Friday Fiction: Read All the Time

Conversation in my office this past Monday:

Patrick: Good morning.

Jenni: Hi, how was the [ACRL] conference?

Patrick: Good. No Friday Fiction I see…

Jenni: What?

Patrick: You didn’t post a Friday Fiction piece on the blog last week.

Jenni: Sure I did. I had already posted it when you e-mailed me about whether it would appear.

Patrick: That was the week before last.

Jenni, staring blankly: Oh. Um. Huh. You’re right. I’ve lost an entire week.

So, in the spirit of the hectic life of the librarian (or the library publishing editor), here’s another piece from Jennie Inglis that just about sums it up!

Read All the Time

“Oh, my gosh,” she said. “I have to be on the Reference Desk in five minutes but my monthly report isn’t finished.” The committee meeting was that afternoon; the SACS report was due that night, as well as the revised vision statement. Later, when a patron said, “I wish I was a librarian so I could read all the time,” she turned away, her fists clenched.

An introduction to our Friday Fiction Series and Jennie’s bio can be found on our first Friday Fiction post.