#the layout

"I'm not sure why it fell to me to do the traveling. Maybe because I don't mind traveling so much and maybe because I very quickly developed a certain instinct for the books, a feel for the paper, an eye for the quality of the printing, for a well-crafted binding. I don't know what it is, but it's almost physical, like an inchworm testing whether a leaf is worth creeping across, or a bird listening to insects moving in the bark of a tree. It might be a detail: the sound when you flick through the pages, the feel of the lettering, the depth of the imprint, the saturation of the colors in an illustration, the precision of details in a plate, the hues of the edges, I don't know what it is that seals it for me, because even thought I generally know which works I'm interested in, usually I'm not absolutely sure whether I want to buy a book until I have it in my hand."

which, entirely out of the school? no, actually. a bit more hidden, yes. but it's like... idk what the fuck it is where she thinks it's HER responsibility to remind me of the instructions of a former principal? cause she was like "didn't the principal ask?" and I'm like... not the current one... but she rightly pointed out like oh the last one? but again, NOT remove it entirely, no. but she's basically catching me in a lie and she's a terrifying bitch to her STUDENTS so I'm like... I can't fucking admit to this so I'm so fucking screwed and I just tried to hold my ground?

but then she's like "oh I'm sorry if I was rude" and I'm just like...... genuinely what BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS THOUGH? tbh it doesn't even affect her like *I'M* the one risking the L of ANOTHER parent complaining to me about this book but I'm just like... I have a pride flag on my lanyard that was gifted to me from another librarian the FIRST time this shit occurred. I have pride flags on my cabinet. it's pride month. I'm out here fighting for just some goddamn respect and you're basically like "shouldn't you just censor this book entirely?"

which... I ended up having to tell her like, actually she did say just don't display it which I just grabbed it and threw it out to fill space on the shelf (minor lie but who cares), but NO, it was never meant to be culled from the collection which was the one silver lining and I told her straight up like I wouldn't want to cause it's censorship

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My brain: did you know you can't remember what the showers were like in your sophomore year of college? You can't remember taking a single shower? Here's a selection of bathroom layouts from your freshman, junior, and senior years, as well as layouts of random res halls you never actually lived in yourself. Why can't you remember the bathroom layout for sophomore year? You should probably map out every detail of the bathroom you remember. There was one sink and a mirror, a paper towel despenser, the toilet was in the far corner, in a stall--