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Feb. 20th, 2014 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThree things about today:
1) Okay, so, this is the most horrible/hilarious thing that has happened to me this week. At Kingston, we have a patron who is somewhat brain damaged and he comes in every day for movies. We end up putting a lot of things on hold for him. On Tuesday, he asked me to put Primeval on hold, so I got him the first season. Today, he came in, picked it up from the hold shelf, and walked it over to my desk.
Patron: I'm just going to turn this back in.
Me: Oh, was it not what you were looking for?
Patron: No, it is. It's just, it's got four discs and I don't have a four disc player.
I hastened to assure him that you play the discs one at a time, not simultaneously, and he took the set home. So now he knows he can get tv shows from the library and watch them successfully and I know why he's never taken home the first season of SG-1, despite having put it on hold multiple times.
2) Today was the first of our two Crafternoons this month and was the one I wasn't expecting anyone to come to, due to the snafu over the date. So I got to sit in the cavernous room next to the library, at a table all alone, facing the door in case anyone came in. It's not possible to get to the library without passing that room, so basically I got to be the creepy solitary knitting girl, staring at all our patrons. (I did say hello if they looked at me.)
One of our chattier patrons did actually come in and ask me what I was doing, so I got to explain the situation with her. And she told me that she wants to learn to knit, so I gave her a beginning book and some recommendations on first projects and what supplies she'd need for them. She promised to come back next week for the Crafternoon that got actual advertising. Winner!
3) I got a hold today that I remember placing, but it was a couple months ago and I have no idea now why I wanted it. It is Still Life, by Louise Penny, and is apparently the first in a series of mystery novels set in a small town south of Montreal. Possibly someone recommended them to me? I don't know. But the first 10 pages have been good, so possibly my inexplicable past self had the right idea.
1) Okay, so, this is the most horrible/hilarious thing that has happened to me this week. At Kingston, we have a patron who is somewhat brain damaged and he comes in every day for movies. We end up putting a lot of things on hold for him. On Tuesday, he asked me to put Primeval on hold, so I got him the first season. Today, he came in, picked it up from the hold shelf, and walked it over to my desk.
Patron: I'm just going to turn this back in.
Me: Oh, was it not what you were looking for?
Patron: No, it is. It's just, it's got four discs and I don't have a four disc player.
I hastened to assure him that you play the discs one at a time, not simultaneously, and he took the set home. So now he knows he can get tv shows from the library and watch them successfully and I know why he's never taken home the first season of SG-1, despite having put it on hold multiple times.
2) Today was the first of our two Crafternoons this month and was the one I wasn't expecting anyone to come to, due to the snafu over the date. So I got to sit in the cavernous room next to the library, at a table all alone, facing the door in case anyone came in. It's not possible to get to the library without passing that room, so basically I got to be the creepy solitary knitting girl, staring at all our patrons. (I did say hello if they looked at me.)
One of our chattier patrons did actually come in and ask me what I was doing, so I got to explain the situation with her. And she told me that she wants to learn to knit, so I gave her a beginning book and some recommendations on first projects and what supplies she'd need for them. She promised to come back next week for the Crafternoon that got actual advertising. Winner!
3) I got a hold today that I remember placing, but it was a couple months ago and I have no idea now why I wanted it. It is Still Life, by Louise Penny, and is apparently the first in a series of mystery novels set in a small town south of Montreal. Possibly someone recommended them to me? I don't know. But the first 10 pages have been good, so possibly my inexplicable past self had the right idea.
