Library [09/05]

[furnaceface]

After last week's busy shift in the library, and a particularly active week besides, Jono was very much not in a state of mind to go above and beyond the call for the job, today. He was here, and he was attempting to shelve things when he saw things that needed to be shelved, and now and again he'd pick up a rag and try to dust.

But, well, he never got too far in any one task, because there were some very industrious helping hands hanging around, grabbing books and rags and anything else that he could get into before he could get into very much at all. And then patting him on the shoulder or the head or the ankle, wherever a disembodied hand happened to be able to reach from their particular vantage point, and pointing back toward the desk.

He would have decided that they were being condescending, if not for the fact that he was fairly inclined to just sit and do a whole lot of nothing in particular today anyhow.

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Mod Your Library!

[furnaceface]

If you don't want to disturb the aide, at least there are Things that want to help, instead.

Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

He's all but given up on getting any work of his own done today, and so he's settled in with a terrible book to read. The kind of book that you hide inside of another, less stupid looking book while you flip through it in public, so that people don't ask questions.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[thinkbetterofme.livejournal.com]

Faramir returned to the library early that morning. He had a few sheets of paper with him, covered in English words with a Sindarin equivalent beside them.

"Good morning, Jonothon," he greeted when he found the library aide.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//Faramir.// Jono was all too happy to close his book-in-a-book and put it down for the time being, yes. Especially if doing so meant that he'd actually get to to something resembling work without those creepy little hands taking over from there. //How are those lessons working out for you, mate?//

Re: Talk to Jono!

[thinkbetterofme.livejournal.com]

"Slower than I would like," Faramir admitted with a crooked smile, "but they are helping. I will have to be patient."

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//Well, if there's anything that yer having difficulties with, let me know. We have some... ridiculous spelling habits, I'll admit.//

There, their, and they're, anybody? Its and it's? And how red and read rhymed, except for when they didn't?

//Honestly, I think we complicate things just to prove that we can, sometimes.//

Re: Talk to Jono!

[thinkbetterofme.livejournal.com]

"It should never be too easy, that would defeat the challenge," Faramir reasoned. "I was actually hoping you would have a moment to help me. There are more than a few words which I don't understand."

Re: Talk to Jono!

[3patchproblem.livejournal.com]

Because 'please don't poke at this, Sherlock' apperently meant 'LOOK AT THIS! LOOOOK AT IIIIIT' to the man, Sherlock was once more int he library on Jono's day.

"I've been warned not to talk to you." Oh, don't sound so amused, Sherlock.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

And now Jono was slinking down behind the desk a little. As if that would save him from the terror that was Sherlock Holmes.

//I can tell already that yer taking that warning seriously,// he observed.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[3patchproblem.livejournal.com]

"As seriously as I always take warnings." Which is to say he completely ignored it. "So, are you really so fragile that you need the librarian to defend you?"

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//Not... really.//

Maybe. A little. But it wasn't as though he'd asked Henry to step up to defend him!

... He was also not complaining, mind.

//It had been a bad week.//

Understatement ahoy!

Re: Talk to Jono!

[trigons_child]

Raven came by in the afternoon, after returning from Oklahoma. "Hello, Jono," she said pleasantly. "How are you today?"

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

There were probably not words to describe just how thankful Jono was to see somebody in on his shift who was not only familiar, but also sane. So thank you, Raven, from the bottom of Jono's bio-nuclear psionic flaming lack of a heart, for not being Holmes.

//I can think of worse days offhand,// he noted, nodding up at her. //I think today, I'll settle for 'lazy,' if I can get away with it at all. Yerself?//

Re: Talk to Jono!

[trigons_child]

Raven hadn't met Holmes yet. It probably wouldn't go well.

"I am...." Please forgive her, the disembodied hands had just caught her attention. She hadn't seen them yet due to being off island. "Hands," she said, doing a quick check to make sure Jono's were still attached and weren't the ones scurrying about.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

Jonothon's hands were, fortunately, there and accounted for. He even held them up and gave his fingers a wiggle to demonstrate.

//Not mine. Not anybody's, I don't think. Fandom being Fandom is my best guess thus far.//

One of the Things gave them a little thumbs-up before grabbing a bottle of Windex from behind the desk and skittering off to clean windows.

Talk To The Librarian!

[furnaceface]

When he pings in, of course.

OOC!

[furnaceface]

Earl hit us hard enough yesterday that there are maybe a couple of neighbourhoods in the whole HRM with power, and we're one of them. As a result, some extended family spent the night last night, but I should be about all day regardless, pinging while contemplating the half-a-tree that's sitting across the median in the road in front of our house.

HOW did Earl manage to hit us harder up here than it did down there? I ASK YOU.

Re: OOC!

[trigons_child]

Clearly, Earl hates Canada.

Re: OOC!

[furnaceface]

D: What did we ever do to Earl, omg?

Re: OOC!

[trigons_child]

Were you on his lawn?

He hates that!

Re: OOC!

[furnaceface]

I could swear that the North Atlantic was away from his property lines! If I'd known that he'd come running at us with his shotgun loaded, I would have paid closer attention to the barbed wire fences and discarded beer cans!

Re: OOC!

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

...God loves America? TRUE STORY.

Re: OOC!

[furnaceface]

But we are your hat! WHY DOES GOD NOT LOVE AMERICA'S HAT?

Re: OOC!

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

GOD LOVES BEARDS, AND AMERICA = CANADA'S BEARD.

Re: OOC!

[furnaceface]

... I LIKE YOUR LOGIC BEST.