I’m turning 28 next month. I don’t feel old at all. I feel vibrantly, joyfully young. For a rare moment in my adult life, I feel beautiful. Exuberant. I have medication that makes my life easier to handle than it was a decade ago. I am in better shape than I’ve ever been. I am in love. I’m working towards new languages and professional certifications. I have a more solid understanding of who I am than I did at the beginning of my second decade. Thirty isn’t old—and twenty-eight isn’t old. I almost chuckle when other people my age fret about turning the big 3-Oh, but I know agism is real and harmful, especially for women. I just…don’t feel that way myself. I feel like I am starting over, like I am just beginning my life. It’s a good feeling. I look in the mirror and I see a woman of indeterminate age with bright, curious eyes and a strong body, and I don’t worry how many years she carries under her gaze.
I know people mean well but there is a limit to cultural relativism and westerners treating non-western cultures with kid gloves and not acknowledging them as being just as dynamic and complex as any other culture will always be patronizing and racist
do you guys wanna hear the latest drama among librarians across the country
Ask and I shall deliver
Okay so the latest drama is apparently there is a man calling across random libraries across the country and he’s asking for information on a court case specifically Brady v Maryland and when he calls he claims he doesn’t have a computer so he asks for the case to be read aloud to him
Here’s the thing. He is asking for uh not legal reasons but umm because he well….he well…he’s yknow 😳 And he’s called multiple libraries and done this and the FBI is supposedly involved and can’t catch this pervert that’s just calling libraries and getting off on librarians reading about some random court case
And apparently the dude called my work! And I wasn’t there for it but they put him on hold cause they were like “is it him…” so they got a male coworker to answer the phone and he immediately hung up and like hdjdhsjshhs?!? What is happening!!
I TALKED TO HIM. He is absolutely masturbating while you read the court case. He has hit MULTIPLE libraries ACROSS the country. He’s called my library twice and another local library last week.
So if you get a blocked number asking you to read Brady v Maryland wiki article while he “writes it out by hand,” hang up. Log it, tell your managers.
Links to just one of the ALA facebook posts about it, for evidence if you need to email your bosses:
Drinking kvass from the barrel on the street (USSR, 1970s).
In the summer, local bread factory made kvass and sold it from steel barrels around the city (barrels have a tap). This tradition is still alive in Russia, only barrels are sometimes smaller and made of plastic. Oh and they use single-use plastic cups now instead of glasses.
Whenever I’m feeling deeply confused about life and my direction my brain is like “Okay. Time to get sexier” Like girl that is not the solution every time
