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  • I would very much like to post a work-related rant but I think at this point I would probably say something I would regret later. So, let me sum up: People! Oy. On the other hand, the meetings I've been in for the past…

  • wait, what?

    It took us a couple of days to get around to the conference with Preacher Man after all, but this morning I managed to snag my boss at a time when Preacher Man was in the library, and we told him his writing on library m…

  • endless entertainment

    Time to go back to work tomorrow and deal with Preacher Man, yay. I wasn't about to confront him without my own boss handy, and she didn't have a minute to spare at the end of last week on account of the big summer read…

  • brief rant

    So there's this guy. I'm pretty sure he's homeless; he's in the library all day every day. Before we found out his name, all the staff referred to him as Preacher Man, because he likes to set up court with a couple of pa…

  • And today we had the police in the library because we had an elderly woman who didn't know where she was, and could not convey to us where she wanted to be. We eventually guessed she had meant to go to one of the nearby…

  • rough week

    We had the police at the library three days in a row, once called by us (to remove someone obnoxious) and twice by patrons (one woman, at closing time, couldn't find the 13- and 14-year-old girls she'd come with, and a h…

  • good cheer

    I had a lovely Thanksgiving, thanks for asking. My friend the Brit, whose husband and older son work in Nigeria, had me and the Frenchwoman, who is also single, over for her annual Thanksgiving for Waifs and Strays; for…

  • performance art

    Today I was formally interviewed for the job I've been doing on an interim basis for the last eight months. It was not the best interview I ever gave, but not the worst by any means, and both interviewers were sympathet…

  • what are you reading?

    In honor of Banned Books Week, September 27-October 4, here's the ALA's list of most frequently banned or challenged books and book series since 2000, out of the 3,869 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Fr…

  • improvement

    The second half of the week has been better than the first half. Wednesday, as predicted, was no fun, but we all lived through it, including all the patrons. I did have to throw some guy out three times in one day; gra…

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