1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions: collecting all the books left laying around and sorting them onto a shelving cart (yes, it's supposed to be done by teenage pages, but most of these things have been sitting around waiting for over a month), fixing the call numbers for foreign films [unfinished], and prepping the Demand order for entering.

1:00

• "Those terminals don't have the internet on them"
• "Call of the Wild" only with lots of commentary about the area and the author...no author, no year... [can't find it; she's going to call her friend who has it and ask for some more info and call me back]
• Classified ads
• "Check the kids' room for open internet stations"
• Magazines from 2001 [I introduce her to microfilm--"COOL!"]
• How do I find books in my Lexile score? [damn--at least she knows what it is]
• Which computer did it assign me?
• Where is this book? [the new books section]
• Classifieds return
• When did Enron first hit the news? [World Book]
• Which computer did it assign me?
• Playgroup mom from 12 years ago--omg, is that her little girl??

2:00

• Where is this book? [eventually we find that he only needs to finish his bibliography; I show him the catalog record and introduce him and his friend to WorldCat citations]
• ...ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!!! Random memories:

  How to listen to CDs on the computer [I spend about 20 minutes off and on with him]

  How to print pictures...but I've never used a computer, and can't be bothered to learn now [probably close to 45 minutes]

  Scissors

  Do you have a typewriter?

  Circ person brings me a message to return a call

  Can I use a study room? [sure, go nuts!]

  Scissors come back to me, point first [niiiiice]

  The light bulb on the microfilm reader just went out [I go shut the machine off and turn it right back on...and it works again]

  Pay for print jobs

  Books on Rx drugs

  How to print just page one from Yahoo! mail [I can't get it to work]

  ....and I'm sure I've forgotten a ton of others...

3:00

• AAARGHHHHHHH!!! Panic stations continue....till about 3:20
• Do I need to check in with you to use the internet? [nope]; but I can't remember my password [I look it up]
• I need to type something up on Word [good luck with that--I send him into the kids' room to see if there are any workstations available there]
• Call back message--do we have anything by a group called "Ten Years" [no]
• [I go check to make sure the rest of the building is under control--so much for trying to do that a couple of times an hour...]
• How do I find the résumé template in Word? [Start Bar--oooooh]
• Pay for print jobs
• Of course: the mom-and-kids from hell are here [she calls 'em "little bastards" under her breath when they misbehave...which they seem incapable of not doing]
• Paper needed in printer [uh-no]
• CD-listener is done, but now what [I show him out to eject the disc and log off]
• Closing announcement done early [GET THE #&%*$ OUT!!!!]
• Pay for print jobs
• Stapler
• Peter Himmelman "Time Just Flew" guitar chords [lots of other songs by him, but not that one]
• Pay for print jobs x2
• Did my resume save when the computer shut down? [nope, sorry]
• FINALLY everyone leaves....