Too Quiet

10.31.03 (1:58 pm)   [edit]
The branch I'm working at today is too quiet. :? Ironically, I'm no longer used to working in a quiet library. By this time of day, my normal location would be filled with screaming kids (and adults), all fighting over the internet terminals and the latest Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh junk, or scrambling for whatever current videos were left on the shelf. I'm only about 7 minutes drive time away from my usual branch, but I could be on another planet as far as the difference between the patrons here and the patrons there are concerned. Weird how a few city blocks can change the whole demographic of the patrons at a library.

Purpose . . .

10.31.03 (11:45 am)   [edit]
I guess I forgot to put down the reasons behind my creating this blog in my first entry. First and foremost is to vent about things related to my job; working for a public library. I need to do something to get rid of all the pent up stress from dealing with the public all day long. After reading many other weblogs from other library staff, I finally got inspired enough and stressed enough to jump on the weblog bandwagon. Today however, I'm not working at my regular branch and it's kind of like a vacation day. Things are quiet (so far) and all I've been doing is working on this blog and surfing the net. :) Monday, when I get back to my own branch, things will be another story altogether . . . :cry:

Welcome to my blog.

10.31.03 (10:14 am)   [edit]
After spending a lot of time reading other people's library related weblogs, I've finally been inspired to create my own. Why Library Arcadia? Three reasons . . .

1. Because it's a play on my normal posting name of ArcadeAttendant. That seems to be my primary job these days . . . attending the patrons playing games on my library's internet computers.

2. Because I was an English Lit major in college and at one time, before getting my current position at a public library, I wanted to be an Elizabethan literature scholar. Arcadia is a very important place/symbol in Elizabethan literature.

Ar|ca|di|a «ahr KAY dee uh», noun. any region of simple, quiet contentment (from a region of ancient Greece famous in tradition for the simple, contented life of its pastoral people).

3. Arcadia is the happy place I imagine myself to be when the patrons at my library push me over the brink and I end up being like Jonathan Pryce's character at the end of Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil.