dreams.

[scottobear]

I dreamt last night that I was working at the library again (or not working, as the case was... goofing off with the old pages) and I saw a lot of the old team there. I wonder what Jane, Charlotte and Pam are all up to these days.

Those were some amazingly fun times. the only downside of that job was the politics involved... There were quite a few little hens there, too. Aside from that, I had a great time. Get paid to reshelve books, and show people where certain things were. Even cataloging wasn't bad a little bit at a time. I love to see the old books people would donate. You'd invariably find something in a box to make you cringe or laugh. (like a slice of pizza for a bookmark, or old WWII porn...Tijuana bibles.)

Every other Thursday, they'd bring folks from the local mental care ward in to visit... Mr Hanna was a favorite. A stereotypical paranoid, he would laugh at inappropriate times, and spout some of the most weird commentary about stuff I'd ever seen. Very entertaining to a 17 year old boy.

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[artemii.livejournal.com]

i loved working in a library too!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

what did you do?

[artemii.livejournal.com]

i was all-purpose girl. i answered phones, did clerical work, reshelved, checked decimal point placement (in that shelf-checking thing i forget the name of that was so tedious), helped people who came in, sorted through donations, labelled and shelved new periodicals, checked the periodical shelves daily to see how badly they'd been messed up, did a bunch more stuff i forget, and did lots of directing of people to the video room (ha - not in my job description of course - but i did a lot of work in the basement and people always got lost on the way to the video room).

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

sounds like a good gig. :)

[artemii.livejournal.com]

it was great, except for the fact that one of my bosses was evil. :) one day she even just didn't show up for work!

but partway through the departments got broken up differently and i only had to work for my cool boss after that, so even that worked out fine. :)