Nyataimori

My Halloween costume last year:

Knee-high, high-heeled boots
Fishnet stockings with garters
Severe black skirt with scandalous slits
Corset
Wire-rimmed glasses (on a chain, even)
Props: a whip, and a book entitled “Power and Dominance”

I wore this to work at, in fact, the library. I pshaw at your dismissal of the sexy-librarian factor. It’s as sexy as you make it, woman!

Re-reading your post, I now see that you weren’t exactly dismissing the sexy factor. But I stand by my assertion that you have to actively pursue sexy-librarian-ness or someone else will steal all the good opportunities from under your (sexy) nose.

i just learned how to print out spine labels! i’m a spine label creating fiend!

spine labels…now that’s sexy. Baby, you can label my spine anytime.

Michele, you had better not be using an automatic call-number-importing program to print those spine labels. That fucking program was the bane of my library existence because it kept leaving off decimal places so .0 looked like O. Then the books get misshelved and then the books get lost and I still can’t convince the people in cataloguing to stop using the damn thing.

Dianna! You just removed all of the sexiness from spine labeling.

mmm…it’s not automatic. i am all manual, baby.

Michele, your sexy-librarian approval rating just shot back up. Manual labelling is the only way to fly.

Jolie, if it helps any, I used to do spine labelling on an old-fashioned typewriter. Typewriters are sexy.

totally sexy, especially if you’re holding your hair in the bun with a pencil and you have a smudge of typewriter ink on your cheek.

Right, and also you need to make generous use of the looking-at-people-over-your-glasses thing. Anyone who walks up to you needs to get a look of slightly stern inquiry as to what, exactly, might be so important as to warrant this interruption, young man.

and every so often you have to pull the pencil out and do a headshake and thrust your shoulders back/chest forward and then dump water all over your white blousy top.

Missy, it would behoove you to remember that this is a library! Dumping water when there are books around is thoroughly irresponsible and I would have expected much better behavior from you, a librarian. Clearly I was mistaken.

well i’m only a 2 week librarian. when my boss comes back from china, i’ll stop being a slave to the head librarian and go back to being a slave to editing. editors are a much more licentious group than librarians. we douse ourselves in water all the time. also we light fires in trash cans.

I approve of the water, the hair tossing, and most of all, I definitely approve of the manual labeling. I pretty much vote yes on this comment string altogether.

i would like a picture of all this, please.

Better yet, a sexy librarian flip-book! Michele can catalog it for you, under H for Hot.

Apparently, at UCSD’s library, it would be posted in the “HQ” section along with the other books under the subject heading “sex bibliography”

ps-i just did a search for “sex” in our library catalog—facinating

HQ is always the best section. HT through HX tend to be pretty interesting also, at least to anyone with an interest in gender & sexuality studies.

Tee hee! I said sex!

today is so boring. oclc is broken so i cannot be a sexy librarian. i can only be a slacker internet junkie.

An adventurer could be you?

Michele, you should take over Cementhorizon clan. I don’t want to, and anyway after I finish the last quest I’m deleting my character and starting from scratch with a new guy. I’d make a crappy clan leader at level 3, I’m telling you.

i was hoping christine would. she’s highest in stats.