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Yet More Things I Have Learned
Dec. 3rd, 2007 11:26 amThings I Have Learned about Washington Life and Library Jobs, Part Four of a potentially infinite series.
1) There’s no such age as too early to start wearing heels. Or makeup. Or to carry tiny purses around.
2) Nor, apparently, is there too young of an age for cheerleaders to have a complete uniform and jacket.
3) Archie Comics deserves a Chick Tract.
4) I have been hired for more than my ridiculously good looks (If you’ve seen Zoolander, then you can imagine the appropriate voice for that phrase). It may turn out that it was my height and my ridiculously good looks, but I can confidently say I’m multi-talented.
5) Fellow librarians are a dentist’s worst enemy - they bring in such yummy sweets.
6) Things so simple as keeping one’s computer software up to date (or, in the case of running Microsoft operating systems, one OS behind) are actually complex and expensive maneuvers. I will not complain too loudly about the replacement cycle, but I do reserve the right to complain that the cycle is taking too long and that by the time replacement software arrives, we will be nearly obsolete again.
7) Even if it doesn’t look like it, I’m making some sort of impact on my storytime attendees. So much so that at least one wondered where I went when I wasn’t able to do my regular storytime one week (d’awwwww...).
8) What is a complex problem for one person is a simple one for another. Apply the right expertise to the problem and it vanishes.
9) Things you see at play can be applied to work. Things you see at work can be applied to play. Social-networking and interactivity are important both for trying to reach out to new customers and to showing new customers that you’re not afraid of their ways of communication.
10) A side effect of learning how to cook is that your coworkers will compliment the presentation of your food. (A corrolary to #2 of volume two of this enterprise)
11) The walls at my apartment resist sticky squares, even in great quantities. This makes me unhappy.
12) While the weather outside is variable-to-rainy, the weather inside the library has but one setting: Cold. I will adjust my wardrobe accordingly and purchase many fine long-sleeved shirts.
13) Having learned how to drive in snow and rain in Michigan is helpful. I now must perfect how to drive in snow and rain going uphill on steep inclines, without spinning tires or falling too far back.
1) There’s no such age as too early to start wearing heels. Or makeup. Or to carry tiny purses around.
2) Nor, apparently, is there too young of an age for cheerleaders to have a complete uniform and jacket.
3) Archie Comics deserves a Chick Tract.
4) I have been hired for more than my ridiculously good looks (If you’ve seen Zoolander, then you can imagine the appropriate voice for that phrase). It may turn out that it was my height and my ridiculously good looks, but I can confidently say I’m multi-talented.
5) Fellow librarians are a dentist’s worst enemy - they bring in such yummy sweets.
6) Things so simple as keeping one’s computer software up to date (or, in the case of running Microsoft operating systems, one OS behind) are actually complex and expensive maneuvers. I will not complain too loudly about the replacement cycle, but I do reserve the right to complain that the cycle is taking too long and that by the time replacement software arrives, we will be nearly obsolete again.
7) Even if it doesn’t look like it, I’m making some sort of impact on my storytime attendees. So much so that at least one wondered where I went when I wasn’t able to do my regular storytime one week (d’awwwww...).
8) What is a complex problem for one person is a simple one for another. Apply the right expertise to the problem and it vanishes.
9) Things you see at play can be applied to work. Things you see at work can be applied to play. Social-networking and interactivity are important both for trying to reach out to new customers and to showing new customers that you’re not afraid of their ways of communication.
10) A side effect of learning how to cook is that your coworkers will compliment the presentation of your food. (A corrolary to #2 of volume two of this enterprise)
11) The walls at my apartment resist sticky squares, even in great quantities. This makes me unhappy.
12) While the weather outside is variable-to-rainy, the weather inside the library has but one setting: Cold. I will adjust my wardrobe accordingly and purchase many fine long-sleeved shirts.
13) Having learned how to drive in snow and rain in Michigan is helpful. I now must perfect how to drive in snow and rain going uphill on steep inclines, without spinning tires or falling too far back.
