Thursday

What I'm doing between questions: back to those subject lists (I'm basically caught up with cataloging, so this is my life now).

11:00 in the children's room

• Not a soul in here when I start--lovely, quiet, clean...sigh
• But at 11:06 a grandpa (presumably) and his grandson come in
• Storm Runner and something by Rick Riordan about Egypt? [got 'em both, the latter being The Red Pyramid]
• Definitely Grandpa Day in the children's room: two more came in with their kidlets...
• Cleaning guy wants to know how long after the program the dog will be here Saturday...I wouldn't count on it being very long....
• Time for lunch!!

1:00 in the children's room

• Ooooh, there are 3 people in here on the computers when I arrive: a wild crew (NOT)
• ...and it never got busier, and no one needed me...

4:00

• Two very needy little girls and their also very needy mom are making me absolutely crazy; and no, if our IT guy can't fix Mom's new tiny laptop, neither can I
• Red Ink... we don't own, but if we did, it would be in 336.73 so he goes to hang out there
• Now the girls are drawing, and sharpening the golf pencils every 2.43 minutes; did I mention they aren't wearing shoes? And they're loud. OK, the one is only about 4, but holy shit they're annoying, also cute. Dad just arrived so maybe he can keep them in line....
• Guest internet pass for a kid
• Look up card number
• Dude with pink hair has a new look: Eastern European army had and long brown trenchcoat (at least the had covers the pink that is still streaking his hair...)
• Look up phone number for someone in Big City nearby [can't narrow it down for sure by name]; well, there's an email address [so I get him set up to create his own email addy so he can email her]

5:00

• Guest pass kid ran his time out and can't get back in--I tell him to come get me before it runs out next time and reset it
• Patron left about 6 requests here, all with publishers in the author line. One is a journal article, which (luckily) we actually have access to (I found it by googling the title and author when I couldn't find it in Amazon) [Printed it for her, then called]
• Staff: how to find reviews in TitleSource (Baker&Taylor)? [middle of the page for the item...]
• Mom of twerpy kids wondering about a box that popped up [it's just letting her know her time will be extended]
• Pay to print [discussion of how much color ink costs]
• Mom of twerpy kids brings back ethernet cable
• I check in as the new-email dude leaves to be sure he knows how to get on the next time he comes in--he's getting a library card on his way out so we're set
• Pay to print--but when she prints it doesn't work--"could it be because I didn't have to log in to use the internet?" [uh, yeah--so I go reboot that computer and she decides to wait till later to get online and try again]\
• "Is that printer where everything goes?" [yup]

Tuesday

What I'm doing between questions:

6:00 in the children's room

• Anti-imperialism [uh, yeah, you should probably hit up the adult desk on this one...]
• Sad little boy doesn't want to leave; his mom says it's cuz he loves our big chair [I promise him it'll still be here tomorrow or whenever he gets back here]
• Books about counties [which ones?], any of them [ok, so they range from 940ish to 999, and eventually he picks Australia and heads off to Scouts]
• How to print
• "What's my password?"
• Looking for Alaska [so annoying--I can't find this anywhere: in YA where it belongs, here in the kids' room, back on the weeding cart, shelving carts...and was used yesterday according to the record in the computer, so .... dammit! Where is this book? I place a hold for another library's copy, but still!]
• How to get back in after locking the internet [Num Lock was on...]
• Why, oh WHY, do people walk behind this desk to get to the books behind me? I understand the desk is a semi-circle, and it's easy to do it accidentally, but to stare me in the face and saunter past me is just really freakin annoying....
• YA fantasy books [we have a long convo since nothing she wants is currently on the shelf]
• Alaska is now reserved for patron

Monday

What I'm doing between questions: feeling sick, generally.

1:00

• Fax
• Four leftover email questions we didn't do yesterday
• Two sort-of made-up words--how are they spelled? ("trailering" and "remodeler")
• Miss W asks me to proof a letter to the City Council et al. about a plaque being installed at the big winter fest
• One of the regulars needs a Spanish dictionary (not Spanish-English, just Spanish, and after I find one he didn't like it so he finds the one he wants--begging the question...why ask me if you know where it is??)

5:00

• Printer needs paper [and ink--though it's just low, so we're ok for awhile]
• The dictionary guy needs more time online
• "What's my password?" ["What happened to your foot??" and I give her her password]
• ...good Lord a bunch of stuff happened that I can't remember....
• Fax
• ...more stuff I don't remember

I'm totally going home now.....

Thursday

What I'm doing between questions: award lists. I'm down to the last 4: Book Critics Circle Award, Pen/Faulkner Award, Pulitzers, and Man Booker Prize. Of course, a couple of those are also the most convoluted. I'm still trying to figure out how to easily make a list of the Hugos....

1:00 in the kids' room

• Who wrote Half-a-Moon Inn? [got it]
• From the fish tank: "That fish looks like Tebow! Yeah, Tebow!" Grandma says "Tebow? Or Nemo?" "TEBOW! See he's orange and white. Tebow."  [I am totally cracking up]
• Chat with one of my son's 3rd grade teachers, and a current friend of mine, who is now retired and tutoring
• Kid at the computer nearest me has been playing a game the whole hour, without headphones on. I've enjoyed listening to him talking to and generally interacting with the game [quietly, but intense]

Wednesday

What I'm doing between questions: not much, don't feel good, probably going home as soon as  this shift is done.

11:00

• 11:30--first interaction: today's classifieds
• Metallica's "Reload" [yep, it's here, yay]

Monday

What I'm doing between questions:

11:00

• [phone] Hildebrand's Unbroken [two copies on the shelf, so I put one on hold]
• Guest pass for internet
• Pay to print 
• Complicated question--intro'd as a "dumb question"--involving the siphon effect and its limitations
• Fax
• Last week Sunday's NYTimes Style section [we forgot to get this week's out, apparently...]
• Value Line update (for the siphon guy) [I check the mail and find it for him--he's confused because one is updated...ah, because this is Monday and the other one came Saturday...the physics stuff has melted his brain]
• Help with logging on to (I remember from last year) write the annual Christmas letter [the question is : WHY do I remember this from last year??]
• Help getting online for the first time in eons.....
• Pay to print

1:00

• Fax
• Twilight movies
• Pay to print
• Jean Shepherd books
• Fax
• Help with printing
• Pay to print
• discussion with admin asst. re auto-comp time (something new)
• Pay to print
• Reserve some new books for a guy, including ordering the new Clancy book for him, and an ILL for an old CS&N disc
• Forgot password
• "Is the typing program off all the computers it used to be on?" [not that I'm aware of...shoot]

3:00 in the children's room

• No headphones on my computer [find another one to use, we don't have extras anymore)
• Child in play area commences full meltdown, screaming, throwing things, shrieking...ack
• Bathroom key
• Junie B. Jones books...