When I was a wee little little girl, I wanted to be a librarian. I thought the library was the coolest place on the planet. There were small rooms and alcoves and hallways full of books that I wanted to badly to read but I was too afraid to pick them up because they were so big and old. The librarians that I saw every few weeks were like celebrities to me… Janice would have story times and she would help me find books and Mike was a long haired hippy and I’m was always sure he was actually Tommy Chong.

In high school when we took our “What Job Should You Have” tests, no matter how many times I took the test, Librarian was always in the top 3; I wasn’t mad.

I love the Dewey Decimal System.
I love the old card catalogue.
Alphabetization is as close to heaven as I’ll ever get.

Today, all I want to do is alphabetize and catalogue all of my books.

and I’m not mad.

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