2:00
- Librarian C warns me about the crank on #6--surprise, it's the woman who needed a receipt last week...sigh
- Pay to print
- Pay to print...and tissues [we commiserate about allergies]
- Nearby library cardholder need to use our internet; I enter her into SAM
- Dude needs a mouse [I guess we now loan those too...what don't we loan??]
- And the woman who asked if I was pregnant last week is back as well...
- Another from last week: needs extra time online [at this point, I don't even care about rules--have more time, you're one of the normal ones!]
- And crazy-preggo is back asking about two books she "saw last time back here in nonfiction and should've picked up but...blah blah blah..." [one ends up being a elementary-school age novel, and the other I can't find in the catalog: Cats in pictures, or ...in movies, or, ...on film. I take her to the cat books and turn her loose after issuing instructions to go in the children's room for the other book]
- Custodial guy: "It's HOT out!!!" [yuppers, good day to work inside: it's 94 degrees out with 65% humidity]
- Extra-time person: pay to print
- Receipt woman starts haranguing me about printing and so forth
- Consumer Reports on lumbar-support chairs [nada, but we find something in one of our online databases that I print out, and show him how to do more searching at home]
- Pencil and paper
- Receipt woman left--hurrah hurrah!
5:00
- Giggling kids about 25 feet from me [great--go in the children's room with them, grandpa!]
- Pencil and scratch paper [18 inches from your nose, hello!]
- Fax ["This is a beautiful library..."]
- "Someone left this at the printer" [Winesburg, Ohio?? <--(that edition) ok then]
- Librarian T calls to warn me that EE is here. She's a complete mental case, mostly a pain in the neck, but hard to get detached once she starts talking to you.
- Ethernet cable [his usual one, the yellow one, isn't here ... ooooh, noooz!]
- "What's today's date?" [14-year-old reading Econ for Dummies for his grandfather; he still has two weeks left to finish]
- Did I mention the gigglers are still here? One has a tail about 4 inches wide [he's, maybe, 6]
- [phone] Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (book) [yes we have it, and I put in on the hold shelf for her]
- Yesterday and today's want ads
- Fax [she literally has to scrounge from her child for the $3--not enough to use her debit card, and she doesn't have a library card...sigh]
- Police walkthrough [? or some guy in full security guard gear--I didn't really get a clear look]
- YA prize pickup
6:00
- Hmm, gigglers have left, but grandpa is still here...should I worry?
- Want ads are back
- The ...Wounded Knee lady is here, but her book is on the hold shelf; anyway, while she's here she goes through the job folder, to no avail
- Pay to print...and he's the guy that left Winesburg, Ohio behind earlier...he's happy to rediscover it
- "Good books" [the YA prizewinner...she reads a LOT...and I come up with three suggestions for her...eep]
- Sherlock Holmes, for EE who is chatty, but not out of control like sometimes [and of course we have it]
- Modern Marvels [yeah, the DVDs have all been shifted so I have no idea where stuff is either, but we eventually find them...ok, he eventually finds them. lol]
- And Librarian T arrives at 6:30 to rescue me :-)
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