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yesterday's full moon
Mar. 15th, 2006 06:22 pmI'm generally a skeptic about all things supernatural and odd, but there are times I lean towards being more open to believing. Such as the day of a full moon. I can't recall the number of times where people have just been acting strange at the library, and that the air had a certain charge to it, and I found myself realizing that it was indeed a full moon. Yesterday was a classic example. I was feeling exasperated by certain aspects of my job, and the patrons were driving me nuts.
The first question that threatened to push me over the edge, was that of a patron who was basically trying to use the skills of his local public librarian, to locate Atlantis. I kid you not, with a straight face he asked me to find him a map from 1500 BC showing an island in the MediterraneanSea, called Mediterranean. When I found him an admittedly lame map in a book on "the ancient world" of said Sea, he pointed to an unmarked island and asked me to find him a detailed map of it, from 1500 BC, as it must be the one he was looking for. I sincerely believe this fellow thought that if he looked at a map from that time, and compared it to a contemporary one, he would find the missing city of Atlantis, that no one else had been able to find in all these years. Happily, a co-worker came over and told me all the resources she had spent an hour the previous week trying, so I was not forced to replicate the task, and was amazingly able to order him a couple of books about The Truth About Atlantis that satisfied him for the time being.
The question that made me realize it was a full moon, was from a woman who wanted a book on ghost hunting in American battlefields, and was dismayed when I told her it wasn't in BIP, and that the only mention of it anywhere was on the author's own page, and therefore it was being self published and did not have an exact date of availability yet. She was shocked by this news, as she had clearly heard on the radio that it would be in bookstores in May. I for one am troubled by AM radio shows and the wide eyed desire to believe everything on them by their audiences.
Happily my weirdness stopped there. Today I was glad things went back to normal, and I was asked to find watercolor videos for old ladies and the Satanic Bible for sweet teens again.
The first question that threatened to push me over the edge, was that of a patron who was basically trying to use the skills of his local public librarian, to locate Atlantis. I kid you not, with a straight face he asked me to find him a map from 1500 BC showing an island in the MediterraneanSea, called Mediterranean. When I found him an admittedly lame map in a book on "the ancient world" of said Sea, he pointed to an unmarked island and asked me to find him a detailed map of it, from 1500 BC, as it must be the one he was looking for. I sincerely believe this fellow thought that if he looked at a map from that time, and compared it to a contemporary one, he would find the missing city of Atlantis, that no one else had been able to find in all these years. Happily, a co-worker came over and told me all the resources she had spent an hour the previous week trying, so I was not forced to replicate the task, and was amazingly able to order him a couple of books about The Truth About Atlantis that satisfied him for the time being.
The question that made me realize it was a full moon, was from a woman who wanted a book on ghost hunting in American battlefields, and was dismayed when I told her it wasn't in BIP, and that the only mention of it anywhere was on the author's own page, and therefore it was being self published and did not have an exact date of availability yet. She was shocked by this news, as she had clearly heard on the radio that it would be in bookstores in May. I for one am troubled by AM radio shows and the wide eyed desire to believe everything on them by their audiences.
Happily my weirdness stopped there. Today I was glad things went back to normal, and I was asked to find watercolor videos for old ladies and the Satanic Bible for sweet teens again.
