Last Night, at the Library
Mar. 6th, 2014 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseNow that I'm no longer in training, my hours at the library have been drastically cut. I'm working probably a totally of four times this entire month (though I was told by my colleagues at Roseville that that's actually pretty good when you're first starting out). At any rate, I was at Maplewood last night. I happened to decide to shelve things in the teen area, mostly for selfish reasons, mostly being that I wanted to see what kind of manga Maplewood had.
I'd finished shelving the manga and was starting on the YA novels when I overheard these two teen boys talking. "Oh, you really need to follow him." I glanced over my shoulder to see them admiring a Tumblr blogger who apparently does a lot of Power Ranger cosplay.
Suddenly, it hit me. Tumblr is full of teenagers.
I guess I knew that, but listening to this desperately nerdy kid talk to his friend… uh, I dunno. It made me feel old.
Speaking of feeling old, Mason came home the other day to grumpily inform us that there was a school-wide (Science side) assembly put on by Radio Disney featuring a presentation on….
…corn.
Yep. He said he missed library in order to watch a woman dressed at Maizey discuss corn. Here, in case you're curious is, Maizey's Facbook Page: https://www.facebook.com/maizey.mn
From there, I lifted this shot, because, really, you have to see Maizey to believe her:
Doesn't she just kind of give you nightmares? I think possibly more disturbing are the temporary tattoos and stickers of her that I keep finding around the house, because in those pictures the person under the costume is clearly WEARING HIGH HEELS.
Because, you know… corn is… fancy? Well heeled? Deeply creepy? I'm really not sure.
When Mason came home and said he learned about "corn" I had a flashback to when he was in first grade and had been moved, for the first time, into an advanced reading group. He was reading a packet about "jeans" but I misheard "genes" and though, "Oh, cool, the science magnet is living up to their name, getting him going on all the cool genetic stuff right away!" But, then he had to shake his head and say, "No, Ima, not 'genes' 'jeans,' as in denim."
I was like, "Oh."
And Shawn heard that they'd had a Radio Disney assembly about 'porn.' We were shouting, "NO! CORN!"
Although… the high heels.
*shivers*
Okay, let's talk about one more thing so we can all banish that horrible thought from our minds…. hmmm, let's see. Susan, the loach, is still alive. I'm going to call the tank reconditioning a success. Now I just have to find time to get some more tap water conditioner (I ran out after the last tank water change) and we're good. I think maybe weekend after this one (since this weekend is MarsCON), I'll get her a companion of some sort.
Also, today I get to make another trip to the laundromat. Whee! Although I'm secretly looking forward to losing a few quarters to the pinball machine.
I'd finished shelving the manga and was starting on the YA novels when I overheard these two teen boys talking. "Oh, you really need to follow him." I glanced over my shoulder to see them admiring a Tumblr blogger who apparently does a lot of Power Ranger cosplay.
Suddenly, it hit me. Tumblr is full of teenagers.
I guess I knew that, but listening to this desperately nerdy kid talk to his friend… uh, I dunno. It made me feel old.
Speaking of feeling old, Mason came home the other day to grumpily inform us that there was a school-wide (Science side) assembly put on by Radio Disney featuring a presentation on….
…corn.
Yep. He said he missed library in order to watch a woman dressed at Maizey discuss corn. Here, in case you're curious is, Maizey's Facbook Page: https://www.facebook.com/maizey.mn
From there, I lifted this shot, because, really, you have to see Maizey to believe her:
Doesn't she just kind of give you nightmares? I think possibly more disturbing are the temporary tattoos and stickers of her that I keep finding around the house, because in those pictures the person under the costume is clearly WEARING HIGH HEELS.
Because, you know… corn is… fancy? Well heeled? Deeply creepy? I'm really not sure.
When Mason came home and said he learned about "corn" I had a flashback to when he was in first grade and had been moved, for the first time, into an advanced reading group. He was reading a packet about "jeans" but I misheard "genes" and though, "Oh, cool, the science magnet is living up to their name, getting him going on all the cool genetic stuff right away!" But, then he had to shake his head and say, "No, Ima, not 'genes' 'jeans,' as in denim."
I was like, "Oh."
And Shawn heard that they'd had a Radio Disney assembly about 'porn.' We were shouting, "NO! CORN!"
Although… the high heels.
*shivers*
Okay, let's talk about one more thing so we can all banish that horrible thought from our minds…. hmmm, let's see. Susan, the loach, is still alive. I'm going to call the tank reconditioning a success. Now I just have to find time to get some more tap water conditioner (I ran out after the last tank water change) and we're good. I think maybe weekend after this one (since this weekend is MarsCON), I'll get her a companion of some sort.
Also, today I get to make another trip to the laundromat. Whee! Although I'm secretly looking forward to losing a few quarters to the pinball machine.