Working full-time for almost a month has worn me out, folks. I mean, do people really do this? Sit at a desk for 40 hours a week? I mean, I just finished grad school so I'm used to
working full-time, but I'm not used to
working working full-time. Ugh.
It's time to go away, and having never been to Hawaii, I figure that's about as good a place as any. So Jeff and I are off to Kauai on Saturday. It's his birthday and our anniversary, so we've got some
celebratin' to do.
Woot!
What I really want to talk about, though, is how a patron just shushed me in the library. Me,
the librarian. I was talking to this kid about
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (the kid thought there were chapters missing from the book and I explained that the chapters were numbered using only primes) and we're laughing and a woman in mom-jeans comes up to me all sour-faced and is like "[
Ahem] Can you quiet down?"
Apparently, this lady missed the Library 2.0 Revolution. Nowadays, the public library is not just about quiet studying, it's about community-building and social interaction. Okay?
I totally lowered my voice, though. I felt a little
embarrassed, and an old worry that used to haunt me in graduate school returned: Am I too loud to be a librarian?
