Librarians and the Full Moon
I did it! I faced one of my phobias last night!
My class met at the library last night to get a tour and to start pulling materials for our research papers due at the end of the cluster. This caused much anxiety for me, because I have a fear of librarians. I have not been to the library since 1998, before last night! You know, it really was not all that bad. In fact, I turned it into a little shopping trip. I spent around $3.00-$4.00 making copies of reference materials on the crappy copier. Then, I had to pay $3.00 for a replacement library card. The final blow to my wallet came when I had to pay $6.45 for an overdue fee from 1998. It sounds petty, I know, but I was not about to argue with a librarian! Now, I have the utmost respect for librarians, but they are a strange breed. It takes a special person to do that job. However, every librarian I have had to encounter seems to have a "Wednesday Adams" vibe. They definitely have a dark side to them, even more so than myself. I think I have to place them in the same category as Shriners and Masons; I am also afraid of Shriners and Masons. It is funny how everyone in the library remembers that one rule we all learned in kindergarten: "When in the library, we whisper." Of course, no one wants to get yelled at by a librarian!
The calendar and the ambiguous "they" say tonight is a full moon. No one has been crabby, though. It is not that I am complaining, but I am puzzled. Everyone was a jackass last week.
My class met at the library last night to get a tour and to start pulling materials for our research papers due at the end of the cluster. This caused much anxiety for me, because I have a fear of librarians. I have not been to the library since 1998, before last night! You know, it really was not all that bad. In fact, I turned it into a little shopping trip. I spent around $3.00-$4.00 making copies of reference materials on the crappy copier. Then, I had to pay $3.00 for a replacement library card. The final blow to my wallet came when I had to pay $6.45 for an overdue fee from 1998. It sounds petty, I know, but I was not about to argue with a librarian! Now, I have the utmost respect for librarians, but they are a strange breed. It takes a special person to do that job. However, every librarian I have had to encounter seems to have a "Wednesday Adams" vibe. They definitely have a dark side to them, even more so than myself. I think I have to place them in the same category as Shriners and Masons; I am also afraid of Shriners and Masons. It is funny how everyone in the library remembers that one rule we all learned in kindergarten: "When in the library, we whisper." Of course, no one wants to get yelled at by a librarian!
The calendar and the ambiguous "they" say tonight is a full moon. No one has been crabby, though. It is not that I am complaining, but I am puzzled. Everyone was a jackass last week.
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