Why Did the Caterpiller Go To the Library? Because He Wanted to Be a Bookworm !!

So we have a new addition to our library pets, A June Bug. My wife found him on our front porch and instead of squishing him, we decided to keep him. When you put it like that, it's a good thing our parents don't look at us like we do bugs... I would lose with those two options (should we squish him... or keep him?).


Aren't bugs just the perfect little pets for a library? I have always thought we needed more fun pets at the library. We have shown off the awesome Tarantula, and the fun red ants and some pretty butterflies... all of which, except the tarantula (kid favorite, mother not approved ;) are all gone. We had some Gerbils.. but they've since passed on, and the birds I wanted to bring would have a hard time with librarians shooshing them all the time. But you see, Bugs don't make noise, and if they die there's a billion more just outside that you can fit into the cage before the poor kids even notice the difference...

So I like this picture. Tarantula vs June Bug. Who will win. Well, we've got big, hairy, extremely scary looking Charlotte (tarantula) in one corner. anf facing off with her, we've got Hiss (June Bug), buggy, yellow, "cute" and completely harmless but well known for it's devestating "hissy fit".... the only thing in the way of this epic fight are the butterflies, always the peace keepers they are.... oh, and yea, some glass is kinda in the way too...
Stay tuned until next time, when we see Armadillo vs. Pill Bug. Who's gonna get Rolled?!

BFF of the Library

Our Best Friend Forever decided he couldn't wait in line outside like everyone else last night. He decided he couldn't stand being away from us any longer and so he tried to get in and find us at the library. Sadly we weren't there to open the door for him so he had to go through the bathroom overhead window. Well, of course, the hardest window to get into would obviously be the best one to use. I feel so bad, like I wasn't there for my best friend or something because what happened next is tragic. He slipped on the broken glass in the bathroom and cut his hands up real bad. Poor little guy... At least he was already in the bathroom so there was a sink and tissue to clean up with and toss on the ground. Well, poor guy then searched frantically for one of us... any one of us to just satisfy his Kearns withdrawls. Well, he couldn't find us anywhere so he sadly turned to find a way out. Obviously he felt that climbing through glass would just cut him more, and he didn't want us to have to clean up more than had already been done all over the library. So he finally slipped out the front door. When I see him, I have a message for him... "When you really need to come and see us, use the door. It's a lot easier to break, no bleeding, and you don't have to climb on anything."

The Story Begins With A

So I finally got to this point. I have been fighting the move into Online Blogging about my Job, but It has become ineveitable. I love where I work. There are few places stranger than the library. I don't mean the building, though late at night in the library with all the lights off gives off a certain "Ghostbusters" feeling, but I mean the class of people frequenting the place.
I have few days go by that I don't get the feeling that reading and mild clinical insanity go hand in hand.
To give you an example, I have developed a certain O.C.D. lately. I can't go into a room with a book shelf and not notice if the books are arranged by the Heralded Dewey Decimal System. And if they're not, good heavens! Look Out! As I tear them apart and arrange them into Self Help Books and Self Destruction Books. And don't you even think about putting Tom Clancy and Jane Austen together. I'd be tapping the light switch and rubbing my belly until I burned a hole into my stomache. So my theory of Clinical Literary Obsessive Compulsionism even applies to the librarians themselves. Could you expect any less? Spending more time with books than with your own species can only lead to some social strangeness. I'm gonna have to ask a doctor about this....
Another funny thing you'd only understand as a devotee of the Library... I actually used the Thesaurus and the Online Dictionaries to decide on a URL for this blog. I mean, seriously who does that? Well, Apparently I did. Let me know, you other Online Library Gurus and Anti-Socialites if I'm wrong about any of this. So. I guess this begins, in the middle of the story of course, the story of my life in the Library... I hope I can survive it... and I really hope I at least get a cool T-Shirt.