Assorted, Miscellaneous Etc.

[silveradept]

• First up, time-sensitive object - hooray for finch for finding work! No on capitalism that forces them to pay for child care without actually having the money to do so from the work! Solution: drawing cards from the Antiquarian Tarot or their personal oracle deck, first is free, donate or signal boost for more.
• Second, if any of you know fan-creators that would like to talk about their processes and where they publish their works, and that are local to the Pacific Northwest, I'd appreciate an introduction, as I'm thinking about programming options for my workplace.
• Also,
  
  original image by Flickr user nafmo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
  captioned image by alexseanchai also CC BY-SA
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  because we can all use some extra compliments to remind ourselves about what we can do.
• Elsetime, toddlers are adorable and smarter than we think. I set out foam letters for the to play with before program, spelling my name as an example of what to do with them. The industrious toddlers spelled out O HAI. I don't think any of them are memes, but I don't know that, I suppose.
• The NHL kicks off their season. I foresee much ice hockey in the future. Not so much with the RPF, but yes, hockey is here! As are many other sports. I like sport, generally speaking.
• I may have been singing a short burst of "Robot Army, Robot Army" to the tune of "Winter Wrap-Up" in anticipation of the robotics program I ran this week.
• Speaking of, since I have put my Pinkie Pie button on my work lanyard, it has moved into immediate contention with my Muggles For Harry Potter pin and my Naughty Elf pin for most commented-on pin on the lanyard. Kids notice this stuff, y'know?
• I am finally starting to get my coworkers to accept the weird as reality. The library users, not as much. Example the latest: After one of the tour students found our beanbag ladybug in the stacks, I kept the bug on my head as a hat for the rest of the time and for my opening desk shift. Several different users came up and commented (best points for "Did you know you have a human attached to your belly?") about it, but the comment that truly told me my great plan is working came from a coworker: "I noticed what was on [Silver's] head, but I didn't say anything, because I knew it was [Silver], and that's just normal for them."
  
  *steeplefingers* Exxxxxcellent.
• Television is interesting. I got to watch Weird Al unleash his incredible intellect on a game show, and I've really been enjoying "NPH does whatever he can get away with", nominally called Best Time Ever. (Incidentally, this latest episode meant I got to explain to Significant Other what Blue Man Group actually does.)
• As much as I'm supposed to want to like it, I just can't get into the new Muppets series. There's not enough weird happening on the show within a show, and the outside the show segments are just...sad. I think Ana Mardoll had the best line on it:

  I'm sad of the Muppets being misused and mishandled into a bunch of out-of-character abusive MRA fever dreams.

  Yeah. Since leaving the Henson Company, it's been a tough road for the Muppets in terms of getting a movie or a series that captures at least an attempt at what made the original good.

Comments

[syntaxofthings]

Yay accepting the weird as reality! I am happy about that because I do stuff like that too. "Oh, Stephanie is walking around with elaborate face paint all day today. That's just how [xe] rolls." Love it. I'm so glad to find more people who do these things!

[silveradept]

Makes it so much easier to expand the wardrobe and to start wearing fannish things, and to occasionally come to work wearing a dragon tail, because today is a day to wear a dragon tail.

[syntaxofthings]

Yes. I should start wearing my fairy wings just because. Though I think they're not quite what I want and I want to figure out tattoo dragon wings. Which, ack.

[silveradept]

That's definitely a different expense. But would likely be very cool.

[azurelunatic]

"When did you start doing your hair blue?" "... May."

My team was not entirely surprised when the disco ball went up. I really do need to take pictures again.

[silveradept]

That's awesome. Disco balls are definitely great things for workplace flair.

[amarie24]

OMFG, Silver! Those stories with the kids & toddlers is oh-so adorable!!

You spelled out your name with those foam letters for them? And you wore that bug on your head? OMFG, it's all so cute and sweet! So, so very nice!! I know I -SQUEE!- as a general rule, but I am so -SQUEEEEEEEEING- hard over here! :D :D :D

If you don't mind me asking? Now that I think about it...dealing with children is a big, big part of being a librarian, huh? Do you like it a lot? Did you anticipate it when you were studying for your job? :O :O :O

[silveradept]

I went into library school with the intention of becoming a children's librarian, so yes, I went in knowing what sort of thing was likely to happen. Frankly, I wish many of my colleagues had gone in with the same realization.

[amarie24]

Awww, that's so very nice! :D

And I...can assume that your coworkers aren't as good with kids, perhaps? And/or they try to shove all that work onto you? D:

[silveradept]

Not always as good, no, and often coming from a mindset that children must first behave perfectly, and then they will be accorded respect.

And yes, sometimes things get offloaded on me, as well, since I'm a kids and teens person.

[amarie24]

Awww, both of those sound pretty shitty and inconvenient. :(

But that just makes you the coolest librarian in the whole building! YAY! :D

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I love the 'human attached to your abdomen'. There's an old joke about a man wearing a beret with a parrot on his shoulder walks in to a bar. Bartender says 'Where did you get that?' The parrot says 'In France, they're all over the place.'

[silveradept]

Exactly. For some people, any weird is too weird, but I'm really hoping that they will start to produce their own weird.