Again.
I don't usually mind this, because it gives me a chance to connect with my customers, to join with the forces of the students running amok studying in the library, to become one with myself through hard work. Yeah, right… more like to sit here and answer mundane questions like: “Can I use any of the computers here?”, or “How late are you open?”, or “Do you have any headphones?”, or, my current favorite, “Do you have a stapler I can use?” (as the student is standing right in front of a sign that says “Staplers are on the table behind you.”) I'm also awestruck at the people who come in while I am trying to help a student, and just barge to the front of the line and demand to be helped. In the span of 3 minutes of helping someone here, I've ignored two of them already.
Anyhow, It's boring work, but one of my student employees called out sick, while she was here, and asked for a replacement. It's probably not that she's sick… I think she's just overwhelmed with the semester - being that its one of her last - and she's feeling that. I've seen it in students before. Hell, I've lived it. It's Not Very Good Fun. This is why I come in to replace my employees, even while I have a son at home who isn't doing so hot himself.
But I do need to get some research done, myself, so I will do that, and make the most of my time here.
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