Akchually, attending a renaissance festival in the rain and the mud is the only Authentic Serf Experience, and you all should get on my level.

All right. Everybody. Be safe, be strong, hydrate, and look after each other. Sad that I have to work today, but the library defends your right to information, so I hope I'm helping out in some way.

The school district put out door-hangers this week about their upcoming levy. Idk how many they made. 500? 1000? There's a typo in the subhead. In the word "education."

It's a kittycat recursion!! 💜

My best Shakespeare paper was written tipsy, the night it was due, in the local cafe that was open all hours on exam week. (Shoutout to Enoch for the Bailey's in my hot chocolate!) Granted, I accidentally submitted it with the filename CoriolanusIsAMamasBoy.doc, but I stand behind that analysis.

Inspired by @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social and the Vampurr, here's my favorite piece from today's library craft.

Not as embarrassing as judging people for what they enjoy reading, Padraig.

I was mildly grumpy that the taco bell guy called me sweetheart. But call me sweetheart AND forget half the ingredients in my cheesy gordita crunch?? I am swearing an oath of vengeance.

And if your institution won't let you do one, call it a "Freedom To Read" display. I mean. They wouldn't want to say they hate FREEDOM, right? (This is petty and simplistic but it has actually worked.)

Damn, that bird sounds really loud, I hope it's not stuck in the AC hose, let me--oh shiiiiii!!! [Artist's recreation, real bird too fast for photos]

Handed off a bunch of duplicate @bpal.bsky.social samples to a fellow librarian doing a multisensory event, and now the whole staff is yelling "SMELL ME!!" and dramatically reading the descriptions on the website. Good times!

OH MY GOD WE'RE IN THE PLAYOFFS!!!

When you're working through the clinch games...

"Camilla, we did it right, didn't we?"

Fever won, Reds won....Bengals who? 😬

Reds home runs are extra fun when you're sitting right next to the smokestacks.

New achievement unlocked: splitting a shift on opposite sides of the city with a 3 hour break in the middle. The gas is expensive but it's actually a fun kind of whiplash.

Just got hugged so hard it hurt by a 6'5" teen I've known since he was 9. And he only let go because he wanted to show me pics of all his crochet projects. I love my job.

Booted up my current (evil) Skyrim run only to discover that my next Dark Brotherhood quest was Vittoria Vici and...yeah, that's a little much right now.

If people don't stop getting hired away while I'm in charge of the library, I am going to start taking it personally.

My nephew's current obsession is "The Bear Ate Your Sandwich" by Julia Sarcone-Roach, so yesterday at lunch we invented the extremely Cincinnati version, "The Bear Ate Your Five-Way." He is working on the illustrations now. Caldecott, here we come!

On the one hand, it's ridiculous that I have to justify getting a Covid booster, but it was also pretty funny to say "I'm overweight and have a mental health conditon" to the pharmacy tech like at least one of those things wasn't obvious.

Sharing for visibility, but also a video of ICE getting their asses kicked by a bunch of folks in fursuits might actually ruin their recruiting numbers.

Ok, I hate to say it, but Elly needs the Jamie Tartt treatment. I don't think it's the same problem, necessarily, but benching him for a game is the only answer that might work.

Congrats to Taylor and Travis but especially to the Swifties living their best lives right now. 💜

Theoden donning his armor, but it's me putting on the first flannel of the season.

Omg there's a squirrel on the field of the Red Sox/Yankees game.

Lol I am being farmed out to a library across town for 3 weeks in September. I did not get a say in this. I'm not mad about it, per se, just kind of frustrated and annoyed. It feels a lot better to volunteer for something than to BE volunteered for it.

Anne Perry, the author, straight up killed a lady when she was a teenager and Peter Jackson made a movie about it.

Just got some coloring sheets for a big event this week. They're OBVIOUSLY AI. Like three-arms, mangled-text AI. I will draw my own before I use them.

I will not encourage my dogs to pee on the lawncare cybertruck. I will not encourage my dogs to pee on the lawncare cybertruck. I will not...

Oh god the wee baby gen z new hire is a r*ylo and I am trying. So hard. To be kind.

There is no describing the fall I just took. I swear it was like a cartoon. Tripped over a curb, then over a concrete parking stop while I was trying to regain my balance, hit and tripped over another curb, and landed in the ornamental grass landscaping. All because I wanted 9pm ice cream.

This just feels like a recipe for getting someone injured.

They are going to play this ballgame at like 1am, aren't they?

The mood swings of this baseball game, holy shit.

I have been weighed. I have been measured. And I have been found wanting.

These are just garden variety Harlequin Presents titles.

They closed ours sometime in the 80s or 90s. By 1999, students just used the bathrooms, and the smell of cigarettes and wet paper towels suffused everything in a miasma that makes me gag just thinking about it.

The NYT games page glitched, and it says my crossword streak is broken. My 1,854 day streak. All my APES, gone.

Ew, I tried to leave a comment on NextDoor and I used the word stupid (quoting the commenter), and it flagged the language as possibly abusive. When I agreed to edit it, it AUTOMATICALLY rephrased the whole thing with AI. Into an awful, stilted essay tone. Fortunately it didn't auto-post, but ew.

Ugh, we're losing 3 staff members, and they're moving up to such great things but uuuuugh nooooo.

I know knee replacements are super routine now, but the timeline is hilarious. April-July: *Mom worrying about stuff* 730am: MOM: ok, i'm going in 8:45: DAD: mom's out of surgery 9:30: MOM: hey kids, i'm awake (And yes, 6-12 weeks of recovery, but it's still funny.)

"I'm saving you guys $200 by not asking for this in-warranty service, so I want my tires rotated for free." This guy at the car place is NOT beating the BMW driver stereotype.

"Smoking or non?" Like, people used to fully smoke cigarettes WHILE THEY WERE EATING in a restaurant and we were all like yeah ok that's fine.

How nice it is to go into a season finale knowing it's not a series finale. #Murderbot, go!

IYKYC (If you know, you're crying.)

I know the bpal folks through a friend, and I'm proud of them for this (but not surprised, they have hella solid principles).

Never mind, I've had Goodfellas and a Donkey chai and everything is good forever.

Standing in an OU bookstore realizing that I'm the age of the parents at orientation and I am not okay.