I feel totally worthless...in terms of school stuff right now. but pretty good otherwise. I learned so much this weekend...actually it has been the last few weeks that I have learned a lot about myself and the world. It feels so good.
on a not so super note: this really creepy guy who likes to bother women who work at libraries came back to College Lib. tonight and sat watching Alycia and I for two hours...well, except for the TEN times he went to the bathroom. yuck. I think I might have write an entry about it, although, I should just do school stuff.
One nice thing about school stuff is that you can be worthless for a while, but with a little effort, you can make up for it. That's always how it works for me, because I work best in spurts. One of the things I'm trying to change is that I want more frequent spurts.
About the creepy guy, let me apologize on behalf of males everywhere. I haven't quite decided how I feel about people who are a bit off in a bad way. Of course if you hurt someone, then you are worthy of my anger. But if you are just creeping everybody out and pushing the boundaries of polite society, then I'm not sure what to think. Everybody has a story, and if you knew the story, you might pity the guy, or you might revile him. Here's a thought. Maybe nobody ever taught this guy that what he's doing is not ok?
I find that when I've been working on papers, I have the urge to write and write about everything.
So what have you been learning? (Just expressing my curiosity, not expecting you to reply here.)
yeah, I absolutely know what you are saying about creepy people (it is the same as weird, sad, whatever). I always feel like they have a story. Which is why I was only mildly freaked out by this guy the other few times I talked to him even though he made me very very uncomfortable, in fact more uncomfortable than anyone else I've ever talked to in my life. The first thought I had about him was "God, he feels like a really repressed Christian who needs to let some shit out". Scarily though, I also felt like he was so repressed that he might kill someone. Those were my feelings about him--I actually consciously thought that. But yeah, there was a part of me that felt really bad for him at the same time. [One of the times, a few months ago, I actually tried talking to him--because I thought maybe he was lonely. We talked a bit about eastern philosophy and some other things--it was weird, and I felt the creepy feeling, but I tolerated it.] Last night, I told Alycia that I was just going to try to talk to the guy about what he was doing.
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I'm in 571 right now and Mark Wendt is talking about his experiences as a public reference librarian. One thing he has been talking about is knowing what your job is. Your job as a person might be to help people feel allright, but that's not your job as a circ/info/reference desk staffer.
But yeah, if you feel icky, scared or whatever, definitely take appropriate precautions. Sad as it is, in everyday situations we have to be a little bit judgmental and err on the side of caution.
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I feel totally worthless...in terms of school stuff right now. but pretty good otherwise. I learned so much this weekend...actually it has been the last few weeks that I have learned a lot about myself and the world. It feels so good.
on a not so super note: this really creepy guy who likes to bother women who work at libraries came back to College Lib. tonight and sat watching Alycia and I for two hours...well, except for the TEN times he went to the bathroom. yuck. I think I might have write an entry about it, although, I should just do school stuff.
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One nice thing about school stuff is that you can be worthless for a while, but with a little effort, you can make up for it. That's always how it works for me, because I work best in spurts. One of the things I'm trying to change is that I want more frequent spurts.
About the creepy guy, let me apologize on behalf of males everywhere. I haven't quite decided how I feel about people who are a bit off in a bad way. Of course if you hurt someone, then you are worthy of my anger. But if you are just creeping everybody out and pushing the boundaries of polite society, then I'm not sure what to think. Everybody has a story, and if you knew the story, you might pity the guy, or you might revile him.
Here's a thought. Maybe nobody ever taught this guy that what he's doing is not ok?
I find that when I've been working on papers, I have the urge to write and write about everything.
So what have you been learning? (Just expressing my curiosity, not expecting you to reply here.)
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But yeah, if you feel icky, scared or whatever, definitely take appropriate precautions. Sad as it is, in everyday situations we have to be a little bit judgmental and err on the side of caution.
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