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  1. Hi Kat! Welcome to the forum, and what a great question to start off with! I'm with you ... I find it a bit hard to believe Dr. Watson (any version) was a Casanova. I'm a bit skeptical of any of Holmes' remarks on the subject; I think it's a very good chance he was being sarcastic when he made either of the remarks you cited. And I think he was also acknowledging that his pal was far more interested in women than Holmes himself was. But neither of those things makes John a womanizer; just a regular guy with an eye for the ladies. I never had the impression that it was more than that. That's my take on it, anyway. I have no doubt the Sherlock writers enjoyed keeping it all a bit mysterious, though, as to what was "really" going on.
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  2. Good question!!!!!!! Yes, I find it very annoying. Maybe you're right, it's something to do with attention span ... but I've long been under the impression that most Americans simply can't read or write very well, based chiefly on reading their emails. Aaaghh. That's one reason it's so refreshing to come here to the forum ... everyone's so literate! Oh, and here's a couple of head-banging emoties for you. Be my guest. And if things get really dire:
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  3. My dropping by this board has been very sporadic over the last year, so I missed this whole discussion. Welcome daffodilkhan, if you are still around! Love the juxtaposition of soft & hard in your username. I too am a public children's librarian, now in my 21st year of this glorious employment, and four weeks away from my first anniversary of Covid protocols. It's been tres fun (not). I actually find that we are nearly as busy as we were, pre-pandemic. Our busyness has shifted a bit to different formats . . we are not wrangling in person toddler storytimes or running herd on mobs of after school tween gamers starting fights on the computers (and can I say I don't miss that at ALL . .?) . .but the types of mental/planning work we have always done vis. programming, analyzing library trends, ordering books, etc. still goes on. If anything, ramped up because we've had whole other skill sets to learn, like mastering picture book reading and singing via Facebook Live & setting up thematic Google Classroom virtual platforms. Our story times and other programming is all virtual, but our DIY craft kits to go are monster hits. It takes a lot more time to assemble monthly craft kits for 50 than it did to do an hour-long library program for half that number. We are still finding/fetching books for people; it's just about 50/50, in person vs. curbside delivery and some of our patrons enjoy the convenience of curbside pickup just a tad too much. That will be permanent and and I have a feeling that some of them are never coming back inside. Why should they, when we've made it so easy to stay in the car and get all their needs delivered to them? We should start up a pizza business while we're at it as a fund-raiser. I would have pegged the reference librarians for being the diehard Star Trek fans since the hardcore sci-fi fanatics seem to congregate there. It's not that the children's librarians have more time, definitely not. I find the reference librarians tend to have quite rigidly codified duties and schedules to the point where they know exactly when they are eating their lunch every day from now til retirement. If I have to hazard a guess, I'd say that children's librarians are drawn to the profession and to chatrooms because we view reading as a means to adventures of the imagination, and we learn to view fictional characters as friends. So chatrooms devoted to our favorite book characters will attract those characters' fans. As a group, I'd say the reference librarians also read a lot, but they are not reading for imaginative escape so much as for *information/facts*. One guy I know who worked in reference for years is a die-hard George R.R. Martin fan and theatre nerd . .but I don't think he is *really* a reference type; he just needed a job. I had a past colleague (she lasted for two years) who was so introverted/afraid of the patrons and their demands that she'd move her chair as far away from the desk as she could get it while still being in the designated area and, for want of a better description, do her best to pretend that she was invisible. She'd curl herself into a ball in the chair and pointedly ignore people while reading a book. Not great customer service. We thought she was just terribly unfriendly and hated children, but she confessed later (after she'd left) that she suffered from crippling social anxiety and was actually terrified that she'd be asked something she didn't know. She had a degree in elementary education and interviewed really well, but she just couldn't sustain the daily grind. I tend to be introverted too, but to a large degree I have had to get over it, or at least fake being over it to do any sort of employment, really. There is a supreme irony in the fact that so many librarians are introverts and yet are expected to be the fount of all knowledge and lead tour groups or do press interviews at the drop of a hat, sometimes with zero warning. For several hours each day, we have to project being 'on'--outgoing, helpful, there to serve, and camera-ready as required. Our Facebook Live story times go out to audiences of hundreds, sometimes thousands--Live!--If you find out later you had something in your teeth the whole time, you can't do anything about it. My journey from hard-core introvert to Less So, Outgoing on Occasion, has been basically learning to live with embarrassment. You WILL screw up, that's inevitable. The trick is to stop caring (much). Nobody but you is likely to remember any screwups the next day. As Artemis pointed out, our top questions are not brain trust material. Where's the bathroom? was leading, pre-pandemic. Now the top contenders are: Do you have a FAX? Are you open? and Do you have tax forms? A reference librarian friend of mine said ruefully that she'd spent $20,000 on her masters' degree in library science and what she does with it mostly is help homeless guys get on the computer. Yep, that's pretty much it. And sign people up for the mobile hotspots. And pass out tax forms. Someone queried on the next page I think, what makes people gravitate to this career? For me it was an entirely lateral move. I was an unemployed English teacher and I needed a job with benefits that was not retail. There are transferrable skills. I love books . . I just never thought that this would end up being my career. It was going to be a way station. I had a 5-year plan. But in any given year there are still a glut of English graduates for available jobs and so, here I still am. In my 21st year I have to admit that for better or worse, this IS my career.
