Can The Adults Please Smoke? Part 26: Apparently They Can Drink, too!- Page 165

[shira467]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:08am

What's a card catalog?









Kidding. No, really kidding.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:10am

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:10am

Shira - go to the 'shut up' thread

Addy - YES!!!!! And especially the smell.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:11am

Edited - the picture was too big for the thread...

Q - yes, exactly! I remember it well...
(It makes me a little sad that the original pages are all lost.)

Updated On: 12/5/08 at 12:11 AM

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:16am

Ok, so I'm chatting with the lady who watches our house while we're away, and she's telling me about this 'drama' she's been going through with her son. Seems he had an 'accident' at school, which necessitated SIXTY-FIVE stitches! Now, I realize I've never been the adventuresome sort who needed such medical attention, but I am completely alone in thinking that SIXTY-FIVE stitches indicates something . . . well, EXTREME?!?

Honestly, what were they doing, learning how to juggle chainsaws?!?

And Addy, I wore that hat just yesterday

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:17am

I loved the borrowers cards to check out books...

(ps - Mamie really liked this book! )

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:18am

Wow - 65 stitches? That does seem pretty extreme!

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:24am

OMG, I think I may cry! So many memories . . .

And how sick am I? I have our home library (spread over many rooms, mind you) laid out according to the Dewey Decimal System. And yes, it's all alphabetized.

I even treasure all the books I've picked up from library sales (and there are many) which still have the library's sticker on the spine. Especially treasured are those with a pocket in the front for the check-out card

[shira467]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:26am

65 stitches? And she didn't tell you WHY?

I love the library card catalogs. Both from a old-school sentimental manner, but also from a gorgeous drawer set! The Dewey Decimal system I always had difficulty with.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:28am

Q - I love that. All of it.

In my next life, I want to be a librarian.

I used to work in my college library. I loved working the check out desk, and stamping the 'due date' on the cards in the books being checked out.

VERY happy memories.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:29am

Shira - yes! They are gorgeous pieces of furniture...

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:30am

Shira - I grew up in a library. Honestly, my house wasn't a safe haven, so the library 3 blocks away was where I spent ALL my time. I came to love the order, the quiet, the sheer vastness of available knowledge it represented.

And that ordering system? It all makes perfect sense, if you approach it from the way it's laid out.

I have a printout of the full breakdown - which is 26 pages, single-spaced - and it makes it so EASY to keep all our books available and present to us. And we're working with . . . well a few dozen or so. Bookcases full

[shira467]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:30am

Did you work late nights Addy...I bet that's why those library memories are so fond!

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:34am

Our CD cabinet is a replica of an old card catalogue. I wanted the metal pulls on the draws with slots for interchangable indicators for what the draw holds.

And yes, they are all categorized. And alphabetized.

OCD?!?!? Where? . . . .

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:37am

Q - I love the appeal of order, system, complete records...

I arrange, order and categorize my home, also. All of it.

It makes me happy.

And, Shira, I did work the late evenings. My boyfriend used to meet me at closing hours and walk me back to my dorm. Lots of happy memories!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:38am

OCD! It's a good thing, Q!!

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:43am

OCD is good when everyone else cooperates

May I vent?

I'm not feeling well this evening, and the TinMan's response was to filter that awareness through how it inconvenienced HIM.

Not good.

For some reason, I'm thinking of my dear friend D's response when I told her he had forgotten my birthday - "Oh, jewelry!"

Lesson of the day - gay men are still MEN.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:45am

I'm sorry, Q.

You need to treat yourself to a library visit tomorrow!

(And I hope you feel better!)

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:48am

Interestingly, Addy, I have to go to our main shopping district tomorrow, which also happens to house our cultural center - WITH library! And I must say, for a small provincial outpost such as ourselves, it's actually a lovely facility.

It doesn't have Sam Shepard walking down the steps, mind you, but it'll do

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:50am

Go get lost in the stacks for a while, Q! It does a soul good!

Ah, Sam Shepard. Yes, please.

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:55am

You do realize, don't you, that in the movie in my mind, he:

Walks down those small-town library steps,
Meets me at the table where I am working on curing cancer,
Takes my hand and leads me to the front door,
Where he changes into a leather bomber jacket,
And exits as Chuck Yeager in THE RIGHT STUFF -
Riding off into the sunset with me bouncing along behind against his . . . behind.




F*CK Jessica Lange.
Misha's baby AND Sam for life?!?!?
Please.

[shira467]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 12:59am

Oh, my. This is getting indecent!

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 1:02am

Shira - when it comes to Sam in my mind, it ALWAYS ends up that way.

Paul Newman will remain my ideal male figure, but Sam will forever be my ideal MATE.

And that takes nothing away from the TinMan, mind you, who is as close to JohnBoy as I could find - and JohnBoy was my first and greatest love.

If only JohnBoy weren't so narcissicistic . . .

But I digress.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 1:03am

And on THAT note... to bed, to bed I go!

Sweet dreams, all.
(I think we know what Q will be dreaming about!)

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/08 at 1:04am

I'm sure I have no idea what you mean!








Uh, huh.


Nighty night!