I visited my local public library today and found out just how comfortable some people are looking at porn.
I was in a computer room, when I happened to look behind me and saw a man on the opposite wall, looking at all kinds of porn. There were about seven other people in the room, including teenage girls.
Now each computer had a screen draped in front of the monitor that made viewing from anywhere but directly in front of it difficult. So people couldn't directly see what he was looking at except if they were in front of the monitor, or across the room and directly behind it, as I was.
A librarian even came into the room to help someone beside the man print something. Before this, the young girl beside the man asked him if he knew how to print something from the computer. He calmly told her how and went back to his voyeristic viewing in the middle of the afternoon in the library.
I never thought someone would be bold enough or desperate enough to have to go to a library to look at porn. But, then again, maybe I overestimated everyone's carnal nature.
Too bad libraries have become battle grounds for freedom of expression and ways for the ACLU to fight for the ability to look at pornography next to teenage girls.
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I am at a "small-town" newspaper in a city that is no longer small. Makes for an odd dynamic. After two years full-time in Chicago at that same magazine, I moved here with my husband who had taken a job as a youth pastor at a local Methodist church. Turning down an offer in boating, I thought it would be "fun" to be a reporter. Turns out that was really wrong, but writing fairly about controversies comes easily to me for whatever reason. (It's fun to write a story when both sides are just fuming and then have both sides think you did an okay job.) But! I say that and am still looking for another job (writing for a newspaper is fine - having to walk in those doors every day to all the drama is not).
So, applying for grad school and buying a house and watching all the job boards closely. That's the past three years in a nutshell in a round-about answer to your question!
What have you been up to?
I worked for City News Service ( a newswire owned by the Trib) for a year and then figured out journalism wasn't what I wanted to do.
So now I'm getting some odd jobs while taking a break and trying to save up some money.
I'm strongly thinking of going to grad school to study psychology and go into the counseling field.
Kind of a switch for another commie from Moody but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Still enjoying the city and thinking of going to Adler School of Professional Psychology ( on Wacker).
That's sort of the last two years for me.
What town are you writing about? All the drama (and crime reporting) of Chicago wore on me as well.
Funny new job: helping a Medill School of Journalism student with bad carpal tunnel take notes and type things for his classes. And get a free education in the career which I realized I didn't want to pursue.
moreover, too bad people are so desperate that they look at porn, at home, in privacy.
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