What I use my education for

Shelf-tidying is perhaps the most obnoxious thing we library mooks have to do. It consists in going through a bunch of shelves and putting all the books in the right order. This isn't so bad when it's actual *books*, where the call number is clearly written on the spine and you can just read along. It's excruciating when it's tiny little pamphlets or journals, where you actually have to pull them out one by one to see what they are; and when there can be something like a hundred on any one shelf. *shudder*

Anyway, many of our periodicals aren't in English - eg. Japanese economics journals. And I was very gratified today to find that I can still remember what the Japanese numbers look like, because that's all I could understand on one particular series of journals. So I was able to at least put them in numerical order. See, my linguistic obsessions stand me in good stead.

Memo to self: finish the fuckin' thesis or you'll have to work in a goddessforsaken library for the rest of your life!!!

Broom Closet Action II: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretions

I fear jessikast with a deep and abiding terror. She came up with the plotline of this piece of insanity right off the top of her head, giggling all the time. It has only been slightly altered and expanded in the process of transcription by the occasional idea from me. Tremble and obey.

( Not suitable for children. Or anyone, really. )

You don't even want to know waht she was planning to do with the socks