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??
- 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...
- 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....
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