Ugh, not fun. Is there hand sanitizer at the work stations or anything?
This is unrelated, but do you yourself still check out patrons' books manually? Our library system has a no-longer-particularly-new self-checkout system in place, but in the last year they've made it so you can *only* check books out that way. A librarian friend told me it's literally because they want it to appear in the numbers that enough people are using it so it was worth spending all the money they did on the machines. Which, I, just... *headdesk* My roommate teaches autistic kids and she can't take them on socialization outings to the library anymore because they simply cannot use the systems, and the librarians won't/can't make an exception even for special needs kids.
Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the first season (but at least it was short). I'm just about caught up to s6 -- I watched a chunk of s5 w/my roommate before starting over at the beginning and I'm in early 5 again, so there's just a few episodes here or there in 5 I haven't seen yet, plus all of s6, which Netflix doesn't have yet. I'm going to be very depressed when I'm done. Which event was the turning point for you?
Awww, your poor sweet parents. Trying so hard!!!
All literature programs, mostly MAs, some PhDs. Decided I don't want to do them because a) I realized I don't actually want to be a lit prof, at least not enough to go through all the shit it takes to maaaaybe get there if I'm lucky, b) during the app process I remembered how much I hate writing papers, and how not-self-motivated I've become c) I'm not sure if it'll help me get a better publishing job or not (I need to do some research) d) I don't want to end up unemployed at the end of it without better job prospects than I have now. ...Super sucks.
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Date: 2014-01-31 04:29 pm (UTC)This is unrelated, but do you yourself still check out patrons' books manually? Our library system has a no-longer-particularly-new self-checkout system in place, but in the last year they've made it so you can *only* check books out that way. A librarian friend told me it's literally because they want it to appear in the numbers that enough people are using it so it was worth spending all the money they did on the machines. Which, I, just... *headdesk* My roommate teaches autistic kids and she can't take them on socialization outings to the library anymore because they simply cannot use the systems, and the librarians won't/can't make an exception even for special needs kids.
Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the first season (but at least it was short). I'm just about caught up to s6 -- I watched a chunk of s5 w/my roommate before starting over at the beginning and I'm in early 5 again, so there's just a few episodes here or there in 5 I haven't seen yet, plus all of s6, which Netflix doesn't have yet. I'm going to be very depressed when I'm done. Which event was the turning point for you?
Awww, your poor sweet parents. Trying so hard!!!
All literature programs, mostly MAs, some PhDs. Decided I don't want to do them because a) I realized I don't actually want to be a lit prof, at least not enough to go through all the shit it takes to maaaaybe get there if I'm lucky, b) during the app process I remembered how much I hate writing papers, and how not-self-motivated I've become c) I'm not sure if it'll help me get a better publishing job or not (I need to do some research) d) I don't want to end up unemployed at the end of it without better job prospects than I have now. ...Super sucks.
Oscaaaaaaars. :D
I need to upload some non-bsg icons.BAM.