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August 06, 2009 |
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My Notice
FOUND by Andrea
in College Station, TX
I work in the library on campus, and found this when browsing through some of the files on the computer while bored. Rock on, AM.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Ohhh, Snap!!
I can only hope that Lydia was hoping for a raise or promotion. AM needs to be kept on the payroll or funded!
hmm... is this library specialist a 10 year old...
Librarian??
Oh, that's adult..."Lydia did this, so I can go one better" (or worse). "I'm resigning my position"--translation: "I quit! I'm mad now, so I'm going to take my ball and go home, and spoil the game for everyone."
Or words to that effect.
High drama in the back stacks.
that's brilliant. i try to use microsoft paint for as many things as possible. this is gold!
As of August 6th, I will be moving to Australia to pursue my dream of owning a monkey-wash business.
Do you think people would pay $30 for a medium wipe?
JIM (A.K.A. AM)
Oh you Aggies! Another clue about our contributor librarian Harangh, once employed at Texas A&M.
AM and Lydia voluntarily resigned after overhearing the administrator whisper in the archive stacks to the new and very dull librarian that they would be fired for painting and coloring in an entire collection of Aubrey Beardsley drawings in protest of the administrator's budget slashing of art book acquisitions.
Hereabouts we're getting furloughed, laid off, and fired. Nobody's had a chance recently to resign. So I don't have any direct expereince with this.
But I'm thinking now that my area of specialty might require me to use some Olde English font, or to get someone with calligraphy skills to pen such a letter for me.
I would have guessed that Lydia and "AM" were children's librarians except that this was Found at ... oh, wait, "College Station" ... that means this was Found at Texas A&M! That explains it!
(Heard any good Aggie jokes recently? There's always this: She resigned her position as Library Specialist I at A&M because she allowed both of the library's books to be kept out overdue at the same time ... and the Dean was thereby prevented from coloring in one of them.)
that would take a lot of work to write that all out in Paint.... you rock, AM. I wouldnt accept (or except? grrr) your letter.
I think both of today's "finds" are made up.
@Cynical - I'm with you - they can take this note and wipe their monkey with it.
Ugh. So wrong. Does the author of the resignation not know that one can use text in Paint?
cynical found police on patrol. go get 'em!
these finds are what they are. something for me to build thoughts around. to laugh at. who would make this boring stuff up? wouldn't they make the name more legible. the story more exciting or dramatic? and the other find today, come on, have you met any australians?
i think "am" is resigning in support of lydia, not to one up her. but we should get the handwriting analyst to figure out why lydia is the only word in cursive.
this speaks volumes. what odd work related stress could cause some poor library specialist to hand in a note that is so immature and catty it preempts any hope of a reference coming from this job
i accept the fact that the monkey wash was probably a lovely dadaist prank, but this...
it's such a weird way to resign that no one could do it without trying to seriously make a point
good luck AM wherever you may be!
So Found Powers, how come you didn't post this yesterday? I like when you post Finds that match the current date. Close enough I guess.
Why is the word "that" so neat and tidy?
Well, being that this was actually found as a file on the computer I'm thinking that "AM" didn't really resign and didn't really hand in this note. She was obviously just letting off some steam and making fun of Lydia who actually went through with writing a note in crayon.
Not to be dull, but I think I have a reasonable theory. I see AM and Lydia as two workstudy college students - forced to do some sort of heinous, temporary library related assignment during the summer term at A&M - I see hours spent cataloging, purging, converting to digitalization, etc. When August comes around, they band together to get new assignments, and their equally disinterested supervisor informs them, "You have to resign in writing so I can put it in your file."
@ Michigan kid : my regrets but that was dull. took most of the fun out of it actually.
although despite the origin of the note...whether michigan kid is right or its something else...I admire AM's pluck.
I think lydia being in cursive gives it emphasis...adds a bit of a sneer to it.
Obviously not a great librarian, considering the bad grammar. "P.S." is supposed to be AFTER the signature.
This says alot of this person..all rainbow colors for yourself and Lydia in all black...there is a meaning behind this.
@ Rob ... not "librarian" but "Library specialist I" ... two completely different jobs. The first requires that you have a master's degree; the second requires that you be alive.
The handwriting is pretty clean for paint, I'm guessing somebody had a mouse to work with...
Aw snap! I want the job then Librarian! I've got a pulse and I desperately want to resign from a job with a ransom note. That's my idea of a one-up from MSpaint.
I think this is absoloute genious.