I try and change things up in terms of places that I like to study and today I have chosen the Crete Public Library to grow my roots for the next 6 hours. I have a ton of dense reading to do on topics such as the gross anatomy of the central nervous system and dysarthrias and aphasias. While I am just beginning my leap into graduate school-dom, I need to concentrate on this material because it is difficult to grasp.
That being said, I can't accomplish any of the work I want to do when there is a lady at the information desk yapping her yapper about some damn romance novel she wants to check out! She is using her outside voice in an environment notoriously known for requiring an inside or less voice. It takes all of my energy not to get up, walk around the corner, and shoot her some sort of look making it known that I am annoyed at her voice and topic of conversation, and I am trying to concentrate on my reading. You know what look that is. Eyebrows raised, head pushed forward a bit. We've all done it. And a cell phone just went off.
I bet you can all guess what really grinds my gears: not quiet libraries. What happened to the days of sitting in a library and not worrying about some librarian talking to patrons about horror movies? That's happening right now! It doesn't help that my distractability level is off the charts and I'd rather be doing anything than reading about the calcarine sulcus and lingual gyrus. I need to be locked in a soundproof room with no windows to get work done.
I shot Cindi Lu a text today from the Crete Library referring to the noise level here. From her desk at the Steger-South Chicago Heights library she replied, "There are no more quiet libraries!" She really hit the preverbial nail on the head with that response. Take a bow, Cindi, you deserve it. The librarians are now saying "bye" at the top of thier lungs to people that are leaving and talking about their days. I might just leave. No, instead I will eat my lunch right where I sit! I'm being wildly inappropriate and terrible.
4 comments:
welcome back. your third post ended with a spelling error. hilton is shaking his head right now.
ask maria about library solitude. she is notorious for shushing people without batting an eyelash. a force to be reckoned with!
You're being terrible Maryiel.
Dang! I totally wanted to say "Oh Muriel, you're terrible...."
i thought you had something consistent going here, but i was mistaken. get on it.
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