| 1:10p |
DAY FOUR (of eight)
Holy crow, today's been hectic. I got into work early and was downstairs switching everything on by 10am. By the time the other staff started arriving at 10:15 I was holed up in the workroom, halfway through the floats for my floor. There was only one other senior on with me today so we had a lot to do - by the time we'd sorted the money and the lunch rota and the sickness absence form for a staff member it was lunchtime.
I covered another floor over the lunch period, which was hilarious because I have no clue how to work down on the Digital Media floor. I got some new books from the workroom and processed them to make myself feel better.
An old guy came in needing to print something on A3 paper. You'd think that would be easy, but the A3 printer isn't connected to the public PCs, so I had to use a staff PC, go into the Australian archives, find the document all over again, fiddle with the settings and then print it off myself. (This was harder than it sounds.) I also had a guy who was making some kind of tribute to his cat, which he was doing via stuff he had on both a floppy disc (DO PEOPLE EVEN USE THOSE ANYMORE?) and a rewritable CD. Then he wanted to print it in colour, which, again, we couldn't do from a public access PC. We put it on a USB stick and then I got another member of staff to take over, because I couldn't handle any more at that point.
Then I made my escape and went back to my floor, where it was almost time to start the craft. Today we made loo roll phoenixes, which are much nicer than they sound. We got more or less all the kids who came in today to sign up for the reading challenge, so hurrah! I think we must have about 50 kids already, and we only launched officially yesterday. The rest of the afternoon passed in a blur - we were really really busy and I had to stay late to tidy everything up and get all the kids' avatars pinned onto our progress map on the wall. (Painted by my own fair hand etc)
Now I'm totes worn out. Pizzas and red wine tonight, I think. I've got an ECDL test on Tuesday that I've really had no time to even think about, so that'll be interesting. (And by "interesting" I mean "I might fail." It'd be a bit shit if I did, though, since it's the Internet and Email module.) |