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  4. I don’t know what Ohio is like, but that’s just another Wednesday in Minnesota.
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  5. My memory is so bad, I can't exactly remember any of the 'fake reviews'. I am not a Johnlocker and although I think most of them were in that vein...they were actually quite clever and genuinely hilarious. Oh I think they were taken down...I will ask in the other place!
    1 point
  6. Oh, goodness, those were hilarious! Artemis, what Bev's talking about is that Amazon put up a page allowing people to pre-order the DVD for an upcoming series. Nobody had actually seen the episodes of course, but that didn't stop some people from reviewing them. Dunno whether they're still there or not -- considering that there are thousands of subsequent actual reviews, I can't think of any reasonable way to get at them. But in answer to you, Bev, I didn't write any of those. Don't need to shop for those, already got more than enough!
    1 point
  7. I was skimming this rather than actually reading, and what I thought I saw was "shopping for organ villain extra"......
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  8. I was watching "X-Men: First Class" the other day, and I had a passing thought that Beast resembled a blue Grinch. So apparently my brain took that and ran with it, lol. Last night I dreamt that the Grinch found out he was a mutant, and he was running around wreaking havoc in Xavier's school: playing pranks, boasting about his super strength, and challenging people who didn't like him to competitions, lol. And he doesn't even really have super strength; he was just imbued with it that one time because of adrenaline. But that didn't stop him from bragging about his heroic feat and embellishing the story like a tale-telling old fisherman at a small-town bar, lol.
    1 point
  9. "So excited for this leaked scene from the upcoming 'Loki' show on Disney+" [Link]
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  10. Ah -- I've seen that kind of parent as well, I think, sort of Victorian. From the family stories I've heard, the parents were raised that way themselves, and even though they still hold a grudge against their (now-deceased) parents on that account, they seem to know no other way to interact with their own (now-adult) children. Sad, really, especially in the case of one "child" who takes it all too much to heart. Cutting them out might not solve the problem either -- you've been dealing with them long enough that you've probably internalized their attitude to some extent. You might -- seriously -- consider getting advice from a counselor. I think most cities/towns have some sort of human services clinic. I went to one of those years ago and talked with a social worker who was very helpful. She wasn't able to solve my problem of course, but she taught me how to cope. And just being able to tell someone was comforting.
    1 point
  11. Hello, Ioan Baicu -- welcome to Sherlock Forum! That's ia good question. Just offhand, I don't know of any other Romanians on the forum, but then again, there are a lot of people who mostly read and rarely post anything. Although members are not permitted to advertise their wares here, we can definitely discuss our interests! How did you first encounter Sherlock Holmes -- and was he speaking English or Romanian at the time?
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  12. I've gotten so spoiled by emails! I can write them whenever is convenient for me. I can take my time thinking how to word them. And if I get a reply, I can read it whenever is convenient for me. And so forth. Unfortunately, several people that I'd like to stay in touch with seem to be stuck in the 20th century. Even though they own computers, they persist in phoning or (heaven forbid!) writing letters. One friend in Japan writes, meaning that in order to reply I have to make a trip into town, to the post office, to buy whatever type of stamp is currently needed. She did say in her recent Christmas card that her computer was in the shop, so I guess I'll forgive her this time!
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  14. Yeah. Damn phone calls. And the other thing too.
    1 point
  15. Yes, I keep imaging something akin to the bra burnings, of the old womens' libbers! 🙃
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  17. If I see 'Sherl' one more time... I swear I will not be held responsible for my actions!
    1 point
  18. Sorry for laughing Carol, I see your point and it would annoy me as well but that bicycle story is pretty funny!
    1 point
  19. The old saying is that the UK and the US are two countries divided by a common language.
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  20. I see the resemblance, yeah. One day the sink in the little kitchen on my floor of the dorm was an utter mess, heaped with dirty dishes. and someone had tacked up a paper towel above it, with a hand-drawn "reaction" face. Some years later I saw "The Scream (for the first time, as far as I was aware), and immediately knew what that towel face had been based on. Oh, 'nother neat thing -- every so often Sky and Telescope magazine has nifty detective-type articles where they track down the background of something. They did one on "The Scream" [here] and it turns out -- well, just follow that link.
    1 point
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