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Jun. 5th, 2020 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glorious_spoonSo, I've been back to work this week. It's a little weird; we're keeping it at a skeleton staff, which means essentially that I'm there in the evenings with one other person in the entire building. Another piece of relevant data: my library is in a converted Victorian mansion, complete with a tower and a maze of a stone basement with three hidden rooms and a couple of doors blocked behind shelving that lead to nowhere in particular.
Basically, it's a little creepy in the evening if there's nobody else around. Or if the only other person around is two floors down and most of the lights in the hallway are out because the circuitry is also ancient and having too many things on at a time will blow the circuit and necessitate me wandering into the depths of the catacombs under the building to reset it if I happen to try to turn my window AC unit on. And there are a lot of strange odds and ends to be found in the attic and the basement and in random little closets and rooms.
All of which is to say that my boss found this fucking gigantic stuffed bear and stuck it in the window outside my office overlooking Main Street, and it has been giving me a heart attack every single time I walk down the hallway and catch sight of it out the corner of my eye. If it's still there on Monday, I'm going to leave it behind his desk for him to find in the morning.
Basically, it's a little creepy in the evening if there's nobody else around. Or if the only other person around is two floors down and most of the lights in the hallway are out because the circuitry is also ancient and having too many things on at a time will blow the circuit and necessitate me wandering into the depths of the catacombs under the building to reset it if I happen to try to turn my window AC unit on. And there are a lot of strange odds and ends to be found in the attic and the basement and in random little closets and rooms.
All of which is to say that my boss found this fucking gigantic stuffed bear and stuck it in the window outside my office overlooking Main Street, and it has been giving me a heart attack every single time I walk down the hallway and catch sight of it out the corner of my eye. If it's still there on Monday, I'm going to leave it behind his desk for him to find in the morning.
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Date: 2020-06-06 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-06 04:36 am (UTC)Like there's nothing objectively creepy about a stuffed bear, other than the fact that I keep seeing it out of the corner of my eye and thinking someone's there when I know there isn't.
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Date: 2020-06-06 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-06 04:38 am (UTC)So, yeah, it's going in his office if I find it there on Monday.
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Date: 2020-06-06 04:43 am (UTC)Give it a knife if you do that.
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Date: 2020-06-06 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-06 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-06 08:16 pm (UTC)cackles in delight
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Date: 2020-06-09 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-06 05:10 am (UTC)*slow clap for boss*
(I would be so creeped out by this)
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Date: 2020-06-09 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-08 06:38 pm (UTC)(Also, three hidden rooms??)
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Date: 2020-06-09 01:31 am (UTC)They're not really *hidden* rooms per se, but the building went up in the 1880's and has had substantial renovations and additions since then, all done kind of slipshod on grants and taxpayer budgets, so there are some... very weird construction choices leading to spaces that aren't technically *hidden* but are very hard to find and get to if you don't already know they're there because walls have been put up in odd places (so there's, for example, a closet door blocked off by wall-mounted bookshelves, or a hallway that leads to nowhere and is only accessible through the closet in my office).
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Date: 2020-06-09 02:18 am (UTC)(Are you sure it leads to nowhere? MAYBE THAT'S HOW THE BEAR GOT IN)no subject
Date: 2020-06-09 01:36 am (UTC)