The Library Visit

A remedial reading class was visiting the library today.
Student: Where are the good books?
I brought him over to the new book section because, frankly, those are the more interesting books, and most of them were bought with this class in mind.
Student: What is the easiest book to write a paper on?
Librarian: Probably a fiction book.
Librarian: Have you read Stephen King? He writes horror books.
Student: Well, I don't read books.
I gave him the Stephen King book, but it had a character that was a minister, and the student "didn't like God stuff".
Librarian: What are you interested in?
Student: I dunno.
Student: (picking up a book) This was a good movie.
Librarian: Well, if you liked the movie, maybe you should read the book.
He finally checked out the book, but looked highly dubious about the whole enterprise. This gave me a lot of sympathy for public librarians, who do this all the time!

Small Towns

My definition of "small town" keeps changing. Lincoln has roughly 15,000 residents, which is by far the smallest town that I've ever lived in. (The next smallest towns that I lived in were slightly over 100,000.) Today, I gave a presentation at a high school that has dual-enrollment college classes in a town of around 3000. The high school, middle, school, and grade school all were in the same building, but with separate entrances. On the way there, I drove through a pretty little village of around 300 residents. I guess Lincoln isn't really that small after all.

I saw a job ad for a librarian at Mount Holyoke College, which is in a small town in Massachusetts that is around the same size as Lincoln. Pretty town and a good school, but now is not a good time to change jobs and move, especially out of state. The job tempted me a little though.