scenes from the library(ish)

[carolinecrane]

So last week the police arrested three local homeless people for three separate murders. They apparently went on a killing spree in the homeless community, killing three other homeless people. They got seven dollars off one of them. But I suppose you don't really kill the homeless for their wallets.

Anyway, the police caught them when they went in to clear out the latest homeless tent city and found the three of them asleep in a tent with one of the bodies. That's just unsanitary. And stupid, because the cops always give the homeless here a heads up when they're about to clear out a squat so the homeless can gather their possessions before they're kicked out.

The only reason this is even tangentially related to the library is because one of my coworkers looked up the names of everyone involved, and five out of six of them have library cards. In an unrelated incident, we had a violent patron removed from one of our branches recently, so the powers that be are upping the police presence in the library to 20 hours a week. For our 'safety'.

Nobody ever said this was a safe job; we do work with the public, after all, and we're the last place on the planet to discriminate, basically. Which is good! But it's not without risk.

Some of my coworkers are freaking out, as though they didn't know all along the dangers that go along with dealing with strangers of varying degrees of sanity all day.

New goal: Move to NYC before October so I can go to Comic Con in the super cute costume I am planning. It could happen!

Comments

[mythicgeek]

I think a lot of people wouldn't make the connection to general public and such potential dangerous folks when they think 'library'. It's not surprising to me, but I didn't proactively think about it either, you know?

Ooh? Costume? Now I am curious :D Unless, you know, you already told me and I've forgotten. Like I do.

[carolinecrane]

People mostly still think of libraries as quiet places filled with books and nerds and students. Little they know.

I have not told anyone about my costume yet! Though I'm not 100% sure I can pull it off. We'll see.

[mythicgeek]

The Seedy and Dangerous Underbellies of Libraries: tonight at 11.

Ahhh I'm so curious now. I hope to actually pull something off this year myself, though God only knows what. I still want to do Zoe Washburne.

[carolinecrane]

Zoe! You would make a gorgeous Zoe. Jennie is going to come if I'm in the city for Comic Con this year, so I'm trying to think up costumes for both of us now. I want us to ~match. Because I'm a loser like that.

[mythicgeek]

Aww, thank you! It's been on the back-burner a few years now.

And I totally love the matching ideas so we're both losers.

[yabamena]

Hooo-ly crap. Yeah, that is a little freaky. But yeah, working with the public means all of the public. Yeesh.

And now I'm curious about your costume. Tell!

[carolinecrane]

No one is turned away from the library! Unless they're drunk, violent, or surfing porn. They they have to get out.

I'm not even really into steampunk, but it would be a steampunk Disney thing and I'm not sure I can pull it off. I will attempt it if I get the chance to go, however. And if I'm still stuck here I suppose there's always Dragon*Con.

[yabamena]

Which is as it should be.

That would be crazy awesome! I think the only steampunk Disney thing I've seen was a Steampunk Tinkerbell, but I'd love to see what you came up with whichever con you end up going to.