My reasonably average day

Rather than attempt to come up with something witty and intelligent about what I learned at university, I have decided to record my reasonably average day. The following was noted on Monday 1st November.

06:45-08:00 After about nine hours of heavenly sleep - wake up, shower and all that jazz.

08:00-08:20 Cycle to work on wonderfully empty roads via Tesco to buy smoked sausage meat.

08:20-08:30 Arrive at work, put lunch in fridge and put excess baggage in locker.

08:30-09:15 Check in journals and process them, as well as informing one supplier they have the wrong address.

09:15-09:20 Try to find one single circular red sticker to stick on a journal. Finally manage to find one.

09:20-09:30 Deal with reader enquiry - someone returned twelve books but the catalogue says they are still loaned out. 

09:30-09:55 Cover desk and classify/process a Legal Deposit book.

09:55-10:00 Delve into the depths of the stack to return a journal.

10:00-10:25 Attempt to figure out an inter library loan request from America for a thesis our library holds. Decide it's best to ask colleague.

10:25- 11:55 Shelving with an intermission to sort out previous inter library loan.

11:55-12:10 Stupidly start dealing with another inter library loan five minutes before intended lunch.

12:10-13:00 Lunch over Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly.

13:00-14:00 Cover desk whilst colleague takes lunch and attempt to do some reclassifying in between reader enquiries. Learn what is meant by 'black box' after interrogating a student about their books.

14:00-15:00 Intended to do some reclass but visitors to the department were blocking my way to the material so I did more shelving, or, tidying up the students' squirreling attempts.

15:00-15:20 Swarms of students arrive having finished lectures and, predictably, the PCAS (photocopying, printing and scanning) machines have a tantrum and die. Enter my 'expert' skills, the off-on trick.

15:20-16:40 Go to the Law Library to amend a messy essay for university on collection management and development.

16:40-19:00 Cycle to and work at my second job. I do some foliating of letters from the 1930s and assist with an interesting enquiry (a cataloguer from Lambeth Palace Library suspects an item they are cataloguing  is a satire on the Church of England rather than a true story of a man hanged for piracy and it is my job to scour our documents for these 'pirates' names).

19:00-19:30 Sit in a graveyard eating tea.

19:30-21:00 ring at St Thos.

21:00 21:45 Royal Blenheim

21:45-10:30 Cycle home and sleep!