Sunday, June 04, 2006

1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions: finding this year's award-winning lists of books and doing up an order for those we don't own, sending back books to owning libraries in system
There is a motorcycle safety demo going on in the parking lot today at 1:30, God help us all!

1:00
  • Set up wireless connection for new laptop
  • Consumer Reports car issue
  • New internet signup
  • Help printing pictures out of email
2:00
  • Someone in a wheeled cart gets stuck in the elevator
  • Restrooms
  • [I glare at someone chatting on his cellphone--he is, unfortunately--completely clueless]
  • Look up card number for internet use
  • Renew time [why not....?]
  • Sign up for internet [can't--need to have the card here too] ; computer classes [sure--sign up at circ.]
3:00
  • Pay for prints...and [what the hell] fines, too
  • Restrooms
  • Pencil
  • Restrooms
  • Restrooms [guess the program is over...]
  • [Another rude guy on the phone, but he's been rude off the phone too, so what can I expect]
  • Headphones
  • [Aha, I finally caught the eye of the phone guy--he leaves to talk outside]
  • Job sections from two local papers
  • [phone] Phone books for every city in the country [uh, no--I give her our standby]
  • [phone] Access to journals [I run through the access to our library website and she seems smart enough to figure out FirstSearch too]
  • Some guy is horrified at the scam-spam he received...[sigh]
  • Job ads returned
  • Last-minute internet signup
  • "Rhapsodies" [eventually I figure out he means "Rap CDs"--damn I'm dumb]