Tuesday

What I'm doing between questions: checking rural card-user's holds, checking our orders and marking off what has arrived that I missed, and whatever else I can find to kill 6 hours of desk time instead of doing my actually (cataloging) job! grrr

1:00

• Clark Gable movies [doing a Shakespeare play and resetting it in the 30s, so all the actors have to research a specific actor and his/her style for their roles--cool idea]
• Circuit breaker form [and of COURSE the printer jams!]
• Do we have PPoint on the computers [he can't see the icon, so I show him]
• [phone] Updated card, password didn't transfer [all fixed now]
• Reserve a few Nora Roberts books for patron
• Pay to print
• How much is left "on here" [hands me his card--$8.75 because I know without asking what he's talking about, and God forbid I engage in conversation...]

3:00 in the kids' room

• Register to use internet [which, of course, doesn't work--but I think I've found out the rule for entering them, finally]
• Pencil [still not much here]
• Mom + 2 9-ish-year-old kids comes in, walk toward the "American Girl Dolls books"--they stop, mom mutters something to one of them, and they stalk back out [hmmm]
• Bathroom key, for a grownup, which I don't register till he's gone
• Key is back
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid books [he's so excited to see the one he wanted!]
• Same kid wants How to Train a Dragon [and he's thrilled to discover they are a series!!]
• Can a dad park his stroller by the desk while he wanders with his kid? [sure] Where are the Very Small Kids' books? [right over there]
• Bathroom key
• Wimpy Kid movies [ours are checked out so I place holds for him]
• Where to put books we don't want after all? [my hands...]
• Movies [from the Very Small Kids' guy]

4:00 in the kids' room

• Books "folkloricos" [stupid me--the only thing with that word I know is a dance troupe--it's the folktales assignment for dual language, duh]
• "WALK!" and "Slow down!" to one of our regular (cute) kids
• Rules by Cynthia Lord [here, got it]
• The circuit breaker dude from this morning is back [he told me earlier he'd just gotten out of the hospital last week, so I expect he's doing his laps to get back in shape]
• Author of The Magic Thief [yes, and it's even on the shelf]
• Questions from Librarian M about a new online subscription
• Bathroom key (and apparently too late, as the little girl comes to tell us she pooped in her pants)
• Books for Asperger's 5th grader

6:00

• Stapler
• Refill printer paper
• Look up passwords for two kids
• Computer #5 in the kids room isn't working so I'm chasing that down too
• Something I can't remember in there too
• Pay to print x2 (the lost pw kids)
• Pay to print
• Problem with overdue--we don't know what library the book she lost is from, so we don't know how to do the check
• Reserve an Atkins diet book

7:00

• Pay to print [she rattles off her number to me on her way to the printers...]
• Unused scratch paper returned
• Early- to mid-20th-century American art. Oh, and impressionism too [off we go to see what I can scare up]
• [phone] Supposedly there's a call, but when I answer it, they've hung up
• Ah but there is a message, which involves ordering a book from another library, but I can't do it for him since he hasn't got a full-use card...blah blah blah [he'll come in and pay the extra so we can ILL it for him]
• Study room? [pick one and take it over!]
• [phone] Doom 2 [doesn't exist in IMdB (with that name), sorry]
• Pay to print x2 [lost pw kids...yes, they are still here!]
• ...quick walkthru the adult area to see what's up at 7:50...not a hell of a lot I need to worry about....
• Except the guy on computer 1 who is hyper-sensitive to anyone else talking--he's been spinning around to glare at people periodically the whole time I've been here tonight [GO #*%*ing home!]
• I do go ask one pair of kids to quiet down a bit--the young man is totally polite and says, "That's on me, I'm really sorry!" Wow. Nice.

8:00

• [phone] Another computer froze in the kids' room; I walk through how to unlock the patron's card so they can use a different computer
• Ethernet Guy leaves the cable on his way out
• Pay to print, and then fax...and then she wanders away after I get our credit card site all ready for her [wtf?] AND she stole my pen! grrr
• Help printing in color
• Oh nvm, fax woman/family is still here but she's having trouble getting what she needs to fax to print...and I'm having trouble using our credit card site so we're sort of even
• Closing announcement
• [phone] Overly Familiar patron needs to reserve Eight Men Out on DVD [done]
• Meeting rooms and basement doors are checked
• What time do we open? [9] "You should be open 6 to 10...lol" [not...lol]
• Stapler...and the computers all shut down YAY