You call up your boyfriend to whine about your illness, speculating that you may be dying of diphtheria or consumption, and he proceeds to take a medical dictionary off the shelf and starts reading the symptoms of diphtheria to you.
Librarians have a reference book for any occasion.
8:57 am on June 1st, 2004 1
How to tell you’re dating a librarian
Tangognat says it’s when: You call up your boyfriend to whine about your illness, speculating that you may be dying of diptheria or consumption, and…
11:59 am on June 1st, 2004 2
i used to work at a college library, and i have to say, i can still rattle off all the subject listings for the library of congress call number system. it’s a sickness unto itself.
2:30 pm on June 1st, 2004 3
For reals? *I* can’t even rattle off LCC from memory…
It’s nice that your librarian boyfriend will attempt to diagnose you. The guys I date merely resort to prescribing more alcohol for any ailment..
2:41 pm on June 1st, 2004 4
I couldn’t rattle off LCC from memory, but I know where to look it up
Maybe I should try the alcohol cure after my reference shift tonight…
10:25 pm on June 3rd, 2004 5
Librarians aren’t the only people to suffer from the “let me read you the medical book” syndrome. Chemistry professors are also inclined to think they’re smarter than physicians (after all, they find it harder to get through our classes than medical school). So at the least symptom, they grab the Merck Manual or “Surgery for Dummies” and act as if they’ve been curing people for 30 years. But then, some chemists I know are librarians in disguise.
6:40 pm on June 8th, 2004 6
I helped convince my husband that his stomachache may have been appendicitis (it was, he had an appendectomy 12 hours later) … I couldn’t remember any of the reputable health websites we talked about in online searching class, but I figured that the Medical Libraries Association would have good links. And they did. And off we went to the emergency room.
7:26 pm on June 8th, 2004 7
Whew Eli! That’s a case where your research skills really came in handy.