look, the apocalypse" thing, but also our job is very explicitly being shifted to focus on all of the things that I'm worst at. They've changed our opening hours so that customers can only come in like 9-5, but our shifts are going to be very unstructured! We're going to be given an area and expected to find tasks to do in that space for two hours.

I have ADHD. 

Two hours of unstructured time is a nightmare.

But on the plus side, this nonsense seems to be focused on streamlining things so that we can get people in and out of the building as quickly as possible, so fingers crossed! We've thrown the managers off a bit by asking them questions like "What do we do about people who want to use the building as a corridor/bathroom/waiting area for their mates?" and "You know how you've crammed all of the furniture down one side of the rolling stacks? Did you remember to turn the brakes off the stacks before you did so that they can still be used?" We might be mostly done with our training now, but we're all in again tomorrow to start working on putting away six months' worth of quarantined and/or flood-damaged books! Which isn't too bad, because we're the science library and so most of our materials are digital, but it's still six months' worth of books. If I come back next week complaining that I can't move, you all know what happened.

(Oh, and I've discovered that we are allowed to let customers with an accessibility need into the elevators, but that still requires people to make themselves known to staff, so I'm still side-eyeing it a bit.)

On the anxiety front: I will probably be more anxious about being in work once we actually have customers again! Currently dealing with these problems by combining advice from jilliferium and bookgazing: I've got a plastic box with a lid in the bathroom, and when I come home I immediately dump my clothes in the box and have a shower. It's probably not doing much, but it's an action that I can take that makes me feel like I have some control of the situation, so it's doing something. Good enough!