Alicia

I work a job that assumes the household has a second income. Financially, nothing is good. I could get out, but there’s nowhere to go and nowhere to get out of it if I did.

The job search doesn’t get far when there aren’t any postings.

Living and working in a house of cards, waiting for the jenga game to end and knock it all down.

My tired is tired.

Or hell, how much research is admissible into a catalog record.

Part of this is a reparative description question. I’m not in a place to add notes like “includes racially insensitive depictions of x group”, but without it a subject re: that group doesn’t make sense.

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don’t feel good.

I want mozz from arby’s but nothing else. but I’m hungry. and it’s raining. and a fountain drink from 7-11 maybe.

I wish all self-published authors a great day…and the wisdom to get an editor and take the advice.

Today on the desk:

Recommending the addition of 655 7 polemics $2 aat and 500 note for self-published in a record review.

Because sometimes that makes sense for near-unreadable arguments about the main cause of the Civil War.

A supervisor from the past, sure. Someone who has any idea about my ability to work at a place that isn’t designed to ruin me, absolutely.

But you don’t want the supervisor in name and inaction.

dear hiring managers,

I’m not applying if you want a reference from my current supervisor. He has no idea what my job is and I’m not inclined to open myself to potential retaliation for trying to escape.

“my boy only breaks his favorite toys”, but it’s about a job

“oh, here we go again”

“puzzle pieces in the dead of night, should've known it was a matter of time”

The oldest Gen Xers are 60, not 64. The oldest Millennials are 45. A category including ages45-64 includes 3 representative generations, not one.
Just because there are 4 categories doesn't mean they're broken down by generation.

If I hear one more thing about the library at Alexandria I’m gonna fuckin’ lose it.

It. Wasn’t. A. Great. Loss.

It. Took. Centuries.

I don’t caaaaaarrrrreeee.

yeah, sure, cool, hire us and dump us in the deep end. it’s cool, we’re librarians, we have degrees in “figure it out” or something.

one team member has to learn how to catalog a daguerrotype.

the other, a map cataloger, has a broadside/print.

me, special collections, learning serials.

format party (and nobody knows how to do the thing, I am having A Time)

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related: my rage at bound-with serials last week involved me pleading for a diagram.

I got one.

For the record, the students ain’t gonna look in the summary when there’s a nice bulleted list.

(you cannot tell me we would not be better off with 📇 instead of nomen)

wompwomp
time to rewrite serials shenanigans for my own notes

because look, someone made flowcharts.

cataloging would be a lot better if the instructions were half flowcharts, diagrams, and pictograms

highly recommend a pop playlist from 1998-2007 at the dentist.

“livin la vida loca” during numbing for a filling was a great distraction. recovery to “the scientist” and “soul meets body”? lovely.

(nitrous helped too.)

For the record, jello molds are Cooking (Gelatin)

Don’t get me wrong, I love a dessert salad of cream cheese, orange jello, and pineapple.

But the tropical salad here is bananas, lemon juice OR crushed pineapple, celery, lamb, mustard, mayo, olives, almonds, salt, and watercress.

NO.

Cookbook cataloging note:
“Mousses” are under desserts.
If your mousse is made of broccoli or blue cheese, it is merely “Cooking”, I guess.

Or a salad, according to this 1958 horror.

For the record, whatever I am is cishet, but attraction, etc. is either rare or fictional.

Squicked by the idea of losing personal identity to a couple+ or having to run everything by someone else, and the expectation of such.

But fiction is fun & dreams are nice. Would like a friend. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Add another checkmark to the maybe aro/ace/demi pile.

Saw somewhere it could also just be nd shenanigans. Either way, ick.

I’m too old & tired to want more than general companionship anyway AND as long as it works like a cat.

side note: FOLIO.
(am aware this might be the real problem I’m facing, but serial inexperience means I don’t know.)

If anyone knows how to handle bound-with serials, especially when it’s a few issues of different titles (and 1820s old), please dm me. My monographs-trained brain cannot compute, I lack documentation (local or otherwise), and have questions. 😭

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…and have little to no support on HOW to do the thing unless you track it down yourself.

Ignoring the rest of it (I hate half my medical “team”, scared to drive interstates, etc.), I can’t do this anymore. I’m exhausted and tired (fed tf up) of working at all, let alone so far from family.