As you may or may not know, I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time in the library, more than i do at home almost. (see last thread [thread]38336[/thread])

 

this time i decided to bring my own sandwich(i've been doing this for a few weeks now but i couldn't get a seat in my usual spot so i was forced into the political section). this has never beeen a problem before when i sit in my normal spot. i know the librarians in the engineering section have seen me munching away on my peanutbutter, bacon and sausage monstrosites before. but the ones down here seem to be taking it a tad too seriously.

 

in short. i've been chucked out. and am now taking refuge in a very distracting computer science lecture. nobody has noticed i don't fit in mainly because i have linux on my laptop. I feel sorry for the guys in this course. there are no girls here at all. total sausage fest. my only hope is that the next lecture in here is a biology one where there is usually a larger number of females.

 

UPDATE: it was empty, i was productive, another class came in and called my bluff and i got chucked out... again.

Edited March 24, 200916 yr by insane_alien

I would go back to the librarians who know and love you and ask politely if there is someplace else you could park your neat self down for a bite and a read. Maybe someone recently got sacked and there's a spare office....

you need something like an inflatable traffic cone to leave on your seat when your not there!

you need something like an inflatable traffic cone to leave on your seat when your not there!

 

Surely, a great way to win over the librarians.

this time i decided to bring my own sandwich(i've been doing this for a few weeks now but i couldn't get a seat in my usual spot so i was forced into the political section). this has never beeen a problem before when i sit in my normal spot. i know the librarians in the engineering section have seen me munching away on my peanutbutter, bacon and sausage monstrosites before. but the ones down here seem to be taking it a tad too seriously.

Perhaps something in your sandwich is either

• offensive to one of the senses librarians care most about
  
• too uber yummy and makes them jealous enough to banish you
  
• or there is something politically incorrect about peanut butter, sausage and bacon
  

 

I suggest you try cucumber and cream cheese. This seems like a choice no librarian would find objectionable, especially if you offer them a bite.

you need something like an inflatable traffic cone to leave on your seat when your not there!

 

i'm a student, i have 5 normal traffic cones in my cupboard. and a diverted traffic sign.

I suggest you try cucumber and cream cheese. This seems like a choice no librarian would find objectionable, especially if you offer them a bite.

Or peanut butter and banana. Elvis approved. Who's gonna disagree with the King?

My library has a cafe... so nerrrr.

peanut butter might have been the issue. Most institutions won't permit peanut butter on the premises.

 

However, food should be allowed in libraries and librarians shouldn't.

My library has a cafe... so nerrrr.

 

so does mine, if you read the thread linked to in the OP you'll find out how that turned out.

I see. I guess the advantage of being on a campus uni is that the food outlets are well... normal.

 

But my point was that there is space to eat, in the library. Of course if you want food+quiet then you're a bit screwed but otherwise there's usually enough chairs (or floorspace) and you don't need to check out books in order to read them whilst eating either food that you've brought there (which is overpriced, but is genuine food) or your own stuff.

 

Also a lot of the buildings have "quiet study rooms" which are brilliant because no-one knows about them, so no-one cares what you do in them - presumably within reason.

 

But yeah, there are certainly worse things that you could do in a library than eat a sandwich*.

 

*I have no idea why people think libraries are a good place to do those things.

more to the point there are worse things i HAVE done in the library. including camping on the 4th floor when i was wasted and couldn't find my way home.

 

it wasn't as if i was getting my grubby finders on any books(other than my notepad which nearly has as many stains as my labcoat.)

Surely, a great way to win over the librarians.

I Lol'd

including camping on the 4th floor when i was wasted and couldn't find my way home.

 

That must of been an incredibly large book, to prop up and double up as a tent.

 

I don't have the luxury of a Uni brick library (just an on-line library), as a place to go and study. However I do hope they don't serve Kettle Chips at your library food outlet, being the noisiest, tooth debilitating snack I've encountered so far.

i love those crisps but no, i don't eat those at the library, don't want to deafen everybody