My Library Endorses Torture

So, we have a lighting problem in my branch of the PL.  We’ve only been open a year now (exactly a year this coming Saturday…happy birthday to us) and our lights have never been quite right.  This has something to do with the fact that the designer of the building decided to be all hip and trendy and not have any real lighting…just some lights thrown up on the poles that support the building.  As a result, on cloudy days and…oh, at night…it was always rather dark in the building. (Note to architects…providing a building with lots of natural light a.ka. walls of windows only works during the day.)  Well, the problem was finally fixed today.  You see, the few lights that we do have can be adjusted…they’re basically fancy floodlights, I guess.  So, they were adjusted down today.  Which works amazingly well in the fiction section of the PL…the primary area that one couldn’t see in at night.  However, they also adjusted the two lights directly in front of the reference desk…that place that I have to sit at for the majority of my day (and some nights).  Let me tell you…after tonight’s shift, I have a newfound appreciation for torturing someone by shining light in their eyes.  I have had a bright, halogen light shining on my poor retinas for the past 4 hours straight.  I can barely see right now.  And it’s not like I can even turn around and face the opposite direction.  For, behind the reference desk, there is a wall of windows.  And the reflection of the evil lights of torture is actually brighter there!

I swear to you that if this problem is not fixed by Friday, I am calling in sick until it’s corrected.   And considering how quickly things move around here…that might be awhile.

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