Some of those titles may have been requested from other libraries in the same library system. My library limits me to, say, 20 books. But I can request another 20 from Second Library one town over, and another 15 from Third Library two towns over. The books all get sent to My Library and placed on the hold shelf for me, and checked out at My Library. Each library has their own lending policy.
Yeah, it's messed up. Grumble grumble rude butthead that would check out 80+ DVDs at a time and yell at you if you didn't check in his returns fast enough (so he could max out his checkouts again).
Yeah. I had to carefully word my dad's obituary to not gender me--I wasn't out yet, but it would have added more pain to the event if I'd been misgendered in it. Luckily, I have a sibling, so I able to rework the first draft from "survived by his son ___ and daughter ___" to be "survived by his children __ and __".
Anyways, if I had a kid I think I'd just go by my name, or any nickname they came up with. I called my binary parents by their names so it doesn't feel weird to me.
I think lots of libraries do that. It's awesome! (Source: my last 3 libraries in New England did that.)
Be sure to return the pass on time, though. You might screw up someone else's trip to the museum if you return it late :( (that's also why they tend to have higher late fees)
Lemmy, Sharkey, and YouTube for me. I'm on Facebook, but less than an hour a week. A friend posts a weekly "how's everyone doing?" post and I usually comment on that.
In theory once you stay at a dosage of metformin for long enough the unfortunate side effects go away. In practice it's been a year and I still can't trust a fart.
Thanks. It helps that I'm white enough I glow in the dark. My big worry is that many of my students might be first- and second-generation immigrants from south of the USA and I don't want them to have to deal with this bullshit.
(I say "might be" because I don't know anyone's immigration status and even if I did
no I don't.)
That's one thing my campus has done decently--I know that to do if ICE shows up.
they're not allowed to just walk in to non-public areas
we call campus police (whose main jobs seems to be keeping students safe and keeping campus out of the news).
Annoyingly, I work in a public building (the library) but my office is private, big, and has a lock on the door. I'm well stocked up in case of a shelter-in-place situation and I'm happy to wait until campus police shows up.
My brother ended up lost in a major city, 3 hours away from home and our parents. He didn't know where he parked his car, just that it was "at a hotel". Drugs were almost certainly involved.
His strategy was to wander around asking to borrow strangers' cell phones until he ended up in a gas station run by an immigrant couple who were OMG lovely. They let him use their phone and they fed him until my parents could drive over and pick him up.
My parents found his car by posting "lost car" ad on Craigslist with a reward.
Anyways, my strategy's probably to find a local library or equivalent and email my partner and friends a "please help" message. Hopefully someone lends/gives me clothes along the way.
Edit: oops, I said 3 miles. It was 3 hours. Updated.
Update: looks like the company really stuck their foot in it and now there's a "girlcott" (because the word "boycott" is banned on the Nikki subreddit).
TLDR: latest update has a too-expensive gacha outfit and retcons the intro in a way that doesn't make sense. Pissed fans.
Ugh, the public. Most folks are lovely. Some folks want to ruin my day. Guess which one spawn camps the newspaper rack and/or reference desk. (I'm glaring at you, Ms. "Coughs On Everything" and Sir "Let me tell you about my childhood trauma, also the teens are too loud, and no I won't sit further from the teen section while I make my video calls about how trans folk are liars")
The concussions probably don't help with decision-making skills. But, it looks like there are schemes/systems in place to try and minimize the risk of poor financial planning: pensions, 401ks, and other benefits. I think that's neat.
TBF, (American) football players risk increasing traumatic brain injuries and break their bodies to play the game. That compensation has to help them deal with the aftermath of that for the rest of their life.
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De minimus exemption is still dead, right?