[Publib] shape-shifters

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Years ago when I was in therapy for depression (mental, not financial,  
though the two tend to occur simultaneously) I had this therapist who, after  
months of asking me odd questions about myself, finally admitted that she 
wanted  to go with me on a shape-shifting journey.  
 
I told her that for the money I was paying to listen to myself talk, I  
could journey just about anywhere in the continental U.S.  And that was the  
end of the therapy.  I shifted my shape out to my car and never looked  back.  
 
One of the nice things about not working as a librarian is that you don't  
have to pretend that you approve of your clients' reading selections--or do  
anything whatever to satisfy them.  You have no idea how much fun it is to  
laugh and say, "You actually read that stuff?"  
 
It is Friday.  Time to remember the hidden truths of our  profession:  
there are stupid questions.  There are even stupider  patrons.  By God, there 
are absolutely idiotic colleagues and bosses, and  if there weren't, you 
wouldn't have a job.  So thank the Almighty for those  poor tastes, badly-formed 
opinions, moronic choices and the incessant queries  about the men's room, 
copy machine and such.
 
Because if you worked where I do you'd have to re-write an entire union  
contract by Monday morning.  Much easier to deal with the guy who thinks  
Roosevelt was a "hidden Jew" and wants to find information about avoiding cosmic 
 ray contamination.  
 
And so, off to find the bottom of that Cabernet bottle.  I know it's  down 
there beneath the cork somewhere.
 
M. McGrorty
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