1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions: there isn't any time between questions on Sundays! However, there is a football game today that will probably keep people away and glued to their TVs till 3 or so.

1:00

• Why aren't the computers turned on upstairs? [cuz I forgot to do it--which I do for this very nice man]
• Forgot card; can I look up her number? [yep]
• Internal Combustion, recently returned [found it]
• I can't log in [she moves to next computer station and I find that NUM LOCK is off]
• Where do things print? [right there--patron comes back and says wonderfully nice things about this library...preen preen]
• Gangbanger alert
• [I notice a cart with a note from yesterday re items that couldn't be done because of the computer outage, and take the cart to today's page to finish]
• Complimentary woman asks about printing the stuff at the side of the page, which was cut off [can't do it]
• Internal Combustion woman asks about a list of all our travel videos and DVDs [I print off one for her from the catalog]
• Pay for print jobs
• Local classified ads
• What do I click on to get into the internet?
• [Ugh--Smelly Man has arrived]
• Pencil/paper
• [Circ person comes to let me know she's noticed some teenies wandering around--"circling"--mostly hovering at the computers; probably up to no good. I turn on the security camera viewer.]

2:00

• Middle school teacher arrives with a million questions about the 1920s [good thing she's nice!]
• Pencil/paper
• Online magazine indexes [teacher from the other middle school in town]
• SAM registration
• Pay for print jobs
• The Art of War [find it, and patron confirms it's the right book--"by a Chinese guy"]
• Novelist...and Diana Gabaldon [I look up the fan site and give it to her, too]
• A Child Called It
• Two separate SAM registrations
• Smelly Guy asks for help [I'm too buried in a flurry of questions to get to him: and he doesn't get cranky with me! WTF! yay]
• When I print off the internet, where do I pay? [one of the previous registrants, hasn't logged on yet]
• More time online [Are you kidding? Every station is full! I'm polite but firm and she gives me several dirty looks]
• Smelly Guy brings me extra scratch paper from printer [??]
• Stapler. And scissors--Art of War guy
• More time online [teenager, and she understands completely when I explain]

3:00

• Art of War guy is stapling together resumes and head-shots and starts talking about politics with me
• 1920s teacher asks about radio shows [I gratefully walk her to the media area]
• Pay for print jobs
• Is this street [in a suburb about 90 minutes away] a North or a South or what? [since the map shows that it's only about 5 blocks long, we decide it doesn't matter]
• Pay for print jobs
• [phone] How to download ebooks onto my MP3 [I refer him to Librarian H who will be here tomorrow]
• Are my DVDs that I requested here yet? [no, and one is overdue 3 months, so I put it in the line for ILL instead of getting it in the system]
• Inorganic chemistry book [hah! I reserve one for him...not likely to be here!]
• Rants [for Smelly Guy--it's misshelved but I find it]
• Can't print [stupid PC--this station just has a mind of its own--she tries another station and it won't work, so I print from here]
• [Punk poseurs arrive with green hair, pseudo-mohawks, and leather jackets (they make me giggle)]
• [Circ staff member does closing announcement FAR too early]
• [phone] Today's winning team's fight song, just the lyrics [I'm totally cracking up reading them to her]
• Pay for print jobs
• Chat with MLIS student about library 'stuff'

CLOSED!!!