Quick post today - I'm on a library computer, and because I'm too lazy to go upstairs to where the "use me for hours" computers are, I'm using a 15-minute one in the lobby. And I've already used 5 minutes checking my email.
I'm not sure what I'm smelling here at the library. My brain has identified it as vomit, but I'm rejecting that possibility, because otherwise I couldn't sit here.
I don't mean to suggest that the library is foul. I am a big library user. I really am. I check out books and books on tape all the time - even DVDs sometimes. I'm a "regular." But I'm at the downtown branch, and that branch is a quasi-homeless shelter, so it's definitely a place where I keep an eye on my purse and try really hard to not have to use the restroom in. It's just for the best.
My ex-boyfriend works at a library frequently tutoring students, and he (honest to God) caught two teenagers having sex in the stacks once at the branch where he was working. I'm just sayin'.
I tend to find small-town libraries and suburban branches nicer. They're smaller, so fewer resources, but they seem to just be a little better kept up, and without the hygeine issues. I could tell you where most branches are here in Austin. It always amazes me when people don't use libraries - when they spend lots of money on books instead of checking them out at the library. I mean, your taxes pay for the library, why not use it? It's FREE! I don't get not using it. But I can see where a trip the downtown branch might make a person shy away. Who wants to use a free Internet connection next to a toothless, stinky man surfing porn?
Well, I'm about to be logged off, so I'd better publish this. Wish me luck that I haven't been sitting in anything gross.
1 comment:
So, whatcha doin' at the library on a Monday morning? :-)
Ew on the smell...there was something to be said for those ladies that carried handkerchiefs doused in perfume many moons ago.
We don't have a lot of time to hit the library in the school year (at least, not yet, until Travis gets to THAT point in schooling, you know), but during the summer, we're there AT LEAST two to three times a week.
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