sorry if you're Irish but I bet there's a real holiday out there that doesn't include masses of blackout drunks and punishing people for not wearing (and ruining the color) green.

if you don't get it, you just need to be in your formative years in an area where st. patrick's is a week long.

(I am actually begging for true whimsy today, please stop with the hell posts. I can't do it tomorrow and deeeeeeply wish I didn't have to interact with anyone beyond my Kindle tomorrow.)

(also: april fool's is the worst holiday, followed by valentine's and st. patrick's)

also I refuse to acknowledge Arby's jamocha shakes contain any coffee at all. A secret, special flavor. Better french vanilla, maybe.

I remain confused that (1) anyone consumes cold coffee, intentionally or otherwise, and (2) anyone goes to Dunkin' Donuts for anything other than donuts.

It's in the name...?

eh hm

🎶They said there was
a secret cord
you plug it in
you see the lord
but you don't really care for safety, do ya?

it goes like this
the pop, the hiss🎶

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

I love AO3 and their dedication to keeping this site up.

For the record, I love cataloging. I do.

But once again, the main reason I didn't go to library school until a decade after college was (besides $) the politics and constant rule shenanigans.

Just because I can do it doesn't mean it won't suck out my soul in the process.

Well, for anything older than 1920 or weird. Zoom through more recent stuff, but doesn't everyone who's done it for a while?

Thinking about not cataloging anymore.

I try to escape the current job and fail. I'm tired. I want out of here. I'd miss what I do but also...maybe not, the way things are going.

I'm probably decent at my job, but I'm shit at remembering fields and detailed rules though. And I'm slow.

Banner week for the weird. First a book with a bush's worth of unidentifiable antique plants (discarded the foliage, but the stain remains through about 6 leaves).

And now I get to figure out how to deal with an erotic comic book in Spanish. (very clearly written for men)

GNCRT best practices 👍

There are scores in here.

I don't know what else.

Regardless, yet another format I don't know. I played an instrument for 13 years and was in orchestra/chorus, so hope exists to figure it out. I can't figure out a key though! (or time signature; my musical vibes worked well enough, praise Suzuki)

if I ever make it through the office backlog of monographs and serials before I escape, that practice will not be continued.

However, said stacks fact has been added to my policy that if it isn't on my desk or otherwise brought to my attention it does not exist. (staff/time/resource reality)

I promise I'm alive, just swimming through concussion fog this month. (side-by-side fridge/freezers are superior, that's the moral here)

so anyway, this week I learned my predecessors cataloged music scores as books, and did not leaf through to find out any odd pagination.

With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.

Once the two nations lived in harmony

so what I'm saying is: if we have to live in a particularly terrible dystopia, at least make the horrors fun.

AND GIVE US BACK SOME COLOR!!!!!

...and the marketing on AI is literal garbage.
I am a millennial. I know how to get people excited about a thing. Give it a face. A name. Give it a brainworm of a song and a really good commercial that runs on every single platform but is still catchy and fun after 50x.
And rename ChatGPT. Gross.

side: I don't understand this nostalgic longing for clippy. was I the only one annoyed he thought I spelled my name wrong?! also, there were other options, chiefly dot or links the cat.

I don't want to give the evil overlords ideas, but on a marketing level a face or character is really important.

sysadmin: "would you like to enable AI in OCLC for cataloging?"
me: no I would not, I want to see how it goes.
me (internally): screaming about art and data centers being the ruination of everything wt-actual gd-f...also WHY WOULD I WANT AN AI CLIPPY?!

and I know a better label system exists. but they bought all these expensive custom sheets years ago, and IT is IT...🫥

Somebody did a bad thing to the catalog. IDK who, but I hope it's fixed by Mon or Tues.

In the meantime, woe to my stats. 15 phase boxes constructed, possibly the worst labeling system I've encountered yet (typewriter was faster), and the inefficiency that is dr appts in this city="nothing" done.

work this week is not real.

I am trawling all internet sources as "keeping up with developments in my field".

I could make phase boxes. I did help a coworker with subjects re: who's liable for war atrocities.

(But my to-do cataloging pile is boooooring. I do rare books, how tf did that happen?!)

simultaneously glad it's a short day and full of rage I have to drive so very far to the psych appt (in a direction that is neither "home" nor past it so as to not retread).

like no, you don't have to see me in person, i am a figment of god's nightmares at best.

also I want a nap.

I have been there with attempting to fill a request that the catalog could contain but doesn’t.

In the meantime I soldier on.

But I do follow the work on 19th century bookbindings and heavy metals. So in my mind, it theoretically could be useful to note a significant color, or if something was rebound that turns out to have a toxicity note for the original binding.

There’s always that thing about patrons (prob pub lib) asking about a book in a certain color.
As someone once on a ref desk and now a spec coll cataloger, I’m on the side of adding those (though I doubt anyone would support me on it)

(sorry, the cartesian nonsense is ever-present over here) 🙃

all that we ever see or seem is but a dream within a dream

Awesome, really awesome when a single interview process reveals just how much better it could be.

You kinda had me at sending the questions first, but then it got better. Transparency is a delight. 🥹