confessions of a very geeky library worker.

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at work we have these carts. they aren’t the standard Library Cart, you know the ones, they have bookshelves built into them on both sides? i mean, yes, we have those as well, but these two carts are just Rubbermaid rolly carts.

<tangent> damn, i found some pictures but i can’t use them because my hard drive crashed last week and mr. fleegan did fix everything however, he didn’t set up my ftp thing and i’ve no clue on that. so now i’m limited. i hate that. oh well, not a thing for it. instead of me posting pictures you’ll just have to make it up in your mind.</tangent>

these two carts roll really smooth. and it’s these two carts that the library uses to move books to and from the booksale. Joanie-balogna is our awesome cataloguer. so when people donate books that we don’t need in our collection and/or we’re weeding shelves of old books, it’s Joanie who cancels them out of the computer and places them on a cart. then when a cart is full or full-ish, i wheel the cart out to the booksale shelves, unload the books, and return the empty cart back to Joanie. not always mind, but i try to do it for her. she’s busy.

so, like i say, those rolly carts roll so smooth. and they’re very light when not loaded down with books. so on my way back from the booksale (and this is so geek that it’s nearly too shameful to confess, but that’s what this is about so anyway…) i pretend that i’m… okay, remember in Empire when they’re in Cloud City and they’ve been tricked by Lando and Han ends up in carbonite? but then at the last second Lando turns the tables and they get away and then they see Boba Fett and some stormtroopers and also those guys in uniform (i don’t know what rank those guys are. they’re in either black or navy unis.) are pushing the chunk of carbonite in front of them, but it’s not on wheels, it’s just hovering? remember that?

that’s what i’m pretending every time i’m returning with an empty booksale cart, that i’m pushing the hovering Han in carbonite.

BOOSH. i am well geek and isn’t mr. fleegan lucky?

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