a job ain't nothing but work

[peacocks]

Davy, rock on. Librarians are the sexiest.

Re: a "wet mount," isn't that a way to prep a specimen for viewing under a microscope?

yes!

Librarians ARE sexy! I have a wee crush on a librarian couple who I imaginatively call Library Girl and Library Guy whenever I see them together at the grocery store. It's not creepy like that I swear.  N E wayz~ way to go DAVY!

[davy]

I won't lie...it tickles me to no end that I'm a librarian dating another librarian. 

Thanks for the encouraging words, everybody! Hopefully I'll know something definitive within the next couple of days...

[Dick]

Davy I love you too, only like 20% homo.

[Ignatius]

davy congrats modest homo

[alex]

Yeah, sounds cool davy!

I must say, I don't really get the eulogisation of librarians on the whole though. It seems like an awesome job to have, and some librarians are certainly very good people, but why librarians should be cool/sexy/whatever by definition, or even why being a librarian adds coolness or sexiness points, I don't understand, nor has that been my experience. Seems to be a pretty widespread conception, though.

Plus of course the best person working at our uni library is not a librarian, but a receptionist.

[G.C.R]

I think part of it is, here you have someone in a career where their job asks them to engage with you on cultural touchstones that may mean a lot to you (see also: those crushes that you have on The Girl Who Works at the Record Shop, The Boy at The Video Store, etc, etc) but that they also care enough about said cultural touchstones to go and get a university degree so as to engage with you on them.

What a clumsy last sentence: c'mere and engage with me all over this cultural touchstone, baby

Davy you should say that to all the girls (congrats!)

[Ignatius]

I like librarians because I like the librarians I know. Librarians are just other people.

[peacocks]

No, I like it when they let down their hair and take off their glasses at the end of the day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnFv29iPACc

[jess]

Yeah, I think it's part of the whole underneath the geek exterior, lurks a secretly sexy person thing. That's more of a trope for women (and I think the sexy librarian thing is most commonly applied to women), but think about teenage romantic comedies for example—the ones featuring a supposedly "ugly" unpopular girl always have an actually really hot girl who is just dressed in awkward, geeky clothing and has glasses and no makeup. Then somehow a makeover happens (often before prom or something), and OMG she's super hot! I think the classic librarian fantasy is like that—librarian is shy, geeky, glasses and bun-wearing person by day, but underneath lurks a hot chick. So davy, figure out how to channel that.

Oh, and congrats davy!

[davy]

I think part of it is, here you have someone in a career where their job asks them to engage with you on cultural touchstones that may mean a lot to you (see also: those crushes that you have on The Girl Who Works at the Record Shop, The Boy at The Video Store, etc, etc) but that they also care enough about said cultural touchstones to go and get a university degree so as to engage with you on them.

Plus, this: American Library Association Bill of Rights

The idea that these beliefs form the foundation of librarianship as a profession is pretty cool and helps me sleep at night.

[coldforge]

I must say, I don't really get the eulogisation of librarians on the whole though.

I don't want to make this into English Questions, but just because I'm talking to a furrier I thought I might mention that to eulogize somebody is to give their eulogy, that is, speak well of them after they have died. So generally you want to avoid eulogizing people like our nation's living librarian population.

[alex]

Yeah, thanks cf. I actually suspected it wasn't the right word, but I couldn't come up with a better one, and I was still kind of sleepy, anyway.

But, to make this into English Questions: What's a furrier, in this context?

[coldforge]

It's a corruption of 'furriner', that I just corrupted.

[alex]

Ah, thanks.

[G.C.R]

like a typo?

[coldforge]

no, it was a joke, but one of those jokes that you don't really expect anyone to get but yourself.

[peacocks]

I got it. I ha ha'd.

[bethany_m]

so i've been working at tim hortons for the last three weeks and it kinda blows, as these jobs tend to do.  I have another interview at a different company (still crappy, but not serving coffee) taking hotel reservations for an extra $1.50 an hour.  If i like the second job better, I should just quit tim hortons, right? And not feel bad?

I still work part time at my old job (pre tim hortons), and I've been there for six years so I am rusty at this whole new job thing.  I'd look for a comparable job here, but we are only going to be here through the summer so there isn't much point.

[davy]

I got the job!

And not only that, but they want to give me a wage higher than the maximum amount listed in the job posting! What!

Aaaaand, I get to keep some hours at the public library, so I'll be averaging out to ~40 hours a week and earning a living wage for the first time basically ever!

 

[alex]

The first sentence of your post wasn't much of a surprise, really. Awesome news in the remaining two paragraphs, though - congratulations!

[jm]

davy =

[kadiekatRN]

Go Davy!  Awesome!

[mixed cats]

hooray! that's so great!

[Nick Ink]

Good news, davy - well done.

I slept 10 hours last night and then kipped another 2 this afternoon. Seems like I need to do this every weekend just to catch up now, and I get so knackered by the end of the week. I thought you were supposed to need less sleep when you got old.   

[fishjim]

OMG, I just heard a bloke say "knackered" !!!

It's been years. Thanks for the memories, Nick.