Lord has it been a day ya’ll! (yes, you will see a southern accent on things from time to time, and I have no idea where it came from since I was raised in the city, accept that time in high school I lived on a farm for a week, another story.)

The day started off really nicely. Woke up, got to work, and I have to walk from my car to the door, and my walk is along a river. It is so calm and peaceful in the morning with nobody outside, and just listening to nature as I walk into work (the little things in life!)

So in my job, I have a dual role. I am BOTH a Childrens and Youth librarian and an Information Services librarian. Certain days I work a certain role some days its split. So today it was all day in CYS (the kids dept.) I love when I get a whole day in a single department, its nice to be able to focus a bit more. First half of the day went off without a hitch. Came home and had a nice lunch with my husband. Working less than a mile from work has its perks! It was after lunch…..

So I have a fan club at work. Its a group of people who are like obsessed with me…
and I can’t even handle it. I am not the only one. It seems to be a thing in libraries where certain people will only talk to certain librarians. Whatever. So we have this guy, I am going to call him John (as a librarian I will not reveal anyones information, but if they are crazy, I AM going to talk about em’!) John is an older man from Eastern Europe. He is OBSESSED with soccer (football) whatever you want to call it, don’t really care. And he is also crazy.

So John first talks soccer because another librarian is also into it. European soccer of course. John was a big name back in his home country back in the 70’s, even coaching some BIG names in the soccer world. He then came to the US to help start up a league here, and some how ended up in the Chicagoland area coaching colleges I think at some point. OK, so he asks me 900 million questions about soccer and me being GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I have zero fucking idea what he is talking about so I nod my head and smile and he just goes on and on. But that isn’t the best part. Once he got more comfortable with me, he started to tell me about his “beliefs,” and ya’ll…. I just can’t.

Let us start. First I was told that he was able to produce an orange in his hand by just thinking about it. Yep, he thought up an orange! He isn’t the only one who can do it though, did ya know? He brought in his “top secret” papers that someone smuggled him. The papers were from whack job websites saying crazy shit.

Next, he told me about the lost city of Atlantis, and how it just vanished! Alright, so in order to get to this, I need to say that he told me that the world will be over by 2050 because we will start a nuclear war. So, back to Aquaman. He told me that Atlantis had a rival tribe. And Atlantis and this other tribe were super advanced in tech and shit blah blah. So the rival tribe took a ship into space, and landed it on a comet. They then steered the comet to crash directly into Atlantis and that is how it sank!

The last bit off crazy he has come up with is about religion. Now. Religion is always a touchy subject no matter what the circumstances. He is now intent on telling me and anyone listening to him that we aren’t praying enough, and that is why all this bad stuff is happening. He also is obsessed with religious miracles. So he brings in these huge posters from gosh knows how long ago. They are in Italian, so of course I have no fucking idea what they say. But he wanted me to make copies of everything and wouldn’t let me not. So I went in the back and faked it for a few seconds….. and then the next day he brought in another poster…… and I had to do the same thing….. but today he sent me to another fucking level. . .

Now remind you, I am in the childrens department that is located in the basement. When John talks to me, we are upstairs in the adult services section. I am downstairs working on book ordering, and here comes this fuck walking his old ass down the stairs. I say out loud “I’M BUSY” hoping he would get the message and turn around, but no…so I went ahead and I immediatly text my co-worker (Please kill me.) He asked me to make a copy of 5 papers that were old news papers. So, it was dead….and I said fine. I go up, and actually make him a copy this time because he wanted it. Bring it all back down. He goes and does something, and comes back, and says, “You didn’t do it right.” And I am sitting there like, McScuse me bitch? So I look, and he is right, a line was cut off or something, and so I am like, fine John, I will do this one more time and thats it. And I go and do it, and come back, and he tried to talk to me, and I was so fucking over him, I cut him off and said, “John, I can’t talk anymore. I have work to do.” And he looked a bit taken and marched his little ass out of there. I am sorry. I can literally only handle it so much. And listen. I am not the only one he bothers. And you know what, he can talk to me all he wants I mostly zone out, so it doesn’t bother me at all. But I am somehow supposed to be the one who tells this guy to fuck off? No, I am not a manager yet, so I don’t think its my job.

I had to rant, because I am a people person. I normally get along with people really well. But sometimes people just take advantage of your kindness. I want to be able to have those boundries with people, but I don’t want to come off icy at the same time, ya know what I mean?
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On another note. Tomorrow is my co-workers 70th birthday and I always like to make people feel special, so you know I did something. I made him a Ginger Sheet Cake with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting. I also went and got him some balloons and a thing for his desk. I hope he likes it!

I hope you have had a great day, or are having a great day, whenever you decide to come upon this rant. Remember to be kind to yourself and others, and remember, You are AMAZING !

-Jordan