So, I joined a pride and prejudice group on facebook because I love pride and prejudice and someone shared a link to a pride and prejudice cmovie. If this sucker doesnt pull me out if my slump—stick a fork in me friends. Im dead.
https://youtu.be/Xi5Ahz9WdqI

Being a grown up is hard and stupid and I would like a refund. Thats all and goodnight.

Librarian Beanies! Do any of you work for a public school system? An opportunity has come up but I dont have enough info to make a decision.

Beverley Cleary passed away yesterday. She was 104. She was one of my first favorite authors. In the announcement for her passing they said, \”no cause of death was given\”. Like…dude. She was 104. I think THAT was the cause of death!

Whelp. Im good and slumped.
I watched the first two of Vincenzo. Even commented with !! And when it was time to click play my fingers wouldnt do it.
I watched the first ep of Hello. Nodded. Said it was cute. Immediatwly developed a crush on FL as she is GORGEOUS and doesnt look like every single othet actress in the land. And when it was time to click play my fingers wouldnt do it.
I watched Oh My Master and found the most interesting/entertaining part to be the preview for tomorrows ep. Because this first ep was boring af.
All of this to say: the slump is real.

Iswak homies! I had tp go and swoop up my dad. His door has fallen off! Let me know what was watched and Ill catch up this week. The Spies drama, right?

Just another day in libraryland.
One of the things that people don\’t get about libraries is that they are for EVERYONE. Teens who dont want to be at home but dont really have anywhere else to go. Guys who are working from home and realize they have to print a 200 page document and their printer isnt going to cut it. SAHM moms looking for a place to socialize themselves and their babies. And the neighborhood drunk.
Not one of these people have a higher or stronger right to be in the library than another. They are all The Public and they ALL have a right to be in the library and use our facilities.
Yesterday our local drunk whipped out his pecker while one of our staff was helping him. She wasnt sure if he was masturbating or if he had a case of the shakes but his shaking hand was on his penis. She told him to leave for the day. I spent the next two hours talking to security ad the local cops and our staff member who dealt with him writing up reports to grt him banned. Because everyone has a right to the library but once you whip out your junk your right is hereby revoked. Take ya tiny tiddliwink and hit the door, punk! After talking to possibly EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD it was decided he would have a 3 year suspension. This morning I get an email that its been dialled back to 6 months.
On the one hand: totally cool. He has NOWHERE ELSE TO GO. And hes typically fine in our space even if he gets aggressive once every blue corn moon.
On the other hand over the course of mu report writing hours I had to listen to phrase \”pleasure himself\” and repeat said phrase to my manager and security and cops SO MANY TIMES. And he should be banned for longer for putting me through that! I didnt deserve it!
But the thing that pissed me and my two coworkers off the absolute most? The cop sauntered into our library and then told us that SHE had decided to give our drunkard a life long ban. That. Is. NOT. How libraries WORK miss missy! YOU do NOT get to make that call. The library is a PUBLIC space that is for EVERYONE. Including a cranky neighborhood drunk who whipped his peter out. Yeah he has to leave for a time. But he WILL be allowed to come back. Because we\’re the library.

Im sorry I did not know that I needed this ubtil I saw it. I LOVE THIS. My ult and baby bias together? Killing it. The song the visuals all of it. ALL OF IT.

Inquiring minds wanna know: whos this handsome fella? What drama is this? I wanna poke his dimple.

The summer before 2nd grade my parents almost divorced. But they didnt (hooray?) My mom agreed to breakup with the man she was cheating on my dad with and give up her heavy drug use-otherwise she was going to loose us kids and my dad. She didn\’t want to loose everything, so she agreed.

That year she focused on remembering how to crochet. Her aunt had taught her when she was a child but had replaced that habit with different ones. Since that sweet woman died that year she thought to re-teach herself with library books and distract herself with her old habit of reading novels (when her hands werent trembling-withdrawls, I think).

That year my dad had a terrible accident at work and spent the majority of the year in the hospital. She spent the year going back and forth from his hospital room, his sisters house (our only relative in the new state) to see after us kids, and work. She kept her crochet bag with her. Our last activity before the accident was a trip to Target. I got to help her choose yarn for the afghans she eas going to make. Red and Black for my dads favorite sports team. Shades of blue for my brother who at 12 wanted to be a pilot or a sea captain and pink and burgundy for me. Over the course of that year my mom made two insanely large afghans. The woman didnt know what she was doing and wasnt sure how to make an afghan or how to end an afghan and they were both the size of basically am entire room. Huge. They were huge.

When she made it to my afghan my dad was finally out of the hospital and we were all at home. She tried to teach me but I was much more interested in my novels. I learned how to make a chain–declared it a choker for my favorite doll and spent my time pressed against her chair looking up to watch every now and again how my afghan was coming along.

Soon after finishing my afghan she was diagnosed with MS and her body just–stopped. Within 6 months she was blind, she didnt have use of her arms, and was in a wheelchair. Within a year she was bedridden. My afghan was the last thing she made. Earlier this year I looked in every nook and crany for my afghan. But it was just gone. I had slept with this blanket since the 2nd grade (ignoring a 2 year stint when I was in charge of taking care of myself and I threw up on it and hid it in the closet as I didnt know how to wash a an afghan). I dragged it to college and back. Its so huge it has its own suitcase and it\’s gone on all of my adventures.

