Urgh, I’ve been out of commission since Wednesday. I don’t know what happened but I became instantly and violently ill that afternoon and since then, I’ve been perpetually dizzy and motion sick, if I even move my head, nausea sets in. Initially, I blamed it on too much low grade, free wine from the evening before (I don’t think I’ve ever been to an office holiday party. My closest approximation is the moderately sad, though train wreck amusing annual Special Library Association gala, which they throw in November because it’s cheaper the further you get from Christmas. Inevitably someone over 70, or who looks to be over 70, will start boogying hard to oldies like “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” (which I guess was an upgrade from last year's big band numbers) and the entire room is trashed after two glasses of Chardonnay. Me, I somehow manage to find the only straight, reasonably attractive, good humored, foreign-accented, male librarian who happens to live in my neighborhood and close the bar down with him [it shuttered at 10pm so that wasn’t difficult] i.e. mildly hit on him. Like I said, these professional events are disasters waiting to happen. When you start flirting with fellow librarians, you know you’ve had three too many).

Do you know what is sad? That I don’t seem capable of reading an entire work of contemporary nonfiction. (Lengthy books used to be a badge of honor. Who didn’t feel like hot shit for […]

Last night I was filling in for someone on the night shift where you leave around 11:30pm or so. I didn’t really mind it because I didn’t have to work today. But the library is […]

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Hey, if anybody wants to be a librarian in a PR firm, here’s your chance. I just stumbled upon my job ad. It's weird seeing your daily activities spelled out like that. I hate to […]

I hate summer. I’ll never understand how everyone gets all sad as September approaches (just watch TV newscasters over Labor Day weekend blubbering about summer being over like Al Qaeda just kidnapped their newborn). I […]