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Labels: dumbasses, primal scream, tax forms, tax season
Labels: bathing, homeless, snow, washingJan 30, 2009
There has been an almost certainly homeless man frequenting our location for a few weeks now. He was recently told that he had been taking too long in the men's room (forty-five minutes to an hour with the water running). It was pretty obvious that he had been bathing and/or washing his clothes in there. He has apparently found an alternate method of cleaning at least his garments, for this morning he emerged from the men's room (after a reasonable period) holding a hooded sweatshirt. He then proceeded out of doors, and we observed him rolling the sweatshirt around, over and over in a snowbank. He then donned the sweatshirt over his large, bulky winter coat, and reentered the building. Once inside, he sat down for a computer session and allowed the snow to melt. At least he wasn't dripping with it.
Labels: cell phone, laptop, spywareJan 26, 2009
Overheard in the library: a patron on her laptop asking advice of someone on her cell phone, “I got on the Internet ok but I don’t know what Spyware I should download”
Labels: CD, Gilbert Library, vomitJan 23, 2009
There are very few things that I can’t put on a professional face and rise above. I will say that vomit is one of these things. I can’t stand hearing people throw up. If you are sick, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD don’t come to the library or any other public place. I don’t want to catch whatever it is that is making you throw up. I don’t want to hear you throw up. I am NOT going to clean up after you.
Today a man went into the restroom, which is right up front in our lobby area, not far from where I sit. In the echoing restroom he coughs for about five minutes and then vomits. Loudly. This is repeated two or three times.
this is bad enough
He then leaves the restroom, sits down at my desk, and while gasping and wiping his face with a handkerchief ASKS ME TO RESERVE 30 CDs FOR HIM.
What the hell.....
I’m deathly ill and throwing up, but I just gotta have those Doobie Brothers cds. Better head on down to the liberry!
Labels: slackersJan 15, 2009
There are 5 supposed contributors to this blog. Where is everybody? I seriously doubt that nothing interesting ever happens at other libraries.
On another note: It's colder than a witch's tit out there. Why are people still coming in wearing shorts and flip-flops? Don't complain about the cold to me. And when did hoodie sweatshirts become acceptable winter coats?
I'm starting to sound like my granny.
Labels: book, book on cd, Monday, movieJan 12, 2009
First phone call on this lovely Monday morning:
"I saw online that you have a book available and I want you to hold it for me."
"Certainly. Just let me go check the shelf to be sure it’s actually here."
*pause*
“Thank you for waiting, sir. We do in fact have the book you requested available. What name should I hold it under?"
"No, I don’t want a book. It’s a movie."
"The book you requested is not available as a movie. It’s a book."
"That other thing then. Where they put the voices on a CD."
"A book on CD?"
"Yeah. That."
Labels: crowd, insanity, internet, putersJan 9, 2009
Today’s Internet line-up:
Computer’s one and two have asked me three times for a pencil. (the same people each time, and they are here together. Each time I remind them that there are pencils in the cup next to their computer monitors.)
Computer three is surprisingly empty so far.
Computer four is a college age girl who keeps muttering “Oh shit, oh shit” under her breath like a mantra.
Computers five and six are mysteriously empty
Computer eight keeps coming up to my desk and demanding that I make his webpage smaller so he can see the whole page without “using the scroll thing.” Another task for my not-issued-yet magic wand.
Labels: bored, cunt, cussing, fuck, library catalog, profanity, shitJan 8, 2009
After reading another library blog: http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/01/08/library-of-profanity, and being besides bored out of my mind, I did what any bored reference assistant with a computer below the age of thirty would do: I looked up dirty words in the library catalog.
Our library has 65 distinct entries with the word fuck in them. Interestingly, in some entries, such as “The Ice Opinion: who gives a fuck?” The word is blatantly in the title with no alteration or censorship. But, in the entry for the movie “Fuck,” the title is entered as F—k. Guess it depends on who was entering the cataloging information that day.
Typing the word “cunt” brought up an entry for “Inside the Hornets Head: an anthology of Jewish American Writing.” I’m still not sure why. I couldn’t find the word anywhere in the catalog entry.
Shit had no less than 93 distinct entries, my favorite being “Farfrompoopin: when shit doesn’t happen.” Although again, the word shit was censored in the main title, being entered as sh*t. But in the catalog entry itself shit is listed with its letters intact. Kind of lazy censorship, if it’s ok to view the word through clicking on the catalog entry, but not on the main title screen.
I get a perverse pleasure out of knowing that my library has more profanity in it than the Swiss Army Librarian’s does.
