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September 06, 2007
Quotable Thursday
“After a while, Mr. Lovingood, a middle manager there, said, ‘Mr. Feynman, we’ve been going for two hours now.’”
-Richard Feynman, “An Outsider’s Inside View of the Challenger Inquiry” in Our Future in Space, ed. By Steven Anzovin (c. 1991)
For two supposedly mild-mannered children’s librarians working in a virtual paradise, Jason and I have a large number of… disagreements. Part of this is because we’re both always right (although it should absolutely be noted that I am always righter), and part of it is because WPL is a busy, busy place and we’re kind of stressed out. Anyway, one of the reasons I so enjoy working with Jason (even when I am, for instance, actively considering throwing a chair at his head) is that occasionally I’ll be at the Reference Desk and he will read me some random thing out of an outdated book he just happened to pull off the shelf that – taken, clearly, completely out of context – really, really makes me laugh. The above is an example from yesterday that made me go, “What? No! Youaremakingthatupletmesee!”
Another thing about Jason is that when your car completely dies on your way to work (the second time, in theory, that your car has died THIS WEEK), he will drive over and pick you up and not complain about it or anything, even if he happened to be with you the first time it died and wound up not being able to see The Ten (which you probably wanted to see more than he did anyway, but still). Overall, a good deal.
Posted by adrienne at September 6, 2007 02:32 PM
Comments
I used to think that working in a flower shop would be the ultimate, but as I've gotten older, I would LOVE to work in a library! You're so lucky!
Posted by: amy at September 6, 2007 10:50 PM
I think that when your car died the first night, I had wanted to see The Ten more than Halloween. But by the time all was said and done, I was mostly glad we still were able to see a second movie... :)
Posted by: jp at September 6, 2007 10:53 PM
Amy, I've worked a bunch of different jobs, but working in a library really is awesome.
Jason, It did all work out pretty well in the end.
Posted by: adrienne at September 8, 2007 07:58 PM