11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ; 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions: catching up on the 404 unread Autocat postings since 11/14 (finished at 3:50, holyMarymotherofGod!).

11:00 [in kids' room]

• Key to restroom, and returned
• Other key to other restroom, and returned
• "Do I get a library card at the front desk?" [yep]
• [phone] Asks for Librarian C, but since she's not here today, "any other reference librarian" will do
• "Elephant Key Please!" [small child who used the Ladybug Key 25 minutes ago--lol), and returned
• [rather creepy guy comes in from the other room to print his documents, and stands and "hmm" and "uh-huhs" while doing so--ugh]
• IT guy appears, we chat

2:00

• Neuromancer [on holdshelf for someone else--I reserve it for him] and Dune [on the shelf, but so old the spine is hard to read]
• Gmail changed, so I go over how to compose a group email with an older patron
• Patron turns in random headband he found on the floor; I doubt anyone will remember it falling off here...but who knows?
• Magnifying glass to read the microfiche [it's actually film, but wevs, yo--and yes I actually found one in the drawer!]
• [Sir, those computers don't access the internet]
• Fax
• Pencil
• Pay for printing [and a quick tutorial on how to his document print]

3:00

• Books on Britishisms or, better, Canadianisms or Australianisms and what they mean in "American" [we.have.NOTHING--fail--so I show him some of the blogs I read, especially the one by Lynneguist, and leave a note for the Mad Weeder on staff to freakin' BUY SOMETHING in that section!]
• Magnifying glass returned
• Kingston card reader returned
• "Is Librarian C around?" [yep--more of the grant fooforaw that's been going on around here all week]
• How the Grinch stole Christmas [all copies on hold or checked out, doesn't want to wait]; Mortal Kombat, game or DVD [we don't own, doesn't want to wait; Rush Hour 2 [aha! success, plus RH3 is here too]
• Fax [guy looks disturbingly like a friend of mine]
• Scratch paper
• Pencil and paper
• Ethernet cable [ID taken and attached to note in drawer that says "USB thing"--in Librarian M's handwriting, and she's the techiest of us!]
• [time has officially stopped at 3:30...or rather slowed to a complete crawl...isn't it 4 YET?]
• Pay for printing
• Ethernet cable [another ID on the "USB thing" tag]
• Recycling bin time [and again I'm picking up stuff that didn't go IN the bin]
• Operation Family Secrets [on the shelf--woo-hoo!]
• "You have TWO horses here??" [yep, the other one is behind that pillar]
• [phone] "Can you find my old dentist's new addresss?" [couldn't find the guy]
• Scratch paper