Snippy

With the increased pace of being, I've noticed I've gotten a little bit snippy. Hopefully that hasn't been reflected in answering questions at the reference desk. Nothing worse than a snippy librarian interacting with the public.

There also hasn't been much room for subtlety. In some interactions, I find myself just disgorging information--really, as if I'm vomitting it up. "I can't take the time to formulate a careful, well reasoned answer, so I'm just going to assume you know nothing and spit out the whole explanation without context, metaphor, stopping to see if you're getting it."

Boy, I really hope it didn't come out that way during certain very important career discussions I've had recently.

I'm horribly tired of the campaigns. One advantage for having voted Green, Socialist, and Farm Labor in the last 3 elections is that I was able to wash my hands of the process each time. Now, I see things that can do real damage to real people (who knows where Shrub will invade next) and the level of discourse falling to downright hatefulness (if we let them gays get married, we'll have to demonstrate butt sex in schools).

Oh, and the MoveOn 'Do you feel a draft' ad in campus newspapers this week is just pitiful scare mongering. Which side is complaining about a politics of fear?

I guess we're just not allowed to talk about issues during the last month.

So I guess the conclusion is that if nobody else is being subtle or issuing well crafted arguments recently, why should I?

(Shout outs to boingboing.net this past week for distracting me. I'd make a linky blog, but really--they're saying it all for me.)