Wednesday Evening

What I'm doing between questions: Crazy Cat Lady is on her 73rd vacation of the year--ok, not really, but she's gone SOOOOO OFTEN....--so I'm holding the fort tonight. Reading reviews, checking end-of-year Best Books lists against our catalog, and hoping all the weirdness happened in the 5-6 hour (pages fainting, DVDs returned dripping in some sort of oil/lotion, people battling over study room use, etc.

6:00

• Tutor wars have commenced; first chore of the evening is to remember to go boost one of the people in a Study Room in 10 minutes so next person can use it...yay
• Look up library card number for internet usage ["[Librarian H] would have made me show ID"--and the patron is probably right, but we all know her so that's just stupid]
• Next tutor is her for her room
• "I can't get online" [her card # isn't in the system anymore; there are three other people with her name in town, and none of them have the same birthdate, so she's needing a new card...]
• ...and Circ thinks she got deleted by accident so rather than issue a new card, they're looking for her original application [!!] to reenter
• [phone] Phone number for Good [...] Hospital in [city near us] [dude was JUST HERE--I watched him walk out 10 minutes ago after playing today's chess game online...wth]
• Walk-through
• Tutor needs headphones for her charge
• Dirty looks issued to girls goofing off at the table behind me [wonder of wonder, it seems to work]
• Dude uses pencil on the fly and almost literally flings it back on the desk when he's done

7:00

• Group home folks arrive [they're late--usually they arrive about 6:20]: first request is tractors for the usual guy
• Life insurance lackey is back--he's here a couple of times a month--to fax two patient's data forms to the company; $12 later...yikes
• And he starts pumping me for info about who does our wellness stuff for insurance...sigh 
• Walk-through, and double-check that everything's ok at circ [they never found the card app for the missing account from the last hour--very weird]

8:00

• "Do you loan laptops?" [not even]
• [same woman] "Do you have headphones?" [she manages to miss the point that I have some for sale for a buck, but otherwise no]
• Reference printer is "very low" on black ink so I retrieve a replacement so we aren't running laps when it finally goes. Oh, and I refill the paper while I'm over there
• Walk-though, pick up strays and do a quick head-count
• Waiting on two stragglers: one reading the paper, the other zoning out in a study room EVERYONE ELSE IS GONE
• 8:58 and they are headed toward the door...finally