Since it was my final day at the library and I really, really love working on the desk (checking people out instead of sorting and shelving all day), especially on weekends (Saturday being an eight hour day), Mary, my boss, let me be on the desk all day even though that is no longer the way that the weekend schedule works. 
 
So, being my last day working at the Iowa City Public Library, I decided that it would be fun to keep a list of random thoughts, commemorating the experience, and anyone reading this post is the lucky recipient of the fruits of said labor.  The thoughts are listed as they occurred to me throughout the day. 
  

1) Feeling uncomfortable in one's own home, let alone in one's own room, inner sanctum, is unacceptable and one of the biggest violations.
 
2)Amish in the City - a new reality tv show on UPN, apparently.  Says their website: 

[Provides] a unique look into the Amish journey of discovery, known as rumspringa, through... five Amish young adults (three men, two women) and their six roommates from diverse backgrounds (three men, three women) as they come to Los Angeles and learn to live with each other in an ultra-modern Hollywood Hills home. From moments serious and significant to lighter and trivial, cameras catch everything as the Amish journey outside their quiet rural areas and are gradually introduced to both the delights and challenges of modern metropolitan life. At the same time, the Amish kids give their city counterparts insight into their beliefs, values and a lifestyle dedicated to faith, modesty and unadorned means.

Check it out on Wednesday, July 28 for the series premier. Hrm...

 

3) The Moonjely's of Lime Kiln Lane

(real last name, real street in Iowa City)

Although, to my knowledge, the Moonjely's do not live on Lime Kiln Lane, shouldn't they, I mean, really?

 

4) I love little kids who sing all the time, especially if it is well-meaningly done at the top of their lungs from time to time.  Several reasons for this love:

a) that is the type of kid I was.  Hell, that's the type of person that I sill am.  Who am I kidding?

b) music is important and they (the singing little kids) already have some sense of that and are acting on it, if not consciously.  This will affect so many things in their lives.

c)they do not have an empty, thoughless existance.  This gives me hope.

d) singing in public is activly changing one's surroundings.

 

5)Library patrons are some of the most irrationally passive-aggressive creatures on the planet.

6) FRAGMENTS!

7) Kelly Dick on chicken pot pie:  "It's made of thermo-nuclear fission." (prompted by the inexplicable heat that it manages to harbor when you want to eat it, thus explaining the burns of biblical proportions that are inflicted upon eage pot-pie eaters everywhere.

8)DVD's checked out to a single person:  63 "fiction" (checked out for seven days each) and 25 "non-fiction" (checked out for 21-days each). Selfish? yep. Excessive? MAYBE!!?! (sarcasm in that last bit)

9) If Mussolini checked out materials from a library, whould he alywas get them back on time?

10) PASSIVE!-AGRESSIVE! PATRONS!

11) DaVinci Code: 
Release date- 3/1/2003
Number of months it has been out- almost 17
Current number of copies at the ICPL- 44 (20 of them are EXPRESS)
Number of holds as of 7/24/04- 37!!
 
Now, don't get me wrong, I read this book with my ears a few months ago and really like it quite a bit.  It was an intriguing story with some great happenings and learning points, but, wow...

12) I wonder how many of my friends know the extent to which my devotion and protetiveness of them runs?  The thought of someone hurting these people or making them cry for negative reasons or violating them in really any way makes my blood boil and vision cloud with a red miasma.  I have been involved in few fist fights in my 22 years of life, but I would go to the mat for so many of the people that I know, even some who are little more than casual acquaintances but really get to me, into my head, heart and soul for whatever reason.

13) Another great road name, actually exists in Iowa City: Dingleberry Road.
It probably connects to Lime Kiln Lane.  I am sure that the Moonjelys (Moonjelies??) live on the corner of these two streets.
::music:: I'm being followed by a Moonjely, Moonjely, Moonjely:: (thank you, Cat Stevens) [note: for purposes of this blog and this song, the name is pronounced moon-jelly]

On that note (haha) ended my final day as a Circulation Page at the Iowa City Public Library, July twenty-fourth, twenty-oh-four.  I was there for four days short of exactly one and one half years.  The ICPL and its employees will be greatly missed.