The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, by Evan Friss.

I know, right? It's got to be an exhausting way to live

My History of the English Language professor would go on regular rants about the blue-haired grammarians who did things like insert a silent b into the perfectly cromulent French loanword "dette" so the refined and educated could demonstrate its Latin derivation

Not me, no.

and what is remembered, lives

Congratulations! I bought a copy for my husband, so we did our bit to keep it there a little longer

I'm sorry, human, this meeting is for supervisors only

Same!

I could maybe, possibly excuse him getting the tattoos when he was young and dumb, but I cannot excuse him for not removing the tattoos well before he decided to run for office.

Also, all I know about this is what I've picked up from the Discourse du Jour, which means I need to log off

Pity I can't count ranting as exercise, I would be a size 2

People tell me I just need to find an activity I enjoy, and I'm like: You don't get it, no part of this is ever fun for me. It never becomes a habit that I miss if I can't do it. It remains a tedious chore that I have to force myself to do

Almost forgot, the Carterette Series webinars from the Georgia Library Association are always topical

Seconding U of WI i-school, they're great. I like Library Juice Academy. ALA e-learning has both paid and free content, and you don't have to be a member to sign up. WebJunction curates a monthly list of free webinars for library staff.

Oh no, I am so sorry

Depends on whether the universal translator has figured out how to speak Cat