Thursday Thoughts

It's my last Thursday before summer, and so today you get one BIG Thursday Thought. Hopefully I don't come off as kind of a prickly b, but there's something I have to get off my chest.

I've been a school librarian for something like a dozen years now, and every year about this time people start asking me, "So, are you packing up all those books yet?"

Sigh. It's one of those innocent questions asked by people who don't really understand the logistics of the situation, but after twelve years of getting the same question about 10 times in the same month it gets very hard not to say something like -

"Yes, it's very hard work to pack up 11,000 books, ship them to our offshore Cayman Island storage facilities, wait three months, then ship them back into the country, unpack them, and put them all back onto the shelves according to Dewey. Really it's a miracle we manage it every year. It's funny though, you'd think with an entire room full of bookshelves we'd just keep them there over the summer, right? Where better to store books than bookshelves. Geez, wish I woulda thought of that before now."

Thursday Thoughts

Thoughts lately…

1) Facebook really enjoys being the last word in social networking. When you accept a friend request from Bob it says,  "You are now friends with Bob." Yeah, 'cause before you were totally faking it.

2) I think nerd is just another word for someone who's discovered that 90% of society is bullshit and removes themselves from it.

3) When someone says, "Race ya!" and you immediately say, "You win," without breaking stride, it totally takes the wind out of their sails.

Thursday Thoughts

Thoughts lately…

1) I remember when it wasn't legal for prescription drugs to be advertised on TV. It's pretty much all you see now, and I'm very tired of watching graying people enjoying their lives via picnics and boating while a friendly and responsible narrator explains what drug has made them so happy. For the sake of entertainment, I'd like to see the side-effects acted out during those twilight hour picnics: sudden rashes, nausea, bloating, sexual dysfunction, stroke, heart attack, and possible death. Now that's an advertisement.

2) The Clue Crew on Jeopardy has the best job in the world. Paid flight to awesome and interesting international locations in order to shoot a five to ten second clip while standing near a historic beach or antiquated chess set. Me want do that.

3) Even my wacky brain can't come up with a good way to film a reality TV show about writers. There's only so much entertainment to be had out of watching people stare at their laptops and refresh their browsers. Maybe if we cut off fingers for every form rejection...