It's been a year since resigning from the library. It nearly took me that long to get it to stick that I resigned and didn't quit. It may not have been pretty or what is deemed "professional", but I'm better for it. I miss the library, but I don't miss how working at the library made me feel. I think of program ideas and different ways of serving library members all the time. Testing TikTok hacks. Tutorials on Kindle Direct Publishing. Resume Writing in a Gig Economy. I don't know when I will stop mentally formulating potential library programs. Maybe it will come to some use later. Who knows. But there is still apparent hurt there. I nearly had a panic attack voting because it was at a local library. I couldn't brave my old library which is much closer. I'm embarrassed I didn't leave more on my terms. My co-workers deserved that. But sometimes what is needed can't be done the "right way". I still feel guilty, leaving my co-wor...
Ramblings of a Black trans dude obsessed with books, space and trees.