MY GOD THERE IS NO END TO THEM

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Have managed to finagle out a couple of long extra shifts this week. I am beginning to suspect that there is such a thing as too much time shelving books. (I told my coworker about Kobo Abe's concept of shoveling sand, and she reacted with marked enthusiasm. "THAT IS EXACTLY MY LIFE.")

Anyway, so while I'm furiously digging my way out from yet another picture book explosion,* y'all are welcome to check out torn_world's Fifth Muse Fusion. Me, I'm going to go get my machete for these books. And if that doesn't work, I'm gonna start using it on patrons.


*And incidentally feeding my raging fancrush on Tomie dePaola OH MY GOD EVERY BOOK MAKES ME LOVE HIM MORE. We library nerds are weird. Accept this.

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[willowistari.livejournal.com]

That icon. It is mesmerizing. *stares*

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

Gratuitous machete iconry. Carry on.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Machete. He knows the score. He gets the women. And he kills the bad guy!

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

And then he makes himself a nice cup of tea.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Forgot mah link

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

*stares*

That could be the most awesomely bad film of all time. Or not.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

*wists* I wish I could shelve books. I don't think the local library wants my volunteer time, for one reason or another, so I won't be able to... But I like book shelving! It's soothing!

I suppose there could be too much of a good thing, though.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I like book shelving! It's soothing!

One of the actual honest-to-Prime interview questions for this job was "How well do you think you will cope with the endless, mind-numbing repetition of this job?"

I am pretty sure I got the job because of my answer. "I am the sort of person who puts jigsaw puzzles together, then takes them apart so I can put them back together again. I am ALL ABOUT endless, mind-numbing repetition."

It gets to the point where the brain refuses to do any more, though, no matter how much the spirit is willing.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that. I used to enjoy data entry and page-scanning at my college job because I could think of other stuff while I did it, but after a few hours in a row it'd start to get to me.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Kobo Abe! \o/

I still haven't read The Woman in the Dunes, but The Face of Another is brilliant even if almost nothing happens. And Kangaroo Notebook is just batshit insane.

[nobleplatypus]

Back when I worked for the public library, I remember well our grim acceptance of the fact that the pile of to-be-shelved paperback romance novels would never, ever go away. I don't think we actually had the space for all of them out in the stacks, to be honest; we just adapted to our inability to get them all shelved properly. :P

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

At the school library, where kids browse without parents, I just try to keep the picture books in the right letter, bonus points if an author's books are together. Beyond that, I've accepted there will never be order.

At least not without prohibiting K-2 students from taking out their own books, which I am against.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the picture books are aimed more or less at the right letters, and the kids' nonfic is aimed kind of toward a similar subject. (The books on dinosaurs, as far as I can tell, belong strewn across the floor.)

K-2? Man, if only people around here learned by third grade how not to dump books and DVDs all over everything!

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