I'm only working half a day today. I took this afternoon off to take the cat to the vet. My appointment's for 2:20, and since it's a 20 minute or so drive home, then a thirty minute drive to the vet's, I decided the heck with it and took four hours vacation.

I've been getting slammed lately with Russian Spam Bot friending, and it's really irritating the shit out of me. I've reported every one. If there's one thing that really makes Dreamwidth look attractive, it's the absence of those damned spam bots.

Yesterday at lunch time, I decided I wanted to just go someplace quiet to read my book. Since it was too cool to go over to the nearby college quad and sit in their little ivy-covered sitting area, I trotted across the street to the library.

The library has a seating cluster - couch & chairs encircling a coffee table - in the lobby near the fiction section, but when I got there a rather skeezy looking man was sitting there so I bypassed it and headed to the back of the library by the non-fiction section where they have tables and chairs set up. I found a nicely isolated table and sat down, opened by book and started to read, only to keep being distracted by the ungodly buzzing of a dying florescence light bulb. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't ignore it, so with a sigh I closed my book and decided to move to the periodicals section which also has table and chairs.

I noticed, however, that the skeezy-looking guy was gone from the sitting area, so I happily plopped down on one of the chairs, opened my book, and began to read. An old lady took the seat across from me. I glanced up, gave her a small smile and returned to my book. Have you ever been in the movie theater and had people sitting behind you who rustled candy wrappers through the entire damned movie? Irritating, right? Well, my little old lady had books in a plastic bag, and she began to pull books out, put them back, pull books out, put them back. Rustle, rustle rustle. sigh Finally she found a book that suited her, and she settled down. Ah, peace.

Of course, that's when the schizophrenic woman that likes to hang out in the periodicals section began to have a conversation with Invisi!Kelly in the seat across from her. She was giving poor Kelly-who-wasn't-there quite the tongue-lashing. A loud tongue-lashing. *weeps*

She settled down a bit, and then someone in the juvenile section started up one the kid's computer programs with voices and sound effects: beep, bop, boop!. And then I heard the dinging of what sounded like a cooking timer. I don't think anyone was actually cooking in the library so maybe it was just signaling THAT MY PATIENCE HAD RUN OUT!!!!!

Not a good day at the library. :-(

And then today I heard on WVNPR that the entire state is under a flood watch. That's always fun.

x-posted: dw, lj, ij