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"One dark November day in 1923, Dorothy Leigh Sayers sat in her London office, rehearsing a lie until it sounded like the unvarnished truth. She excelled at playing with words, and making things up, whether in advertising copy or detective fiction. Now her imagination faced it's sternest challenge....She had invented a mysterious illness to justify taking eight weeks off work,

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hoping none of the men she reported to would enquire to closely into the medical problems of a valued female member of the staff." - The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards - Katy_S - [ 1 ] -

Apparently this is how she hid her pregnancy. - Katy_S - -

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Katy_S to Library Society of the World, Katy_S's feed, Lines From Books
"The librarians I know are into, like, I dunno, tea and cozy mysteries, not breaking and entering." "Yeah, well. This is a different kind of library." from The Library at Mount Char.

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The first speaker may perhaps not know many librarians? - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 1 ] -

Well, I'll give him a break considering he was just approached in a bar by the librarian to engage in some breaking and entering. ;) - Katy_S - -

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Katy_S to Katy_S's feed, The Reading Room
This Will Ring Your Chimes | File 770 (http://file770.com/?p=234... ) - The Dr. Seuss/LotR mashup cracks me up.

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Also, this one: "Ring and Ringwraith IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single hobbit in possession of the One Ring must be in want of a volcano." - Katy_S - [ 1 ] -

Surely more folks were amused by this than just Jenn and I. - Katy_S - [ 1 ] -

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I was helping a guy in the adult services department this afternoon. We had scanned a document to a flash drive and then attached the document to an email. He then wanted to look at the document on the drive to check what he had just sent. I don't think he realized the file folder could open up as tile images, since he very quickly minimized the folder as porn images popped into view.

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I kept it together until he left, but then I had to go hide in a little alcove behind the circ desk and spend some time laughing. - Katy_S - [ 7 ] -

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"And that was that. You don't get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did." - Signal To Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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The Laws of Librarianship you might not learn about in library school. #1 Somebody will puke on one of the busiest days of Summer Reading and no one will be able to find the biological substance clean up kits. Also, gloves won't be where they are supposed to be.

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"She's as big as four-fifths of five-eights of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone." -- The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey

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Today was one of those days in which I spent a good chunk of the morning defining words in McDonald's online job application and test for one of their applicants (who was using our computers) because he didn't feel like he could read well enough to use the dictionary I offered him the first time he asked me about a word. I'm really sad that the education system failed this guy.

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is there a literacy network or something in your area? - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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I helped him as much as I ethically could. I was more than willing to define words for him in the statements, but I had to tell him that I couldn't choose the correct answers for him (it was one of those "which of these statements describes you best" career psych tests). At least he knew how to use the computer. It's really sad when the BMV sends people to us to print things the BMV used to print, and the people (who have never used a computer) learn that they have to have an email address before they set up the account at the BMV's website to get the one page printout that they need. I might have some unresolved anger issues involving the BMV. - Katy_S - -

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HELP! I'm off-site at a coffee shop with tablets to help kids doing elearning and an incredibly socially awkward guy cornered me to talk about cement. He keeps coming back.

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OMG! He's dancing to Blondie's Rapture. - Katy_S - -

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With the first guy, I really wished I could put on some earphones like others in the area. Sadly, I was there to interact with people. - Katy_S - -

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Humidity - 72%

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Welcome to my world. - Steven Perez - -

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Caturday https://farm6.staticflick...

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double-barreled stinkeye! - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

I disturbed their cuddle session. - Katy_S - -

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I'm cooking a chicken with rosemary and lemon in the crock pot. http://farm8.staticflickr... Tomorrow, I'll use it to make chicken pasta salad. I do believe that it is warm weather food season.

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I'm more than a little fascinated by this. Amazon.com : Pizzacraft Grilled Pizza Cone Set (6-Piece) - PC0304 : Pizza Grilling Stones : Patio, Lawn & Garden http://ecx.images-amazon.... (http://www.amazon.com/Piz... )

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A nearby public library recently did a big expansion. Apparently, at the grand opening celebration that happened this month, they opened the ceremony with a prayer. Am I the only one thinking OH, HELL NO!

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nope! OH HELL NO. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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No. No no no no no no no no. And I say that as a deeply religious person. No. - laura x - -

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It was bound to happen sometime. My predecessor, who never weeded and who still works with young children, sometimes comes in to get materials and complains that the books she always used in the past aren't around anymore (trust me, they weren't that great). Today, she came in right as I was loading up a couple of carts with picture books to take to tech services to be weeded. OH HAI!

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I had trouble controlling my giggling once she left. - Katy_S - -

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Oh dear. - Katy_S - -

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"You can't trust everything that ass Plato wrote," Sokrates said. - The Just City, by Jo Walton

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Read that line yesterday :) - Eivind - -

This book is making me very happy. I enjoy a good feminist critique of Plato. - Katy_S - -

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There is a librarian mafia. There are many librarians, and they've already started to settle into this site, too.

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we have librarians even in our side. - bezdomnyj82 - -

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for me COD is overrated, I'm more a BF player. ;) - bezdomnyj82 - -

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Katy_S to Katy_S's feed, The Reading Room, Slow Cooker Cookery
See above links for a couple rooms recreated here. Add others in the comments, if you like.

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Happy Caturday! http://41.media.tumblr.co...

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It's the internet and it's Caturday, so I made a Room. http://www.frenf.it/early...

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“Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.” ― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

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this is beautiful - chiaratiz - -

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Sometimes, I think my cats are suicidal. http://farm8.staticflickr...

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or maybe acrobats! - chiaratiz - -

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The little gray one almost fell from there once. In fact, she would have fallen if I hadn't been there to grab her. She still gets up there and prances about. - Katy_S - -

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Yeah, well...http://farm9.staticflickr...

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It took me a while (and google translate) to figure out how to post images. So, that test was finally successful. - Katy_S - -

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You have to link to the url of the actual picture on the website and not the web page's url. - Katy_S - -

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I made a room for Slow Cooker/Crock Pot cooking.

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This is one of mine. :) http://farm8.staticflickr...

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Hi you! - valeacaso - -

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soooooo cute! - cristinabi - -

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Katy_S to Katy_S's feed, The Reading Room
I created a room like The Reading Room group for those interested: http://www.frenf.it/early...

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Thanks, Katy! - Jenny H - -

Anytime! It seemed like an important one. :) - Katy_S - -

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