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lizakova is shinying up her life.
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 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject: I take it back |
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| Apparently not all librarians are evil bitches who hate humanity. The guy in Hayden right now was very helpful and even walked down to the basement with me to find a book. |
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jaster is back in black
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:00 am Post subject: Re: I take it back |
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| lizakova wrote: | | Apparently not all librarians are evil bitches who hate humanity. The guy in Hayden right now was very helpful and even walked down to the basement with me to find a book. |
Um... I don't mean to get all technical... but didn't you know at least one librarian who wasn't an evil bitch who hates humanity before tonight?
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lizakova is shinying up her life.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:08 am Post subject: Re: I take it back |
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| jaster wrote: | | lizakova wrote: | | Apparently not all librarians are evil bitches who hate humanity. The guy in Hayden right now was very helpful and even walked down to the basement with me to find a book. |
Um... I don't mean to get all technical... but didn't you know at least one librarian who wasn't an evil bitch who hates humanity before tonight? |
More of a librarian in training. And I have no idea how he treats the patrons of his library. |
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jaster is back in black
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:14 am Post subject: |
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...touché
...and touché
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:46 am Post subject: Re: I take it back |
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| lizakova wrote: | | And I have no idea how he treats the patrons of his library. |
I was handed a list of citations with titles in Cyrillic, transliterated them, found the journals and books, and brought them to an old Russian guy (who doesn't speak much if any English) who I then taught to use a scanner.
Did Hayden guy transliterate anything during this process? |
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lizakova is shinying up her life.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:55 am Post subject: Re: I take it back |
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| mchicken wrote: | | lizakova wrote: | | And I have no idea how he treats the patrons of his library. |
I was handed a list of citations with titles in Cyrillic, transliterated them, found the journals and books, and brought them to an old Russian guy (who doesn't speak much if any English) who I then taught to use a scanner.
Did Hayden guy transliterate anything during this process? |
He did not. Maybe I should take back my apology to librarians. |
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:33 am Post subject: Re: I take it back |
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| lizakova wrote: | | He did not. Maybe I should take back my apology to librarians. |
Actually what you should have done, just to mess with them, was gone in, with a list of Cyrillic titles, and pretend not to speak English. Then see what happens.
My guess is they would call the police. Because MIT hates its students. Unlike Harvard. |
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