6 - 9 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions:

6:00

• Corrections officer test, and the ASVAB [ nice-looking guy, wearing a Marines sports T, here with his ?sister? 
• Pencil, for tutor and student; she's learning to use the catalog [ok, the tutor is a bit of a pain, but MAD propz to her for doing this for her ESL student!]
• Stapler
• Jobs folder
• Our Mormons arrive--in their uniforms today :)
• Pay to print
• Reset time for one of our regulars
• The Lost Boy (Pelzer) [yup we have 4 copies on the shelf for a change!]
• Readalikes for someone who has read all the non-mystery J. Patterson, all Danielle Steel, all Nicholas Sparks...[I suggest R. P. Evans--this is someone from circ asking for a patron who didn't want to walk "all the way" back here...]
• Smallville Season Two [ours is checked out; hold placed]

7:00

• Stapler jams, and in the process of trying to unjam it, I slice open my finger. At least it's my LEFT finger...and at least we actually have bandaids
• "I'm here to pick up my Summer Reading Prize!" [uhm, yeah...where are they? I end up having to call Librarian M to ask where she hid them: "Oh, crap, I forgot to send the email out to everyone!"]
• Pay to print [the stapler dude] ; and more stapling, which works this time (new stapler)
• Trusts and estate planning
• "How to talk so kids will listen..." [we no longer have a copy...]
• [circ desk] "If someone has a [nearby city] library card, can they use our databases and ebooks?" [nope, they have to use their home library]
• Spy Kids films [in the kids' room, and dude--have you heard of toothbrushes, cuz it looks to me like you have NOT---guuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhrossss]

8:00

• Long complicated question about a Harlequin series, which we really don't buy much of, and then it turns out she's the person with a  [nearby city] library card so I can't get anything for her anywhere else
• [phone] Two brand-new horror films [I do order requests for them] 
• [phone] Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box on CD [we don't have, but I place hold]
• New Abs Diet for Women [place hold; we don't own]
• [request in box at circ for new Lorien Legacies series book--do order request for it]
• [closing announcement done...as well as a lot of the closing routine]
• And I'm outta here!!