Wednesday

What I'm doing between questions: mostly just chatting to people and keeping this up to date. It was a little busy!

3:00

• It's busy today--kids are out for conferences and the homeless are appearing...or something. Anyway, a LOT of faces, several of them new. And the usual people as well. Including:

The Operatic Farter: long, loud, musical, and occasionally stinky

The FOL Guy: super-nice, was in the paper last month for getting arrested for disturbing the peace & vandalism

Pirates of the Caribbean: NEW! tall skinny and hairy proto-hipsters x 3. Possibly meth-heads. Homeless?

Ponytail Gamer: used to be an aide with the SPED kids, now spends hours every day here playing a really weird game online.

• Return of Big City Paper That Gets Stolen if we leave it out
• Study room sign-in
• More time for a guest user whose time just blew up [I give her a new day-pass and extend her time immediately]
• Longish chat with FOL Guy
• How to print from a laptop
• Hello to/from family that usually comes in half an hour prior to closing
• Proto-Hipsters decide to leave, so they turn their iTunes to max volume for the walk to the front of the building [and I "no no no" them, and then realize the "Pirates.." moniker is for the shitastic eyeline one of them is sporting; the loud one says, "Sorry, I didn't realize..." dumbass]
• Commercial motor vehicle operator instruction series which is not anywhere in this state. After some back-and-forth, she decides one disc is fine to examine to see if she wants to buy the set for $600 on Amazon [and then I hear some random story about a doll? or something she bought from American Dollar Store that actually came from Amazon...blah blah blah]
  
• Sign in for study room
• Discover that there are old reserves sitting here--finish those up, including an ILL for Like Finding My Twin [I might snag this when the patron's done for a quick perusal]
• Laptop printing person successfully prints off a zillion pages [ I 💚 PrinterOn]

4:00

• ILL tech needs a port, so I volunteer the one I'm just finishing up with and log out
• The population is currently half what it was an hour ago....I'm that scary?
• Help with Excel test...do I get the grade too?
• Study room sign-out
• Librarian C needs a port ... and then 2-year-old patron and mom need to meet our puzzle horse
• ...and a lengthy gossip section ensues because Librarians M and KT appear with questions for us
• KT wants the teen series called "Prey" separated from the adult series called "Prey" in the catalog (duh, yes, I should know better)
• Help with Excel [I know NOTHING about charts and tables!] and she sort of thinks she's got it figured out anyway
• Guest pass and help with printing
• ....and DONE!!