So a new Temeraire book came out. In fact, it has been out for more than a month and I am a librarian and I didn't know this. Oh god, fail. (Okay, so maybe the rural redneck appetite for dragons-in-the-Napoleonic-era is not as large as I would have hoped ( Read more... )

One of my Facebook friends is a woman who used to work at the library with me. She's a total sweetheart with this awesome German accent...the only trouble is, she appears to have gotten all of her political opinions from this coworkerToday on her Facebook sweet-ex-coworker posted yet another ZOMG OBAMA IZ A MUSLIMMM!!1!1!!!!111! vid. And finally my ( Read more... )

Look, I used to work in a photo lab. I know that mistakes happen.

But there is no goddamn excuse for the way they chopped up my negatives from last week's fireworks. It wasn't just one mistake. It was a mistake in every single row of the negatives(Yes, I know I'm the last person in the world still using film. More on that later ( Read more... )

It is 2:30 in the morning and my bathroom ceiling is leaking. According to Emergency Maintenance, this is NOT AN EMERGENCY. And the office isn't open on Sundays. So I am supposed to LET THE FUCKING CEILING LEAK UNTIL MONDAYAnd this is not a little drip. It was more like a shower turned on low. It has since slowed to an occasional drip, but I live ( Read more... )

Ugh, yet again, I fail so hard at online classes. I forgot to email my prof my idea for an imaginary project for young-adult programming, even though I've been working on the project itself already. It's due on Monday, so if she says "Nope, someone else is already doing this," I'll have to start over COMPLETELY, and it will be my own. fucking. ( Read more... )

Hi. I'm currently in the middle of my scheduled mid-semester panic attack. I am taking far too many classes, I am already behind in the online courses, and I have no fucking idea what I'm doing with any of it. On top of that, all I really want to do is play Warcraft and watch Pros episodes, even though I know that's escapism and I do not have time ( Read more... )

I am fidgety and bored and antisocial. A friend of mine just poked me on AIM, but if I talk to him he'll want to hang out and I don't wanna. I also don't wanna write fic (because at the moment I am pretty sure that everything sucks*), read (Sense and Sensibility is not as fun as Pride and Prejudice), eat (I am...tired of Oreos? this does not ( Read more... )

Oh hai, this is the library system where I used to work.

Clermont library cuts 24 employees.

Some of these people are bound to be people I have worked with, people I like, people who obviously need these jobs. And cutting the library to eight hours a day? How the fuck are they supposed to remain a functional system like that? It would have to be from ( Read more... )

So...I'm pretty sure the LA Times completely missed the target with their Girls' Guide to Comic Con 2009. Like, missed the target so badly they shot themselves in the foot.

There are a lot of things I could say about the article, but most of those things are built around a four-letter root word beginning with F. So instead I'll just copypasta the ( Read more... )