Good God I'm Tired (aka, overheard at the reference desk)
Wow. Crazy day. Let's test my horrible memory and see if I can remember anything that happened today...
- Computer class students this morning want to send e-cards on Hallmark.com and look up grandson's baseball game schedule for the season.
- How to open an e-mail attachment (x500)
- Books about people with genetic anomalies
- Amelia Bedelia books
- Books about "the galaxy"
- Books about Sweden
- Books about "how goats think"
- You pick up holds at the Pickup desk (x500)
- You return books at the Return desk (x500)
- Internet passes (x500)
- A woman who signed up for our computer class tomorrow said she wouldn't be able to come, then asked me ten minutes worth of questions about her computer over the phone
- Information on the Stonehenge replica in Maryhill, Washington. I also showed him Foamhenge.
- Discussion about licorice ice cream. Yum.
- I told a woman all about our databases, then she told me that she was a librarian. How embarrassing.
- A guy wanted to go on the free train rides in Tacoma tomorrow. We figured out that he would have to take four buses, then walk two miles. I still think the guy might just do it- he was pretty determined.
- I Spy books, books about cake decorating, and books about food garnishing. All for the same woman with a really cute baby who kept trying to eat the stickers I gave her.
- We found a New York Times article from May in the "General OneFile." Why for ya gotta go change your name, Infotrac?
- Consumer Guide Automobile guide from 1998
- Young man couldn't access his college application on our computers. Smart computer services guy fixed it, but young man had to go and come back tomorrow.
- Another guy was irate because he couldn't get the "Coke Rewards" site to work properly. The website was really lame and cut off all the checkboxes necessary to check in order to submit rewards. Coke sux.
- A woman wanted "advanced" books for her 6 year old that didn't have "advanced" topics. She also complained about our summer reading program prizes. It's not the destination, it's the journey...
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