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Aug. 1st, 2009 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreIn which my job is occasionally totally awesome:
- I picked up a phone call this morning and the man on the other end said, "I'm trying to find out how to spell something. Y'know those worms that live in the water and bore into ships? I think they're called 'teredo'. Do you know how to spell that?" (As a matter of fact, I do. Hurrah for sounding things out as though they are words in my high school Spanish class!)
- A lady came in who's visiting from Arizona and wanted to know if she could get a temporary card. Not only was I perfectly willing and able to do that but we had a movie she'd wanted to see for months, right there on our shelf.
- One of our regular patrons - she's a little younger than me and a semi-closeted geek - came in this morning to pick up a hold which happened to be a Star Trek novel with Spock on the cover. She looked a little sheepish to be checking it out and I know that I am always helped with that problem by finding a kindred spirit, so I asked if she'd read any of Diane Duane's Original Series novels. She had not - in fact, this was her first ever Star Trek novel - but she looked a lot happier to not be the nerdiest person in the room and hell, I just got paid to talk about Star Trek novels. Overall win.
Three awesome things and we've only been open for less than an hour. Today is pretty damned good.
- I picked up a phone call this morning and the man on the other end said, "I'm trying to find out how to spell something. Y'know those worms that live in the water and bore into ships? I think they're called 'teredo'. Do you know how to spell that?" (As a matter of fact, I do. Hurrah for sounding things out as though they are words in my high school Spanish class!)
- A lady came in who's visiting from Arizona and wanted to know if she could get a temporary card. Not only was I perfectly willing and able to do that but we had a movie she'd wanted to see for months, right there on our shelf.
- One of our regular patrons - she's a little younger than me and a semi-closeted geek - came in this morning to pick up a hold which happened to be a Star Trek novel with Spock on the cover. She looked a little sheepish to be checking it out and I know that I am always helped with that problem by finding a kindred spirit, so I asked if she'd read any of Diane Duane's Original Series novels. She had not - in fact, this was her first ever Star Trek novel - but she looked a lot happier to not be the nerdiest person in the room and hell, I just got paid to talk about Star Trek novels. Overall win.
Three awesome things and we've only been open for less than an hour. Today is pretty damned good.
