1.03.07

Category: dribblings

Marian the Librarian- Day Two: The Quickening
the scanner wasn’t so finicky today so i didn’t seem like quite a drooly moron. just a regular moron. i answered the phone twice, and both times i was able to actually help the person on the other line. erm, but one of the questions was, “where’s the rainbow city post office?”
“…rainbow city doesn’t have a- oh wait, it’s inside Food World.” so yeah, working at the library is kinda like being a hero.
“help! i’m stranded in this gigantic new city and i can’t find the post office! where do i go?!”
“relax ma’am. calm down, you’re going to be okay. just go to the Food World. no, no, don’t thank me, i’m just doing my job.”

also, i’m “in charge” of the adult nonfiction books. this sounds cool as hell*, but what it really means is that when it gets slow at work i have to go through my section and make sure the books are in order. it took me an hour and a half to go through .001 to 371WAL. and while that’s a pantload of books…it’s not even half the section. and there were many books out of place which i did not expect…now the kid’s section on the other hand, it’s a damn nightmare, and i’m glad i’m not in charge of that lot. i panic just putting the kid’s books back on the shelves because their order is so screwed up and DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY RICHARD SCARRY AND BEVERLY CLEARY BOOKS I PUT UP TODAY? JIMINY CRICKETS, HOW MANY DAMN RAMONA BOOKS ARE THERE?!
(i love beverly cleary, don’t you?) AND DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY BERENSTAIN BEARS BOOKS EXIST? WELL WHEN I WAS A KID THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT 40 MILLION. THEY’VE WRITTEN A FEW MORE SINCE THEN. AND THE MOM IS STILL WEARING THAT BLUE HAT AND DUMPY DRESS. C’MON FOLKS, CAN’T WE GET THE MAMA A NEW DRESS?

*but what is cool as hell is i’ve got a key to the library! i must be livin’ right!

two series of books that i had never heard of until yesterday was the Franklin the Turtle and the Junie B. Jones series. i’m so bad though, that when i’m putting those books away i make up new titles. new, horrible titles.
Franklin Goes to War
Franklin and the Angry Hooker
Franklin Has Gas

the Junie B. books are even worse because they have longer titles. so they’re even more fun.
Junie B. Jones Finds a Corpse at the Dump!
Junie B. Jones is Getting on My Last Damn Nerve
Junie B. Jones First Grader: Dealin’ That China White

anyblah, the kid’s books intimidate me…for now. i’m sure they’ll be old hat by tomorrow. oh and hey, did you know that the library has music CDs you can check out?! i mean, they’ve got some okay stuff back there. lenny kravitz. there was another one a girl brought back today….what was it…something like alicia keys or something. it’s not all classical music is what i’m saying. oh and DVDs. you can check out DVDs. like movies and shit. so not only can we tell you where the post office is, we can let you have Disney’s Cars for a week.
FREE, bitches.

ain’t the library cool?

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