Our library has a request/suggestion form thing, where you can fill out what books you’d like them to get, and they may or may not get them. I requested about a dozen books mixed between some Catholic books I’d like to read and some fat acceptance books I’d like to read. We went to the library today and the guy at the desk said there was a note on my account. He told me the books that they’d be getting and the ones that they were not going to be getting, from my recent requests. And then he said that they will not be getting any more Catholic books beyond what they just ordered, at all, because “they already have an extensive supply of them”.

Uh huh. I wasn’t aware that the 1/4 shelf of Catholic books, mostly biographies of past Popes, and two generic prayer books, is an “extensive supply”, particularly since the entire Christian LIVING section is two massive aisles. (And then there are the normal two aisles of actual reference/academic books and a few other religions mixed in.) The Wicca section is two shelves! (It just goes to show you that the Bible belt would accept a witch before a Catholic! haha!) I mean, surely if there are four shelves of Christianity, more than a 1/4 shelf of that could be Catholicism since it is the largest sect of Christianity. And, even if they don’t want more books than that, which is their decision and all, surely they can’t expect me to believe that this is an “extensive supply” by any means!

Perhaps, what they meant to say is that there are enough Christian books in general, so they won’t be getting more of a specific sect, but alas, the majority of the Purpose Driven Life or Prayer of Jabez crap books really don’t apply to Catholics (heck, nor should they apply to Protestants either). The thing is, they do actually have more books on specific Protestant denominations, such as Methodists or Baptists, than they do on Catholicism. There is ONE book on the Orthodox Church. A few of the academic books do, of course, mention Catholicism or Orthodox, but only in reference to the history of denominations or whatnot… nothing about them individually.

So, as a mature grown woman, I say to my library. They do so, so well in every other area, too. They’re actually one of the places I am happy about in Joplin, as they are very up-to-date in books, and very good with completing series or having varieties by different authors, not just popular ones– all problems I regularly dealt with when I lived in York– and that library was at least twice the size of this one (I do miss their wonderful children’s section though!)

And I should totally get a say in how things run at this library since I check out probably close to 200 books a year– just for me (like, I don’t have a family card, it’s all me!!)!!!! And totally have half of the shelves memorized, fiction and non! I’m a bit rusty on the Children’s section, but I’ve got the Teen one, and the Large Print sections completely under control!

P.S. If Christy happens to come across this post, these are the books I checked out of the library today:

The Cap: the price of a life — Roman Frister
Castles Burning: a child’s life in war — Magda Denes
The Mongol Reply — Benjamin Schutz
Par for the Course — Ray Blackston
The Pianist — Wladyslaw Szpilman (seriously, how have I never read this?)
Picture Perfect — Jodi Picoult
Poison — Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The Red Necklace: a story of the French Revolution — Rod Townley
Salem Falls — Jodi Picoult
Women of Magdalene — Rosemary Poole-Carter
You Know Where to Find Me — Rachel Cohn

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Last night I was going through my bazillion bookmarks, cleaning up and going to sites I haven’t been to in awhile. I also went to sites that I don’t go to at all anymore and deleted my accounts from them. Except, easier said than done. Why do websites make it so hard to delete your account? The ones that actually have that option are usually really, really hard to find. (Tiny print on some obscure part of the site.) Then some of them, if you email their contact page, they’ll delete your account for you, but with all the websites I’m a part of, that’s kind of annoying. But, then there’s the sites that really get to me. They refuse to delete your account, even if you email them. They tell you that if you wish to leave, just log out and never return.

Ugh. If that is what I wanted to do, I would have done that already! There is a reason I want to delete my account. I’m done with it. There’s a lot of stuff out there attached to me, since I’ve been using the internet since 1995– and that’s okay, I want that. Really, I don’t mind. But, we’re talking here about websites that I voluntarily signed up for; I should voluntarily be able to leave! It just irks me so badly that I don’t get control over that. I guess it’s a perfectionism thing, maybe, but I can’t handle it. Like I said, it’s not so much having my name floating around as it’s that if I created the account, I should be able to uncreate it.

I got in a battle with one site over this, suggesting perhaps that if they can’t remove my account (for example, I’ve contributed content to the site and they don’t want to remove the content as per the integrity of the site) fine, just make it impossible for me to log in again. (And they won’t do that either!) At least that will remove the ball from my court and put it into theirs, thereby placating my need to control the account, lol!

Am I the only one?

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I just want to take a moment to interrupt talking about the Deeper Still Conference to complain.

First, Old Navy took its plus size clothes out of the stores, and with the exception of some tops, fat girls are now relegated to online shopping. Particularly, they had some nice low-cut pants and jeans, that are hard to fine. Then, apparently, the shipping/return policy online is now harder, and online returns are being decreasingly taken back in stores.

Then, Wal-mart took its junior extended sizes– 17, 19, 21– and yes, kept them in the jeans, however, changed the jeans drastically this year. They are now all of the “skinny jean” variety, smaller, with supposed added “stretch”. In other words, they’re like trying to put on spandex tights. So, Wal-mart is out.

Lane Bryant and Fashion Bug are nice alternatives for those fat girls who have butts and hips. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. When I can button the bottoms, I have to wear them up to my chest so that 1. the crotch isn’t at my knees or 2. they don’t attempt to give me a butt– pretty persistant about forcing me into having one. “Ha, you don’t have one, I’ll give you one!” (Oh, and the breasts.. we won’t even talk about the breasts. I have a pretty decent rack, just so you all know, but dang, if I was to measure the size of my breasts against the size of the breasts in the clothing in my size, well, you’d think I was so flat that I was a teenage male.. board.)

Department stores are similar, but mostly worse. Or ya know, I could always wear the lovely mu mus they have disguised as clothing…

So, in the pants world, I have essentially been left with the Goody’s Junior Plus department. The department is super tiny, but the pants are actually somewhat low-cut. Granted, they’re not as low as I’d like them to be, but they’re workable. And guess what? Goody’s has apparently filed bankruptcy and they’re closing down their underperforming stores. And, wow, what a surprise, the Joplin branch is one of those and mine will be gone in the next few weeks.

Now what? Maurices is wonderful, except they don’t actually have much in the way of pants. So, now apparently I am officially forced to online shop. I’ve been trying it, by the way, and I’ve had some success but mostly in the tops area. Bottoms? HA! Yes, I take measurements, yes, I follow the size chart, yes, I even had other people measure me. Well, either I can’t measure, or they can’t or there is a mass conspiracy against me. (Ok, I’m not ruling that one out.)

The only thing left to do is just stop wearing pants! Yes! That is what I am SURE the world wants– a bunch of fatties running around without pants! But guess what? It’s going to happen! Bwah ha ha! I AM FREE! NO PANTS. TAKE ‘EM OFF!!!!

*ahem* Yes.

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