TUESDAY -- I got to the Children's Room at 5:05pm today. I was a bit late because I had a hard time finding a spot in the parking structure. Yesterday, I went over three hours and I ended up paying 75 cents for the extra 4 minutes. I got a bit upset over that :o) Today, I was able to get the car out in time and was not charged at all.
This night I worked with Arpine, and Cecil until 6pm and then with Evelyn and Halla until 9pm. I did pretty much the same thing as I did the day before...i.e. shadowing the reference librarians, walking the stacks, helped with printing, answered questions like "where is the toilet?" or lend out pencils, scissors, staplers.
The highlight of this night was reading the book: Gee Whiz! It's all About Pee. I learned so much about urine and its surprising and gross uses by humans and animals. For example, in the Roman times, women drank turpentine (a poison when ingested) to make their urine smell like roses...quite a choice to make, death or perfumed pee. I also learned that if there truly is reincarnation, I would not want to be a lobster in my next life. The book tells readers how male lobsters battle by squirting pee onto their opponents faces. Female lobsters on the other hand, leave chemical love notes to their target beau by peeing in the male lobster's lodging areas. How do they even find out about these things...please, someone tell me!
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Someone who has a lot of time on his/her hand watched and figured it out (either in the lab or lobster's natural habitat). But I wouldn't be surprised because it's a scientific finding that pheromones are used by living organisms to transmit messages to the same species. So the lobster may be using the pheromones in their urine to do the same. After all, how else would they transmit messages ... I don't think they emit sound ... if someone found out that they do, now that would be a discovery. :-)
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