Wednesday

What I'm doing between questions: if I wasn't chicken-hearted, I would SO be at Librarian J's house right now beating her with a lead pipe for taking the day off because her cat is sick when we are at less than half-staff all week with one sickie librarian and one injured librarian (both here today so far), and one vacationing librarian--and at least one other other librarian not feeling 100%. Not to mention the vacations and sickies at the circ desk! 

12:00 in the children's room in adult area after we rearrange things (see below)

• Sent the sickie home and told her NOT to come back tonight--I will
• After consulting with Librarian B, I will cover Ref now while she deals with a time-sensitive project for Head of Circ (who is on vacation), then I'll go home and come back at 6 and work till 9
• Strange guy who says I helped him out with something yesterday [could be, though he doesn't look at all familiar] wanders by, stops to chat randomly, and then goes and gets online [whatever]
• Pay to print, and help with printing
• Internet books [eventually, books about blogging and facebook etc.]
• Pay to print
• No, I need ID to look up your card number, sorry
• Card expired, I renew it thru tomorrow so she can use the internet
• Catalog not working [well, it does if you are patient and vaguely know what you're doing]
• Scratch paper
• Resume templates on Word
• Specific song off the Obsessed soundtrack, sung by a guy, can't remember name or title [and when I finally FIND a list of the songs, none of them look right or ring a bell for him--he'll ask his girlfriend and get back to us]

2:00

3:00

6:00 in the children's room

• Not a huge fan of split shifts, but here I am again, now feeling a little GI-unsettled myself
• Labradors on the Lawn [we don't own it, so I reserve it from another library and show her where some of the rest of the series that we DO own are {--grammar-death, victim of this day
• Our local group home of developmentally-delayed adults arrives for their weekly library outing:




One has a callous on his foot

One needs books on racecars

Bathroom key

One found the LIW books on her own and needs hand sanitizer

One guy has not stopped staring in this direction for 10 minutes--I think he's frozen

The callous guy is trying to distract the staring guy

LONG conversation with The Train Guy, whom I remember from years ago when I worked the night these guys came; he's very concerned about why Librarian M isn't here

Bathroom key is returned...by someone else...?

...15 minutes later, one caretaker is looking for the other one (who returned the key) as they are MIA

Now the OTHER caretaker is here, and the first one is gone! UGH

• Look up password [she's my oldest niece's age and has a daughter my son's age, omg]
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid : The Third Wheel [not here yet...SOOON!...I reserve a copy for him]
  
• Coloring paper and crayons
• Wimpy Kid kid looking for Frankie Pickle books [turns out they're too easy, but I find a brand-new Choose Your Own Adventure-style book and he agrees to give it a whirl]

8:00

• Printer in the children's room not printing, so I print her Word doc here...
• Mapquest directions to new doctor's office, and back
• I walk through the adult area and do the chair-pushing in, book-picking up thing [how does a chair get from one side of the nonfiction stacks across to the far side of the reference area??]
• Librarian T does closing announcement
• Pay to print, and a comment about something someone else left sitting here at the desk
• Librarian T tells me to "knock those two off" the internet [why--they shut down automatically at 5 till...?]
• Last minute question that turns into a nightmare....arrived at 8:55, not sure what books she wants, card is expired so placing holds is more complicated, and when I check to see what's going on ("I think I might have fines...") it turns out she owes almost $180! And "I haven't lived at that address in years!!" (Duh, honey: your card expired in 2009) Holy shit what a clusterfuck.