Desk Time

Classes started up again, so I've been dealing with the backlog of people who are wither new and don't know how the system works (understandable) or people who have managed to forget everything over the summer. Well, or they did no research whatsoever in previous years, which I find sad, but believable.

Anyway, we're busy! Yea! I guess. I like having something to do and helping people, but sometimes I just wish the questions were a little less repetitive.

None of which has anything to do with the story that I have to share. So there's this one regular character who always comes in for a guest login. He seems fairly normal, for a regular, though he has the habit of talking extremely quickly. About everything. And he changes subjects a lot, too. But he's nice and he always smiles when he sees me, so I'm alright with him.

Anyway, today sort of shook my belief that he might be mostly sane. He came in and was excited to see me (since I've been half-timing it over at the Reference office, my hours at the desk have been cut), so he's chattering away when he knocks over the display. No problem, I tell him, he is not the first person who has done that and I can fix it easily. He gets really even more excited, which I didn't think possible, and says, "Oh, I'll fix it, I'll fix it, I did it, didn't I?" He puts all the cards back in and goes to stand it back up, which is nice of him. But then he keeps putting it on sideways and then laughing - really loudly - when it falls over! Finally I reach over and put it up straight; he acts relieved that it's fixed and heads off to a computer.

Such a strange encounter. I am not ready for this at 8am.