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I knew it was coming, but it seems very strange that in three hours the library will be closing and not opening again until the spring. No more Crazy Homeless Guy! A whole new set of small cute kids! Commuting to Garner! Having different options for lunch than Subway and Burger King, huzzah. (New Year's resolution: more boxed lunches). And when I come back the library will be twice as large and maybe collection development will listen to me and we'll get some decent new books.

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Even though the situation at the library is, you know, 98% good, every once in a while I overhear something like "she doesn't like black people," and, yeah, that's not so much fun. (Apparently I'm racist when I get on teenagers' cases for being loud and obnoxious, and I'm racist when I don't. So.)

I would like to think that I am capable of being mature and sensible.

But there's nothing like bringing in Celtic Christmas music* to work to make me think, "I am so white, vampires will be going to me for makeup tips."

Also, the Sufjan Stevens Christmas CD is good.

*Nobody around is likely to be more bothered about separation of church and state than I am, so I'm basically content to let it drop and join in with the Christmas music.