SORELY BORED

I'm so bored at work this week. Students don't bring many reference questions during finals week. The depth of their questions remain along the lines of - transfer me to the people who deal with fines, where can I rent movies, can I see the citation manual? Most requests they make for books end in fruitless searches, as their fellow students who don't procrastinate have already checked out ALL of the books on any particular topic.

Easy questions. No thought necessary. But makes for slow and extremely mind-numbing 3 to 3 1/2 hour shifts. I also picked up a couple of shifts this week for a friend who moved away on Monday. So here I am, working for the 4th day in a row with 2 more ahead of me. Langourous.

I waste the time here by chatting with friends, emailing everyone I can think of, and talking with my coworkers. One of them, my favorite librarian to work with, ceaselessly makes fun of me for always being on Gmail when he walks by. Today he said, "What're you going to do when you don't get paid to email people any more?", referring to the upcoming end of my tenure here. "Oh, I guess you don't have that long to wait before you begin your new job and can get paid there." He grinned somewhat maniacally as he walked away.