Friday

What I'm doing between questions: the ever-popular Death Dates*

2:00

• My son arrives in full meltdown-from-bad-grades mode...counseling and thrusting books in his hands ensues
• Mouse not working...
• And...mouse not working and screen flickering on my screen [these two computers are back to back; both had loose cables]
• Pay to print
• How much for color copies
• Staples/paper clip

3:00

• Son finally leaves, with a completely different stack of books than he started the trip planning to take home
• Pay to print
• Tax question approacheth: no we don't have (most of the standard) forms and have no idea when they'll arrive [stupid revenuers]
• Pay to print
• Pencil and paper
• Uploading to Nook [she takes a form, but doesn't have a laptop with here to do the ADE download]
• Tax forms [well, actually, we do have the EZ form...but no instructions...and nothing much else that she needs]
• Diamonds for a report [we have surprisingly little] * patrons sister snickers at my list title, thinks it's a joke, but still Made of Awesome when I tell her what it actually is {--geek love
• Pencil returned
• Stapler
• Pay to print [she just walked in, logged on while saying, "...if he doesn't like it my middle finger is up and he can sit and blow..." NIIIIIIIIICE and loud] Our favorite cop-caller takes about 90 seconds to shush her
• Librarian C comes out of the workroom with a double stack of materials--about 15" high, two standard book widths--and a paper plate with a piece of cake balanced on top. I start giggling and she fake-sternly says, "I have my priorities straight, ok?"
• Pay to print (and more stapling)
• How to draw manga, and did we find a cell-phone charger cable? [yes, and no...OH, an SD card from a phone? Yes, we have some of those....and he takes one of them he's sure is his]
• Pay to print [loud phone-talker]

Monday

What I'm doing between questions: review journals

1:00

• One of our regulars, as he's snagging some scratch paper: "What's the word today, girl?" [I got nothing, and say so, and he tells me that's a good way of keeping my ass out of trouble, to which I reply that my momma done taught me that same thing] 
• Pay to print
• Guest pass (has overdues on out-of-city card and she's waiting for the next Free Fines day in her town
• List from The Wife--I find two on the shelf for her--and Theodore and Woodrow is just about processed so I ask if it could be finished soon, and then report that it should be done in 10-15 minutes [and this is why I love smallish libraries, in a nutshell!]
• [circ] Did I pick up the distance book drop over the weekend? UGGGGHHH, forgot to write it in--haven't done that in awhile!!
• Do we fax? [yes we do] Can you take the money off my card? [yes I can] ; Do you have a stapler? [yes, I do]
• How to get a PIN [you make it up]
• [phone] Are tax forms in? [nope....sigh]
• Golf pencil has no lead [surprise...not]

Sunday

What I'm doing between questions: ha ha ha, on a SUNday?? And it being a Sunday, I'm not promising I'll get every interaction posted.

[email] Peanuts 1955-1956 (book) and a DVD about Baltimore's Memorial Stadium [I place ILL for first one, and find the second in WorldCat, but all copies are out of state, so I'm going to hold off on ILLing it till  I doublecheck with the ILL person]

Forgot my card #

How to use Powerpoint, and help with it [I explain how to get onto the computers with PowerPoint on them, but don't hold out hope for extensive help with the program since I've used it, like, ten times total]

LOTS of parents here to see their kidlets' artwork since it's going away tomorrow (yeah, thanks for waiting till the LAST DAY)

Two people needing help getting ebooks [and I spend over an hour with them, total]

PowerPoint woman is back needing help; I go get someone else on staff who knows what she's doing

I spent the next two hours helping a Nook user and a new iPad-mini user setting up to download e-material, interspersed with short questions like putting money on SAM accounts etc. Thank God there are two librarians here on Sundays now!

The PowerPoint woman and son didn't save their stuff before the computers all shut off, so after three straight hours of work...it all disappeared... :(

Saturday (Day One of 8 Straight)

What I'm doing between questions: death dates list, 

9:00 in the children's room

• Finally take the time to look at all the school district art that's displayed in here; as usual, some really fun stuff
• At 9:30 I hear a quiet cough from one of the out-of-sight computer stations...how did she get in here? I thought I was alone!
• At 9:43 a mom and her teenaged son walk in to use the computers
• At 9:49 a mom and her preschooler walk in to use the computers

10:00 in the children's room

• More kids and parents come in; holy cats, it's practically busy! ...zzzz
• Bathroom key
• ...is returned, and I find the last Clorox wipe in the building and thoroughly wipe down the wooden fobs and chains and keys having just read this morning about the spike in flu cases in the county [yes, I did get a flu shot, but apparently the number of people who did this year is way down]
• [phone] Librarian B. asking for us to save "a few" copies of the freebie local papers since her daughter's team picture is in it
• Another new walker stomps by at full speed...sigh
• Cleaning dude here to clean the bathrooms..and regale me with stories of his life in college...and remind me that the doorstop in one of the bathrooms is on life-support via frequent applications of duct tape. [note to maintenance guy]
• Keys are back

