Alone and Unobserved

Missing Picture Books, But Not That Much

I’ve spent the day down in the children’s section, and every minute that passes convinces me more and more of two things: 1) I would make a damn fine children’s librarian; and 2) I never, ever want to be one. Having to chase after kids all day, day after day, would seriously kill me. Tomorrow, I’ll be glad to go back up to my third-floor reference desk and my boring, sedate adult patrons.

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One Response to “Missing Picture Books, But Not That Much”

• Live from the Children’s Library! « Alone and Unobserved Says:
  June 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

  [...] today’s shift. Being a children’s librarian has certainly grown on me in the year since the first time I subjected myself to it, but I’m not entirely won over. Drunks and schizophrenics have nothing on the mental terror [...]