Jackson Leaks
Spring 1996
This spring's issue of the Leaks, edited by Audrey and Ginger, sported a beautiful Egyptian-motif cover. In it, staff shared tragic family stories that are now sources of amusement. It also featured a list of staff's favourites (cars, album covers, and albums), suggestions for new library committees, winter storm survival tips, staff musings about famous people with whom they'd like to have lunch and their ideas for conversation, and other tidbits. Two other particularly interesting sections included and the online Jackson Leaks Virtual Pet Show and Laura Hayworth's storm survival story.
This page was last modified on 26 March 1996.
Suggestions for new library committees
- Committee to test recipes found in Jackson Library's cookbook collection
- Pizza Committee: devoted to taste-testing pizzas
- Short work-week committee
- Committee for the exploration of outer space
- Committee to colonize Mars
- Committee to establish one day work-weeks with full five-day-per-week pay
- Committee to abolish committees
- Committee to taste test new chocolate desserts for ARA
- Plant the world in flowers committee
- Build a bypass around Kernersville committee
- Alleviate onlooker-delays committee
- Early retirement committee
- Committee to end all committees
- Committee to get a new HVAC system for Jackson Main so we won't have to keep breathing in stuff that looks like pepper but isn't
- Nap mat committee
- Milk and cookies committee
- Breakfast biscuit committee
- Staff Assn social committee subcommittee on sausage balls
- Sleeping late committee
- Part-time job replacement committee
- Committee to create a library sofa on the roof
- Committee to form pleasant weather policy (ie. close to go outside and play)
- Committee to test sleepability and comfort of library furniture
- Committee to monitor the Department of Redundancy Department
- Shoot the Change Steering Committee Committee
- Stand around eating while complaining about our supervisors committee
- Committee to monitor the temperature of the staff beer cooler
- Committee to fix clocks after the seasonal time change
- Phone-all-your-work-from-home committee
- Staff wine tasting committee
- Committee on committees
- Committee to order pizza
- Staff nap time committee
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Winter storm survival tips
- Take lots of bubble baths
- Walk around Friendly Center and go to the movies
- Practice water boiling with a hurricane lamp
- Snuggle seriously in front of a fire
- Don't lose your electricity or cable
- Keep a wood pile and well-stocked bar
- Go sledding often
- Hire a chauffeur
- Play with your neighbours' kids in the snow
- Homemade soup and two good books are essential
- Visit friends who still have power, cable, and food
- Go to Florida
- Take plenty of photos and be sure to drop them off for developing at the same time as everyone else
- Encounter reality with two kids, cabin fever, and dwindling patience
- Pig out on snack food and contemplate the repairs to your porch because of the snow
- Clean out closets; play Scrabble between closets
- Avoid frostbite
- Get caught up on your backlog of recorded TV shows
- Change diapers, entertain the baby, and sleep, in that order
- Catch up on holiday baking that you didn't have time for in December
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Laura Hayworth's storm survival story
With all the ominous forecasts of power outages, I spent the early hours of the [first storm] rushing around the house doing laundry, cooking, gathering candles and matches, bringing in firewood, and laying a fire. Elizabeth was very excited about the possibility of losing power. By mid-afternoon we were getting calls from friends and family who'd lost power and Elizabeth was getting really disgusted; she desperately wanted our electricity to go off! By early evening it became clear to her that everyone in the world was without power except us. She was incensed. So... during supper, Tony quietly sneaked away to the basement and threw the main breaker. After the initial surprise and a moment of fear, Elizabeth was thrilled. We spent a lovely evening talking, playing games, and reading by the fire. (Yes, Elizabeth did figure it out!)
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