I thought my old housekeeper stole it. Its suitcase was gone. I searched, as I said, through all the nooks and crannies, no luck. On thursday I took my pop to get the vaccine and he bought me 4 bookcases. I put them together on Friday and this morning I started putting books in. I found my afghan. Her suitcase is gone. But the afgan is here. Old and damaged like me, but here.

I am happy.

Yall I so had the most insane dream last night!
First of all. I took a melatonin supplement and for the first time in like a year I slept for 4 hours solid–no waking up for anything. It was AMAZING to wake up feeling refreshed? People who do that regularly? Yall are some lucky so and sos!
But the dream. It was set in late 1983. My mom was going to work someplace requiring she wear booty shorts and high heeled boots. My aunt was wearing the same even though she doesnt work for the same company. My aunt was following my mom to someplace and she had my big brother, my older cousin whos the same age and my older cousin ehos a few months older than me and me rolling around in the back seat.
Suddenly, we hear a THWACK and my mom comes hauling around a building thats exploding behind her. She dives into the front seat like an action hero and yells at my aunt to peel out. My aunt flicks the ash off a blunt and slowly drives off and then the car explodes and theres babies flying everywhere and my mom and aunt arw just…dead. Guts splattered everywhere. And then I woke up.

Can I just say here and now and for the record: I really love 💄 sunbae. I love that the characters feel like real people who do things and react in ways that real people do.

I love our 3 siblings.

I loved how heartbroken Jae Woo was when Lee Jae Shin said that no, he never considered them friends.

I love that people talk to each other.

Our married couple and chef. My heart is breaking for the husband. He keeps saying that hes not gay-he made a mistake in college. But, like the quote says \”the lady doth protest too much\”. The wife (whos name wont stay in ny head) tearfully asking if he loves her and his too-long pause and broken I do. The decision to fight for their marriage or let it go.

And our couple. Our couple who have barely started dating and suddenly theres a 5 year separation in front of them. Him gathering all of his courage and asking her to stay. He doesnt want to lose her and doesnt have the courage to see her leave for 5 years. And her admitting (at least to herself) that she would regret going further in her job more than she would regret losing him if she lost him. I think its about more than her job though–its also about putting more physical space between her and her mom. We know how important her work is to her and how itchy she is to go further but would she be that way if her mother hadnt popped up uninvited again? She wont be able to do that if SongAh is in Europe.

And finally. Hyo-Joo. I sincerely hope she pulls herself together and gets some therapy. Lee Jae Shin is NOT worth this and its disconcerting and sad that she ao fully thinks he is.

I love the in death book series. I think the last dozen or so have been kind of phoned in and theyve probably hit their \”end\” date a dozen times over but I like them all the same.
Im listening to the latest now and thinking about Rob Thomas and Veronica Mars. Rob Thomas said that thw reason he killed off Logan is that no one wants to watch a character in a long term relationship solve crimes. Eve Dallas is a homicide detective. She met her husband in book 1. They moved in together in book 3. They got married maybe 2 or 3 books later. The book series is over 50 titles long (not counting novellas) and remains entertaining. Theres only been one book where their marriage was \”in trouble\” and the book is always focused on the murder. He talked about shoe horning Logan in on cases that he has nothing to do with. In in Death Eves husband is a former thief (and murderer (special circumstances), how do you like that for a bad boy) but current interplanetary business man. He finds himself helping out during investigations often. But he has his own life and career. When he doesnt have time to work with Eve he doesnt. Theres a whole stable of characters that we havent seen in several books.
Rob Thomas just sucks is all and lacks creativity if he couldnt find a way to make it work. Or he just didnt want to make it work. Its well known in the fandom that he and Kristen didnt like Logan and was shocked when the character took off. They kept trying to push him out but it never worked.
And finally. Whats that test? The one wherw you take a scene of women and observe what they talk about: most tv shows put a group of women together and all they talk about is guys and that they couldnt pass that test. This latest in Death has a great scene with
Eve–Lt Dallas homicide cop
Nadine Furst–journalist/author/researcher and head of a research team
Reo–prosecuting attorney
3 kick a women sitting at a table eating burgers and fries and talking about taking down a cultist/human trafficker. It was an awesome scene. Tv shows act like its impossible to show women being competent and awesome. I widh they could all read that scene.
I dont like a ton of Nora Roberts books but shes neat. Way to go Nora. Thanks for that great scene. Also Rob Thomas is a butt.

I am so frustrated with facebook. Almost two months ago I was contacted saying someone in a different state had accessed my account and to change my password. So I did. Except someone (NOT ME) added a two step verification to my account. I dont have access to the phone number this code is attached to. So. I cant login. I cant change my password. I cant do ANYTHING with my account without access to this phone number. Every login solution involves first: LOGGING IN (tf?). Every form of contact goes unanswered. Its so frustrating! They said to upload my drivers license and Id hear from them within 30 days. Ive done that! Ive done that twice! So annoying! So frustrated!

Tales from libraryland:
A sweet five year old needs help with his homework assignment. He has a black man in history and he needs to put 5 things about that black man in a brown paper bag to explain who he is to his class.
His person?

NAT TURNER
for those unfamiliar with Nat Turner: he led the largest slave rebellion in US history and lead 70 men to kill 60 white people. Turner and 17 other slaves were drawn, quartered and reduced to fat.
Again. 5 year old.