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Jan. 17th, 2013 03:00 pmThings:
- Still reading Les Miserables. Here is the thing about Victor Hugo: so, Fantine has died, Valjean has admitted his identity but has managed to slip away from Javert, the chapter ends with Valjean fleeing into the night on a nice little cliffhanger and then...let's talk about the battle of Waterloo! You wanted to talk about Waterloo, right? So let's talk about it! Forever! I mean, it's not that the writing about Waterloo is bad, it's just that I would like to get back to the plot sometime this week.
- For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I have acquired the Canadian cast recording of Phantom, which has Colm Wilkinson in the title role. I don't think I have ever heard Mr Wilkinson sing any role other than Valjean, so hearing him as the Phantom is alternately kinda neat and freaking me out. Partially because I keep picturing him as Valjean in the Phantom mask and partially because I am just not prepared for Valjean in any sort of romantic role. It's bizarre.
- Just had my first ever conversation with a patron who doesn't want a new Kingston library. He was all "But the current library works just fine!" Sir, the library may work okay, but in the past 18 months or so, this building has caught fire twice, flooded twice, and had to close for a week because the furnace was spewing noxious fumes. We manage to keep it reasonably warm in the library with space heaters (though we can't turn on too many or all the lights in the building go out), but the hallways and the bathrooms are frigid because the rest of the building gets no heat and has no insulation. In the summer, we have occasionally had to close because it is too hot to be in the library. We need a new building, I promise. And then the library will be bigger, so you win too!
- My least favorite patron ever - who a couple years ago turned in his card and cancelled his account with us because of some obscure grudge against the library system administration - has returned and opened a new account. And is just as creepy and superior and condescending as ever. And still calls me "young lady" and "a gentlefem and a scholaress"*, which wasn't funny the first time. I am really not pleased to see him again.
Good things, bad things.
*We have another frequent patron who calls me "a gentleperson and a scholar" quite a lot. That isn't funny either but also isn't objectionable, being wholly gender neutral rather than calling attention to my gender in a snotty and unnecessary way. Also, he isn't a condescending jerk.
- Still reading Les Miserables. Here is the thing about Victor Hugo: so, Fantine has died, Valjean has admitted his identity but has managed to slip away from Javert, the chapter ends with Valjean fleeing into the night on a nice little cliffhanger and then...let's talk about the battle of Waterloo! You wanted to talk about Waterloo, right? So let's talk about it! Forever! I mean, it's not that the writing about Waterloo is bad, it's just that I would like to get back to the plot sometime this week.
- For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I have acquired the Canadian cast recording of Phantom, which has Colm Wilkinson in the title role. I don't think I have ever heard Mr Wilkinson sing any role other than Valjean, so hearing him as the Phantom is alternately kinda neat and freaking me out. Partially because I keep picturing him as Valjean in the Phantom mask and partially because I am just not prepared for Valjean in any sort of romantic role. It's bizarre.
- Just had my first ever conversation with a patron who doesn't want a new Kingston library. He was all "But the current library works just fine!" Sir, the library may work okay, but in the past 18 months or so, this building has caught fire twice, flooded twice, and had to close for a week because the furnace was spewing noxious fumes. We manage to keep it reasonably warm in the library with space heaters (though we can't turn on too many or all the lights in the building go out), but the hallways and the bathrooms are frigid because the rest of the building gets no heat and has no insulation. In the summer, we have occasionally had to close because it is too hot to be in the library. We need a new building, I promise. And then the library will be bigger, so you win too!
- My least favorite patron ever - who a couple years ago turned in his card and cancelled his account with us because of some obscure grudge against the library system administration - has returned and opened a new account. And is just as creepy and superior and condescending as ever. And still calls me "young lady" and "a gentlefem and a scholaress"*, which wasn't funny the first time. I am really not pleased to see him again.
Good things, bad things.
*We have another frequent patron who calls me "a gentleperson and a scholar" quite a lot. That isn't funny either but also isn't objectionable, being wholly gender neutral rather than calling attention to my gender in a snotty and unnecessary way. Also, he isn't a condescending jerk.
