#cabell library

[cheekyprince]

Greatest thing I've done for a light girl is switch computers with her

random guy at the library

[grantairezee]

someone left an evangelism tract on the fandom toilet paper holder. They read it and were literally like "yall motherfuckers need Jesus."

[katextravaganza]

Dear VCU Libraries,

I hope you understand I say this through choked up tears:  I know you mean well, or at least the humans in charge of the system do, but you are every anxiety-ridden student's nightmare. You have perhaps one of the most ineffective search engines I have ever used, and I wonder what sick form of mathematics went into the configuration that designed the search engine to pull up the most unrelated sources one could possibly find. For the love of all things holy, pure, kind, and/or gracious, please please please do something about this. I am sure this plea is too crass to be met with a kind and nurturing response, but I wish you could understand what a pain in the beautiful behind it is to write research papers, and that this hurt has been transmuted into anger, which is not meant to offend or inflict pain. I remember the system was drastically changed just one year ago or so, and I'm sure this was costly. I do not know what kind of system it was like before the change, but I know I am not the only one who uses google as a last minute plea for help, and copy/paste the results into VCU libraries search only to realize that they are not after all covered in the breadth of documents available to students. I wish I knew why VCU Libraries Search was so ineffective so that I could provide a more pointed complaint, however programming/systems design/database information search software is not my specialty. 

Sincerely,

a very desperate/angry/sad VCU sophomore

[katextravaganza]

Dear guy who was in front of the library who was actually talking to a friend,

sorry I got saucy with you. I thought you were talking to me from behind, which I thought was rude since we passed each other and you could have told me the library was closed when we could have made eye-contact. Turns out you were talking to your friend, and I didn't realize it until I had already started talking. Thanks for being a good sport, and really, thanks for telling me the library was closed even though you were telling your friend. Oddly, that kind of made my day (which is actually why I'm writing an open tumblr letter).

Sincerely,

that person who said "Obviously not since I'm walking towards the library, but thanks for telling me anyways" to answer the question directed at your friend

:}

[viennesetrainspotter]

i love the man sitting diagonally from me at the library.  he is singing from sheet music and talking to himself about how the music he is singing is like a stir fry with chicken when he'd prefer beef or shrimp.  brilliant man.

[katextravaganza]

oh man I feel so sorry for all the people passing me in the library looking for a place to work, because I'll just be scrollin' on tumblr when they walk by. I was working, I swear folks, I just can only take so much bad writing at a time.

[the-nicers]

the library is a wonderful place