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  • As most of you know, I'd prefer to be a teen librarian instead of what I am now, a "youth services" librarian, meaning I work with kids of all ages. It's this whole angsty, complicated, weird thing, I swear. ANYWAY. T…

  • One of my former teenage employees sent me this message on facebook today in response to my "25 things" meme: I'm pretty sure you do the most good of anyone I've met. And I go to a school with a lot of people who want t…

  • Today, a Chinese-American kid was pleading with his mother to let him check out Pirates of the Caribbean. She refused. He bust out the classic, "BUT MOM, EVERYONE WATCHES THEM!" She still said no, shaking her head.I, …

  • miscellany (mostly of the library variety) 1. One of my former patrons, now at college, had this as her facebook status today: "________ misses [name of my library] and the librarians that made it cool." Awww, it made …

  • Two Reasons To Keep Going: 1. Aw, my TAG! 2. Excitement!!!!!!! There's better days shinin' through, as a friend of mine sometimes says. And you know, he's a wise friend of mine.

  • Of course, more to follow ... Things What I Have Learned: * Disneyland is not the happiest place on Earth. Nay, it is the opposite of the happiest place on Earth, it is where happiness goes to die. They want to harve…

  • the girls in their summer clothes in the cool of the evening light First, xanga finally added the cut-tag. (not that I am ever going to cut my rants, y'all, just tons of pictures, probably.) which is splendid news. I …

  • So, "summer programming" has officially begun at my library, although we've been doing the reading logs since the beginning of the month and had a week of "special programs" last week. I know that mostly reads like gibb…

  • "We are the ship, all else the sea." -Rube Foster, founder of the Negro Leagues(This is actually a really good motto to have, on days when you feel the ocean bearing down.)There's two little boys here, talking in above a…

  • So, this was going to be about fifteen other posts, but, you know, today was one of the loooooongest days of my entire ever. And it caps off a week of the same, so I am just a little too tired to focus my eyes at this p…

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