Monday

What I'm doing between questions: I have about a gazillion RSS updates I have been ignoring for a month...time to clean that pony up and make it rideable again. Also, subject headings...zzzz

1:00

• Immediately, new guest SAM user, which somehow gets snarled. I end up deleting and reentering him and it finally works
• Bang bang bang goes the mouse-finger on Reference #6...yes, it's quiet enough that this is what I'm hearing
• Man walks past, doubles back and then double-takes when I say, "Hi there!" in greeting. What can I do for him? "Just wanted to say thank you and tell you, again, how incredible this library is." [wow, I've never seen him before, but gee it's nice to hear that!]
• Today's classifieds
• ValueLine (and other mail) arrives so I go put that out; I'll miss that when they stop the paper edition
• Scratch paper, and can she use a study room to make a quick call [sure, Pet Mormon, sure]
• Classifieds are back
• Refresh time for the mad clicker
• Return of "pencil" (looks like a pen to me) borrowed before I was here
• Pay to print
• Guest SAM guy leaves...very polite, and yet...I'm a little weirded out by him

2:00

• Help attaching a document in YahooMail, the Spanish template
• Ethernet cable for a different cable guy
• [meanwhile phone is ringing off the hook]
• Reserve "Relidj-yoolous" [Well, it's actually "Religulous" and it's here--and OMG, "You have movies on THIS side of the shelves too? Documentaries are my thing!"]
• I love my Chucks
• Help printing/Pay to print
• [phone] "Can I get an absentee ballot from you?" [Nope, the County Court Clerk at the Courthouse. Then he argues that "The County Center" isn't a courthouse. Uhm, yeah, there are courts there.... But no we don't do voting, just registration. He has the "County Building's" number memorized...hmmm. (And yes it is a courthouse, goddammit (in my head))]
• "Thank you" from Yahoo lady
• Regular Ethernet Dude arrives for 'his' cable
• Resumes...and the History of Art
• How to get online....thankfully, it was a bloop, the connection works fine
• One day, I'm going to keep a tally of how many times I say hello to people and how many times people say hi to me (as in, how many people just walk by and say hi)
• How to print part of an email
• Bone series (Jeff Smith) volume 9 for a kid, and "maff test buuks" [Bone is no problem, but the "maff testink buuks" for 5th grade? No. School library, and the kids textbook are your go-tos there]
• Slightly odd woman (a.k.a Mouse-Basher, above) comes over and whispers, "Have a good day!" on her way out. Then goes and pushes in several chairs and leaves.
• Our volunteer magazine shelver comes up and asks if "an older woman" just came and asked for help finding an obit [no]; now she's panicking and wildly looking for her so she can get my help [sigh...thanks Volunteer]
• ...and Vol. finds her in the bookstore and reports back to me; I guess this is known as being forewarned?
• Guest SAM user (see above) returns--"Can I sign on again?" [sure, and sadly, I even remember his pass number]
• I have a bad feeling about the next ten minutes--like I could get trapped here after my shift ends at 3
• Scratch paper
• Guest User leaves again, and says goodbye again
• Somewhat off-the-wall woman needs scratch paper to write down a soup recipes...and I'm regaled with a (short) soup dissertation before she leaves again
• High-school-hoodie-wearing kid needs the stapler [nice kid, but...why not in school??]

4:00 in the children's room

• Kleenex [none in here, so I steal the circ desk's box]
• Key for "girl's bathroom"; and some help using it
• Bathroom key
• One key is back
• Where's the restroom? [I send her to the adult area, as she is {ahem} an adult (without child)]
• Other key is back
• Bathroom key [yes, these are all different people]
• "I'm leaving for coffee, will be right back. Boyfriend's in Reference if my kids need anything" [she is here every day and her kids are self-sufficient tweeners who behave so I'm not overly fussed]
• Bathroom key is back
• Pencil for homework [we're down to golf pencils so I send her to the Adult desk]; she comes back in a couple minutes: "Where's the adult desk?" [oops--I walk her over]
• Husband calls to ask for my Gmail password so he can sync my new smartphone at the Sprint store
• ...and calls back because it didn't work [seriously, I have to type it up to get it right!]
• Battle of the Books list for West... School
• Coffee mom is back
• BoB list is returned; she found a book
• Bathroom key (2 girls, sharing)
• ...and back (giggling)
• DVD movies? [her eyes get huge when I point to the wall-o-movies in here]
• [phone] Renew books

5:00 in the children's room

• My new phone is here....yay!!
• 13 by Lauren Myracle [we don't own and she doesn't want to reserve]
• How to print
• Holes and The Outsiders on DVD [we don't have Holes, but I put them both on hold since our Outsiders is checked out]
• Good Dog, Carl [our copy is not where it belongs :-( ... but it turns out to be on the hold shelf for her :-)]
• Do backpacks count as one item? [yes]
• Can't get online [I delete his temporary number and move the money from it to his actual card, delete his password...and hopefully it'll work]
• Ethernet Guy comes by
• Refill paper tray

6:00 because Librarian K went home early with pain from his stitches--he 'tried' to cut off a finger yesterday or something

• Family with kids who need to do homework but all cards are blocked because they all owe money; after totaling it up ($160+) I go ahead and give them passes for today, but warn them that this is the ONLY time we can do that until they talk to Head of Circ and work out a payment plan
• Help with printing x 2
• AP US History test books...he's Irish, and taking the CLEP but AP test are close enough for studying [nothing here, but at the next city over there is something]
• Proctor a test (on World History) for home-schooled high school kid [how freaky that I'd get these two questions together]
• Pay to print
• How to spell "versteht"