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Last night Dingo sent me a link to this article with a comment about how librarians are a strange bunch.  The article is about a fired library director.  My favorite part is: “Staff members said Schmidli spoke through a puppet at meetings, talked about her sex life, berated and harassed workers, asked employees to spy […]

I was walking past a few of the pain-in-my-butt juniors while they were on the computers, and noticed that they were on UFC websites. I couldn’t resist so I went up to them and asked, “Gentlemen, who is your money on? Rampage or Forrest?”, referring to the fight coming up next month. […]

Before graduation, the seniors and faculty had a breakfast to say their good-byes and get their yearbooks signed.  As people finished eating most of the faculty began leaving but I stayed on, chatting with one of my favorite teachers.  Pretty soon a student came over and asked the teacher to sign his yearbook.  Not long after another […]

The seniors’ graduation is coming up soon and, since I am a faculty member, I get to participate in the ceremony. I get to walk through the auditorium looking all faculty-ish, get on the stage, and clap for the graduates. Most importantly, I get to do this all in a gown and hood. […]

The prom…where do I begin?  With the two students who got busted with a bottle of Grey Goose?  Or maybe the all-out brawl over the girl in the pale blue dress?  Perhaps I should start with a description of my totally awesome dance moves?
Unfortunately none of these things happened.  The prom was very nice and […]

Somebody pinch me - so far, today has been quiet and laid-back.  Even the annoying kids that I was expecting 6th period did not show up.  I’ve only had to shush someone two or three times today - a record.  Right now the loudest sound in the library is the tapping of my keyboard.
Everyone around here […]

I have to admit that I’m disappointed that no one took a crack at Sunday’s trivia post. Was it too tough? Would the words “Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish” make it easier? Do you not like trivia? Do you not like […]

I spent today working at a public library and since it was Mother’s Day there were very few patrons all day. I was at the reference desk in the Children’s Department, mostly signing up the few kids that did come in for a computer and doing some searches for last-minute school projects. At […]

Did I ever mention that besides a huge book collection my library has an enormous video collection? Yes, video as in VHS, as in some of the kids don’t know what it is. There’s got to be about 3000 videos, many of which are great classics, theater performances, art documentaries, etc. But […]

You’d think that after seeing this and this I wouldn’t be surprised at the time-warped oddities I find in my library but I still nearly fell over from shock when I discovered this beauty:

I’m not sure who is creepier - the man with his shiny plastic orange skin or the Bette Midler-esque woman with the […]