11:00

• Clean up of counter [yes, Librarian J has been out here for two hours and ignored EVERYTHING that's not right next to the computer she uses--she hasn't even logged on to the other one!]
• Pay to print --and for some reason the PDF bank statement won't print her name/address, which is clearly on the screen [she finally figures it out]
• Librarian T comes out from the workroom and twitters around about stuff, unhelpfully mostly
• I finally get this computer logged on and start dealing with the piles of stuff
• Pay to print
• Circ person comes to show me someone's card number before she deletes it; for a former now-passed-away staff member :(
• [phone] Eat to Lose, Eat to Win [we don't own it, and she can't use books outside our library so I do an order request for it]
• [phone] The Round House by Erdrich [on hold, so I add her name to the list, and also update her phone number and email info]
• Help with printing, then pay to print [this is the werewolf, on her second round of printing today] ; also a book on Richard the Lion-Hearted
• Forgot password
• Help with connecting Nook to wifi with no success [weird--it won't access the net even though it shows it's connected]

12:00

• Books on exercise, stretching
• Can't log off SAM [I click around and eventually it closes--no idea what I did]
• "No, I'm fine, just needed a flat surface for a second..." [lol]
• "Why is the mouse zooming around? Someone has reset the speed" [uhm, no....and he argues with me, but it's the same speed as the one on this computer and the one at home and the one at my desk...though it is a newer, differently-shaped mouse--regardless, I can't reset the mouse speed as that's all locked out except for the IT guys]
• Downloading to Kindle [ah, but this particular title (The Fountainhead) has to be downloaded to a computer first and then uploaded, first time I've seen that with a Kindle! She is coming back tomorrow with her husband and the Kindle and iPads for hands-on help]
• Classifieds
• Look up password for internet
• "Check these out at the front desk?" [yeah, and dude: stripes on top with plaid on the bottom is a Very Bad Thing, no matter how stoned you were when you got dressed]
• "It says I can't....see the librarian" [lol] [well, she owes over the max fine so she can't log in]
• Pay for printing
• Classifeds are back
• Fine woman doesn't have enough money to pay down her fine AND print off the book report her kid needs to turn in Monday, so we give her a break and a temporary pass
• Librarian T is making me CRAZY chatting today [either find some work to do or come out here and do reference so I can do some work!!]
• Family member IMs me to bring home an eBay book [only one reasonable one is actually here--most everything else is checked out]
• Renew time [high fines woman--which leads me to believe that she's not JUST printing out her kid's book report...]
• The school district art show always brings in people who've never stepped foot in the building...makes me sad, and sorta smirky, but mostly sad
• [phone] Librarian T saying to give myself a hash mark for a reserve [sigh]
• Headphones

Thursday

What I'm doing between questions: the ever-popular Death Dates list...

12:00 in the kids' room

• Help custodial guy move the craft-room table back (he just mopped)
• Amelia Bedelia books
• Bathroom key, and a "warning" that she'll be back to ask questions because she doesn't know how to find stuff without the cards (i.e. card catalog)
• Duct tape crafts
• Card catalog woman is actually not looking for kids' stuff, so I send her to the Adult Reference Desk (and call to warn Librarian J that's she's got a dinosaur on her hands)
• I do really adore watching new-walking kids...thump thump thump go the feet, with the butt sticking straight out and the top half of the body waving all over like a gyroscope to keep balanced
• Good series books for a 12-year-old (with dragons) [Oh how I love booklists!!]

2:00

• Borrow a highlighter? [we actually have one in the drawer!]
• Scratch paper
• Help with photocopier
• [phone] Walking Dead Season 1 [thought we owned it, but we don't--nevermind, she 'needs' it tonight]
• Look up pin for internet access
• [phone] My Brother Sam Is Dead [checked out, the ebook too...guess what: it's an assignment!]
• Pay to print
• Books 3 & 4 of the Kauffman Amish bakery series [we don't own them, so I place them on order from the libraries that do] ; also, did anyone turn in a silver flash drive in the past couple of weeks? [no, but I've got black, orange and blue in the box--at least they are all dated now]
• Where are the current magazines? [in the reading room]
• When is the new George R.R. Martin book coming out? [uhm, probably at least 3 years yet]
• Human anatomy [612]
• Help with ProQuest
• Help with printer

Post New Year Weds

What I'm doing between questions: checking shelves for fubar books (mostly things that don't exist, never did, and were badly coded), and going through the cleanup lists as usual.

9:00 in the children's room (covering for a sickie)

• So far today, what I had planned to do has blown up: sick staff, and our email is down, OCLC hasn't updated death dates for over two weeks
• [phone] Renew book
• Dragonology [checked out, but we do have Monsterology on the shelf, which will serve till the dragons return]

11:00

• Paper and pencil
• Massive pile of requests which we don't own
• Pay to print
• Help with iPad downloading, help with Nook (two unrelated patrons)
• [I call for backup as there are now 4 people waiting]
• Internet day pass
• Help with Kindle
• Pay to print
• Print off more "How to download with Apple/Kindle/Android" brochures
• Help with iPhone downloading
• Print more "How to..." brochures, this time for Nook, etc.

3:00

• Native American rugs, collecting, prices, etc. [nothing in the building, but I find a website with some info]
• How to wallpaper
• Media card reader returned
• Pay to print
• [phone] Book for a book group
• "Can I use that computer?" [gang tats a-go-go--yes]
• I have to go tell a very sweet girl with a lovely voice that we can all hear her singing cuz the study rooms = not soundproof
• Phone book for [county]; map of [city] [I go ahead and tell him the street he's looking for is one block south...if he follows that toward the outskirts of town, it changes names to the one he's looking for. This city is weird]
• Classifieds
• Help with Zoosk (oh dear GOD!)
• I.D. asks me to look at Director Evaluation questions and see if I can find a way to make nice even (lower) numbers instead of 14 and 6
• Several new DVDs on hold for patron