9:00 in the children's room
- I'm running late, so I'm eating in the children's room -- bad example!
- Bathroom key x2
- Look up kids' card # [it's expired and has $4+ in fines, so I warn the mom and extend the time thru today, and leave a note]
- Head of Circ asks if I know if Librarian J is here ; no clue, though the light in her office is on so...probably?
- There are a TON of people here this morning--probably because there's no school, but still, weird
- Help finding a "girls game" online called Fantasyland Dress Up [snort]
- Check card for money for printing, tell him he has a DVD on hold, and he asks about the "new" Big Nate book (due out next February!), and reserve for the new Dashner book [VERY chatty, fun kid]
- Books on MLK, and a chat about why he was killed [with a six-year-old, uhm...]
- Bathroom key x2
- I'm asked to check out the dresses the Fantasyland girl has found for her avatar to wear...sigh...prom dress a-go-go ; also sea turtle movies [nope]
10:00 in the children's room
- YA Graphic Novels
- More time [for Fantasyland and her mom]
- Mom trying to put kid's shoes back on--this is a preschool (at the very least) aged kid, and the process is strangely silent as they wrestle on the floor [she eventually wins....silently]
- Can't get out of the game he's in [fixed]
- Email received from colleague: ocm50908541 I didn't realize that Star Wars characters were authors now. o.O [yes, Boba Fett has written a 20-page-page autobiography "with" a ghost-writer ..sigh
- Renew Fantasyland's card [front desk, sorry]
- Wayside School....[got it]
- "Where did my mom go?" [Fantasyland...probably to the desk to renew your card--and I log her out of SAM]
- Check out at front desk
- [phone] Reserve meeting room [being very unskilled in this area, I go ask someone else to do it and take her place at the checkout desk for 10 minutes, which is mayhem-ish]
- Good book for a 5th grader for a book report [since he's the kid who asked for the new James Dashner book before, I get Maze Runner for him to try]
11:00 in the children's room
- [phone] Event registration, which is more complicated than it needs to be because I don't really know what I'm doing
- "Did anyone turn in a wallet?" [No. Oh crap...she looks like someone ran over her dog--this is the silent shoe-wrestling-match woman]
- Help move craft-room table so custodian can mop
- Help printing an email attachment
- Lost wallet saga continues [I end up calling the cops, and the whole thing eats about 45 minutes of the morning]
- Spanish books for book reports
- "Where does the movie Rio belong?" [we have a copy in E and a copy in J, and it's wigging out our shelver]
That last item in the 9:00 segment made me laugh-hork my cereal - luckily I had my bowl handy and it didn't cause a huge mess.
ReplyDeleteOooh, Boba Fett!
I love the concept of "E" DVDs. Do they slide into the machine with less difficulty? Fewer options on-screen? (We have two categories: adult, juvenile. You no like? TOUGH.)
Yes, I thought of you when sea turtles turned up on conversation so abruptly.
ReplyDeleteI didn't create this differentiation, and I would be more than happy to use only J--we do just that with the music. {{shrug}}
The shelver's [who is actually a custodial employee hired from the local SpEd org] on the autism spectrum so it really doesn't take much to wig him out. Or talk....endlessly.