Librarianniversary
Dec. 12th, 2016 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starfishstarToday's the one-year anniversary of when I started at the school library where I now work, and my colleague the Awesome Librarian gave me a present: temporary "literary tattoos" of Sherlock Holmes quotes. Because he's awesome.
He said it was actually a goofy impulse buy, because he and his wife were recently at the local bookstore, running around and buying lots of little presents for people they know, behaving like kids in a candy store, except, you know, with books and bookish things (how to spot a librarian...) And he wasn't sure when he should give my present to me – until I mentioned that today was the anniversary of my start date, and he decided that between that, and it also being about halfway between the time of Krampus (he just discovered this German/Austrian/etc. demonic "bad cop" counterpart to jolly old St. Nick and is kind of obsessed with the whole idea) and then Chanukah coming up in late December this year... So he printed off a little greeting card showing Krampus stuffing terrified children into a basket, and gave me the Sherlock Holmes temporary literary tattoos tucked inside that. :-)
He said it was actually a goofy impulse buy, because he and his wife were recently at the local bookstore, running around and buying lots of little presents for people they know, behaving like kids in a candy store, except, you know, with books and bookish things (how to spot a librarian...) And he wasn't sure when he should give my present to me – until I mentioned that today was the anniversary of my start date, and he decided that between that, and it also being about halfway between the time of Krampus (he just discovered this German/Austrian/etc. demonic "bad cop" counterpart to jolly old St. Nick and is kind of obsessed with the whole idea) and then Chanukah coming up in late December this year... So he printed off a little greeting card showing Krampus stuffing terrified children into a basket, and gave me the Sherlock Holmes temporary literary tattoos tucked inside that. :-)
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Date: 2016-12-21 08:08 pm (UTC)