1. Tina Fey's biography was riotous. The most memorable part (besides the word blorft which had me cracking up*), was the rule that you always go along with whatever your comedic partner says. Which is just like life. Sometimes you have to just go with whatever happens.
2. Sometimes I desperately need a little time to recuperate. People are great, but also, blech. I get to make small talk all day, it's not exactly high on my list of weekend activities. So get over it roomies, I don't want to make small talk with your new boyfriend. I want to lie on my amazingly comfortable bed and watch Netflix.
3. There is no light switch that I can find in the employee bathroom in my current library and this seems like a serious issue. It's normally automatic, but when I walked in the other day, it didn't turn on. So, I tried to find the switch and there was nothing in the bathroom...so, I turned to go check on the outside wall and managed to run into the DOOR. Yes, it made a huge thud that probably most the library heard. No, no one asked if I was alright. I started laughing, because it was so ridiculous and everyone else politely pretended nothing had happened, because I'm new and that's what you do when someone is new.
4. I went for a run and then decided I was too tired to run, but I wanted to be outside...so I just walked around the park. An older woman joined me and started talking to me. Depending on my mood, this either creates a "WHY?!!!!!" attitude or a "Tell me your life story complete with all the little details and bare your soul to me because I'm genuinely interested and looking for answers to my own life by learning about other peoples lives." Anyways, it ended up being a great conversation. No, she didn't give me the answer to life's questions, but she did tell me "You can't control everything, so just let go and take it all with a sense of humor. Laugh, cause you don't get these moments back."
5. Thanksgiving as one of my top holidays. It combines two of my favorite things: food and family. Sadly, working at a library means that I only get Thanksgiving and Black Friday off, so I had to drive down DAY OF, which sucked majorly. I spent most my drive imagining my arrival being greeted like Prometheus rolling into town - "Hey humans, check out this fire thing I brought for you!" Sadly, my family did not herald my arrival with quite that fervor, but hey, families will be families.
'"Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' - Tina Fey
2. Sometimes I desperately need a little time to recuperate. People are great, but also, blech. I get to make small talk all day, it's not exactly high on my list of weekend activities. So get over it roomies, I don't want to make small talk with your new boyfriend. I want to lie on my amazingly comfortable bed and watch Netflix.
3. There is no light switch that I can find in the employee bathroom in my current library and this seems like a serious issue. It's normally automatic, but when I walked in the other day, it didn't turn on. So, I tried to find the switch and there was nothing in the bathroom...so, I turned to go check on the outside wall and managed to run into the DOOR. Yes, it made a huge thud that probably most the library heard. No, no one asked if I was alright. I started laughing, because it was so ridiculous and everyone else politely pretended nothing had happened, because I'm new and that's what you do when someone is new.
4. I went for a run and then decided I was too tired to run, but I wanted to be outside...so I just walked around the park. An older woman joined me and started talking to me. Depending on my mood, this either creates a "WHY?!!!!!" attitude or a "Tell me your life story complete with all the little details and bare your soul to me because I'm genuinely interested and looking for answers to my own life by learning about other peoples lives." Anyways, it ended up being a great conversation. No, she didn't give me the answer to life's questions, but she did tell me "You can't control everything, so just let go and take it all with a sense of humor. Laugh, cause you don't get these moments back."
5. Thanksgiving as one of my top holidays. It combines two of my favorite things: food and family. Sadly, working at a library means that I only get Thanksgiving and Black Friday off, so I had to drive down DAY OF, which sucked majorly. I spent most my drive imagining my arrival being greeted like Prometheus rolling into town - "Hey humans, check out this fire thing I brought for you!" Sadly, my family did not herald my arrival with quite that fervor, but hey, families will be families.
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