Libraries, Librarians, Building Hatred and Snow

If there is one thing I have an ever increasing and intense hatred of it is Libraries. At the same time if there is one profession that I despise above all else it is Librarians. You have to be a really strange type of person to get any job satisfaction out of working in a Library, but some of these people manage it. Whether they get their kicks from a new delivery of books, the pain they can inflict on poor Library users or the rush of excitement that comes from collecting overdue fines, they somehow manage it. The main thing that I dislike about Portsmouth University Library is the complicated system that involves renewals and fines. I had 3 books due in for 1.30 yesterday; I was able to renew one but not the other 2, no apparent reason, £2.70 fine this morning. B*****ds! Having had a 5 minute conversation with a woman behind the desk, who possessed all the charisma of a carrot-stick I gave up trying to find out why I hadn't been able to renew them and sloped off with a pile of books that I hadn't asked her to renew, how on earth does that work? Another observation of Libraries/ Librarians is the rather unhealthy relationship the staff seems to have with books. Now I appreciate a good or useful book as much as the next guy, but it wouldn't surprise me to see this lot campaigning for equal marriage rights for books and humans so that they can confirm their love by taking the relationship to a new level!

I have come to the conclusion that I will never be able to fully understand Librarians, will never like Libraries, but must get on with using them rather than paying about £400 a week for books which appears to be the alternative...

Snow. One word with the power to excite the nations kids and ground the entire country to a shameful and shambolic halt. Snow has come earlier than normal this year and so far Scotland, the North and a growing section of The South-East has come to a shocking-standstill as people fail to make work or school because of a bit of frozen water. What this proves isn't that "THE BIG FREEZE" has started like the BBC would have us believe, but that we are a nation of lazy skivers who jump at any excuse to do naff-all instead of going to work or school, but what can you do? I'll probably still be staring hopefully at the BBC Portsmouth website when our snow-fall gets heavier in hope the University is shut because I can mix it with the best where laziness is concerned!