Love in the Library

I have a graduate degree in Library Science. I would love to work in a library, research department, or preferably a digital archive. But information professionals are only paid a fraction of their value, and that makes it hard to switch into something new and still make rent.

But I gotta give props to the Librarians (like Foxy) who are on the front lines serving the ill-mannered and often insane public.

From Overheard in New York:

Thug teen: I wanna take out this fuckin' book.
Librarian: Okay, well, go to the check-out desk.
Thug teen: I got to go to the other fuckin' desk, mothafuckah?
Librarian: Yeah, motherfucker. The other fuckin' desk.

--Brooklyn Library

And, appropriately enough, Foxy's most recent post is this:

A junkie in the bathroom asked me to help her shoot up as she attempted to simultaneously wrap a slender piece of rubberized hose around her bicep, tugging at it with her teeth and holding a disgustingly dirty needle in the other hand. I'm nice but I ain't that nice...

A far cry from the romantic Love in the Library...