Brains!

'Dude you're totally a librarian!' is the response I receive when I tell people I'm considering going to library school. Even better then this, I feel more whole, more proud of myself, when I can answer 'what I do?', with 'I'm a prospective grad student', rather then 'I'm a mail clerk'. I also realize, that is what I do, but not who I am. But we all know, that if someone asked 'who are you?', we'd think it weird. People ask 'what do you do', and our automatic response is to say something about our employment. Next time someone asks me what I do, I'm going to say I write, I collect bottle caps, I yelp, I fart.

Anyway back to Librarians. From Book

"Scanners want to taste everything. They love to learn about the structure of a flower, and they love to learn about the theory of music. And the adventures of travel. And the tangle of politics, works of art, and life is hardly long enough to see them all (102)". "Because our culture values the diver's specialization and determination, we too often think scanners as people who simply won't get down to work. This is a foolish cultural oversight. If you're a scanner, you have extraordinary special and valuable skills (102)". "You're highly adaptable to new cultures, you're so flexible you can turn on a dime (102)". "Although you may be unwilling to dedicate yourself to one path, you don't lack discipline or have a low IQ. On the contrary, you're dedicated to learning all that you can, and you're intelligent enough to delight in all that you learn (103)". "In many cases the only problem for scanners is finding the kind of work that will allow them to use their talent...(103)".

"Scanners are poets--and librarians, documentary filmmakers, explorers, brilliant sales people, good managers, naturally gifted teachers (104)".

(See how this book is inside my head?!)