I am not a good librarian.

I'm back from ALA Annual in Chicago (American Library Association meeting - where thousands of librarians swoop in, learn stuff, get free books, and waddle home with swag in tow).

You know, I'm not a very good librarian.  I like books - I like organizing them.  I like putting them into their spots, and I like to catalog them with all the numbers and subject headings and fiddly bits.

But I don't like people enough to be a good librarian. I know we're supposed to be all for freedom of this and that, and access for everyone, and whatever.  And, I am.  Just not enough to really advocate for it.  Will I stand in the way of someone whose rights are being threatened?  I may furrow my brow and tut-tut, but will I actually move myself to help?  Probably not.

I like to read.  I don't like people.  I like to be alone, and to be left alone. 

Why can't jobs I'd probably be really good at be available to me?  For instance, I would make an excellent assassin. I sure like money more than I like people.  I'd get more money to buy books, and make fewer people to bother me while I read them! Sign me up!

I used to want to be a writer. But, it turns out you need to really understand people in order to write about them. My people in my stories are usually just varying forms of me. And that's not much fun for other people to read. It's being alone though, and that's very appealing. You do, pretty much, have to be left alone in order to write.

Would anyone like to train me to be an assassin?