The CCSF--Public Library Connection

Connections and disconnections.

I wasn't feeling great on Saturday morning, when I must have taken an overdose of Robittussen and slammed against the wall and fell to the floor, where I discovered a pool of blood only after coming out of the bathroom a few minutes later.  I realized the back of my head was bleeding.  I called the Kaiser advice nurse, and she made an appointment for me at 9:00.  When I asked whether I could go the Y before the appointment, she suggested that I check it out first, so I did, stopping along the way only to get some xanthan gum for a cake for a friend who thinks he's gluten-intolerant and would be at our SuperBowl gathering the following day.  

The doctor and nurses stapled the gash and, because I'm over 60, sent me up the hill for  a CT in Radiology and, after reading it, let me go.

I'd asked that my brilliant tech help Efren, who had planned to come at 9:00 for another session, come at 10:00, and then that hour had to be moved forward a little.

We had a good session, but I wanted to get material for late-start classes at CCSF so I could take it around this week.

I caught Susan Lopez just after 1:00, the hour she'd be leaving the Mission Campus, and since she was on her way to the Ocean Campus to leave material, we met there.  Among the fliers was this one listing some of the more than 300 CCSF classes starting in Feb., March, or later.  

I told her my dramatic blood-on-the-floor-stapled gash story, but she was more concerned about my bad cough and told me to check it out. So on Monday I did.

My doctor prescribed two medicines--one for a cough suppressant, another in case of allergies--and in the early afternoon I  went to the following libraries:

West Portal

Parkside

Sunset

Richmond

Anza

Ortega

Merced

East---West--North East, North East, West, South West,  East.

I liked weaving east and west on a particularly sunny (and hot) February day.

As always, people were very welcoming.  One librarian expressed the wish that her nephew in Kansas could find something like the GED program at John Adams so he could get his high school degree and not feel self-conscious about not already having it.  She also asked, looking at the list of 300+ courses starting in Feb., March, or later,  "What's heterosexism?" I told her and got the impression that she was more enthusiastic about the GED program.  (We're not in Kansas anymore.)

Some librarians said they'd make copies and put them out.  Others said they had binders that people went through regularly. 

I asked about picking up out-dated flyers so they wouldn't distract from the new but was told either that they regularly go through the material to be sure it's up-to-date or that all they had was the Spring Schedule of Classes.

The only negative was that I had trouble speaking as I was going through the different flyers with the librarians.   The cough-suppressant didn't suppress enough!

As always, everyone (including me) was  impressed by the variety of courses being offered.