Thursday, January 31, 2013

Case Study No. 0760: Sara K.

Sara On Working at The Library
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Sara waxes poetic about working at the UC Berkeley Library
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[scene opens with a young female librarian speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: I, uh, work at the circulation desk at the UC Berkeley Library ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: Scanning barcodes, telling people they can't go through or can go through.
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: I can be a profiler, but not in, like, a criminal Holly Hunter way.
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: I'm starting to get really inappropriate, running my mouth a bit.
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: I just finished "The History of Motown," and before that was a history of the song "Louie Louie," and then I'm gonna look for a James Brown biography next week.
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: People always ask me what I'm reading, and I don't wanna talk about what I'm reading, y'know what I mean? I don't wanna get judged on it ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "Bactine"?
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "Post-Colonial Gender Studies in the Caribbean"?
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "Post-Feminist Queer Theory" ... "Art in Public Life in Eighteenth Century France"?
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "Queer Latinidad", "Queer Latinidad", "Queer Latinidad"!
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "The Sexuality of Gender" ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: Is that, like, thirty books?
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: People will do scholarship on anything, really ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "The Jewish Body"?
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: There's a whole article on Jewish feet, like a scholarly article about flat feet!
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: A guy I know is writing a doctoral thesis about "N"s in Germany. Or maybe it was "R"s?
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "Intense Linguistic Studies!"
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: And I've only heard about this through hearsay, actually, because my friend used to work at interlibrary loan ... It's this big book called "The Fall of Jerusalem."
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: If you were to stage a play regarding the fall of Jerusalem, how one would stage it with accuracy.
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: How you would set up the stage ...
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SARA K: In Pristinium, add the smell of ... like, ten goats and their blood.
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: The scent of virgin sex!
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SARA K: A military scholarship is the most profitable ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: People are gonna wanna read about, if you fought the Civil War with AK-47s ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "The Joy of Cooking"!
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: I'm not gonna make sweetbread, I don't wanna make trype. But if I wanted to, or skin a rabbit or something, it would let me know how to do that ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: "How to Cook Everything" by the Barefoot Contessa!
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: Oh, I got screamed at to my face because of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" the other day! This guy comes in and he wants this book ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: We have ten million volumes, and I'm sorry if you can't find it, we'll put a search on it.
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: He yells at me, and just starts screaming!
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: I get screamed at to my face!
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: You can buy "Orlando" at the bookstore!
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: Honestly though ... If, like, the most that I can complain about my job is that someone wants some arbitrary random "ism" book, then I can't really complain, huh?
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: My life is so boring, and I kinda like it that way right now ...
[cut to another shot of Sara speaking directly to the camera]
SARA K: Let the crazy train happen!

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From seankeanecomedy.com:

I just discovered Kendall Does It, and it is great. While perusing the archives, imagine my surprise to find an interview with my pal and Cal library superstar Sara K.

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