Wednesday, February 16, 2011

it shouldn't be allowed

Today I went to a meeting in place of my boss, a meeting of all the library managers in the land...so I was a little out of my element but not by much.  When the meeting agenda was passed out, it had been typed in Comic Sans.  I was unable to concentrate after that.  I couldn't even take notes.  I was thinking the career path I chose for myself was a complete comic sans.  There were some passionate discussions; thought-provoking and all...but  the common denominator was Comic Sans.

To back pedal, before the meeting, there was the infamous lunch-before-the-meeting.  It was at Olive Garden, which is the Comic Sans of restaurants.  I fell a little bit in love with a manager from another library who interrupted everything for her soup refill.  This is boring!  Let me have more of that minestrone, would you!  Another manager ate those infamous bread sticks with her mouth open.  I sort of fell out of love with her.  Another manager pointed out a little tiny gargoyle amongst the decor.  She wondered why Olive Garden would spend money on something like that, because she doubted most people notice it.  Because it is Styrofoam and probably cost fifty cents.

Now, I'm really jumping.  At the break, in the middle of the meeting, there were refreshments.  There was a candy bowl filled with chocolate truffles, all wrapped in different colors.  There was a chart, next to the bowl, explaining that the red wrappers were dark chocolate, the blue wrappers were milk chocolate...etc.  We. Are. Librarians?  We. Can. Read. Most likely?  But thanks for the chart.

Comic Sans.

3 comments:

Verdant Earl said...

Unfortunately, we live in a comic sans world. We need a classier font...and a classier world.

madge said...

true dat

kimberlina said...

that made my brain hurt. oyyyyyy.

i'm so not surprised, of course.