Thursday

What I'm doing between questions: whatever I can find to do: checking new materials in the catalog, Dead Deweys....whatever it takes

10:00 in the children's room

• Ten minutes late due to running around checking Tech Service for stuff in processing
• "Can anyone use that room?" asks a dad pointing at the door to the craft/storytime room [uh, no--but THANK YOU for asking first!]
• Same guy, as he's leaving, drops off the Community College catalog he's done with "for someone else to use"

11:00 in the children's room

• 45 minutes and several families in and out, but no need for me to be here otherwise
• ...and half an hour after that (11:45) I am alone in here; another five minutes and I'm calling it safe to leave

4:00

• Look up password
• Darkest Hour on DVD [ours is checked out]
• [phone] OCLC calls to tell me they can't figure out why two records refuse to export into our catalog ; since I'm here, I can't really get into it with the tech, though, so I'll play around again tomorrow
• Constitution. The most current one [lol--for GED (or INS?) test]
• May have to go apply some Quiet Down in one of the study rooms, and also in a corner where there are 3-4 kids grouped around an internet station...which is directly in my line of vision beyond this monitor 
• No, two of the kids in the study room just left...now I can see that there are two three MORE kids who were sitting on the floor. WTF is going on??
• Fax
• Dude walks across the reference area in the lowest possible gear; every step makes me think he's going to fall (literally) asleep before he gets where he's going... 
• One very mentally ill--and perhaps seriously physically ill--woman asking about GED books, and tells me her life story: kidney problems, husband in jail, kids (??somewhere), "none of this" is her fault, didn't take all her pills this morning, a friend's coming to get her and maybe take her to the hospital...man, I'm worried she's going to walk outside and get hit by a car
• Scratch paper & pencil
• Help with copier
• Kids' room needs help finding realistic fiction [I hate these assignments--and this kid is a non-talker to boot, but I send him home with Frindle]

4:00

• Media card reader 
• [phone] Two messages left at some point this afternoon: Postmortem is checked out so I call and tell her...blah blah blah...and the other is for the audiobook of The Shack, which we have and when I call I think he's thrilled [why is everyone behaving like they're stoned today?]
• While I'm doing that, someone starts asking about how much we charge for faxing ($1/page) and can't believe it's so much, "you can overnight stuff for less!", and it doesn't cost us anything after all... [uhm paper/ink (for the confirmation page), and MY TIME?? --but I say none of this]
• Slipknot CD [yuppers]
• Fax [ironically, she arrives in the middle of me typing up my rant above]
• Cute little girl gets ejected by her dad from a computer station because she's too young and just banging around ["but I want to twy it!!"]
• More shushing, different kids
• Holy-moley, all the internets are in use! Weird
• After some eyeballing and careful listening I determine that yes, I can hear what the guy 25 yards from me is listening to in his headphones...holy hard-of-hearing, dude!
• Pay for printing [and I check the paper level in the printer...and refill it]
• Problem with security crap that someone downloaded on a computer [I move the patron to another computer, shut the problem one down, restart it, and it's all good]
• "My internet log in expired?" [they do that, so I renew]
• Pay to print 
• Wrong edition of a book arrived in ILL--I cancel it and reorder the correct edition
• "Can I use the study room?" [yup, those books are left from the slobs in there before]
• ...and I'm so out of here!!