Maxine Schmidt

74, Female

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
New England
About Me:
I'm currently a librarian in an academic science library. In the past, I have worked as a movie usher, carrot packer, geologist, health agent, and teacher. I am an avid crime novel reader, and, like most people I know, I have a novel (or at least parts of one) in the works. As I get older, though, the number of perfect victims has grown to an unmanageable size.
I Am A:
Reader, Librarian
Books And Authors I Like:
Ian Rankin, Elizabeth George, P.D. James, Margaret Maron, Ellen Hart, Walter Mosely, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
I don't get out much, and we have the skinniest cable subscription we could get, so this is a short and dated list. Movies: Crash, The Maltese Falcon, The Matrix, The Thin Man. TV: the old Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cold Case, The Simpsons, and Red Sox baseball.

Comment Wall:

  • Meredith Anthony

    Maxine-- I love your photo! And you've been a carrot packer! How cool is that? Meredith

    Apr 13, 2007

  • Maxine Schmidt

    Thanks! The picture is a reminder to me of a sweet time-- early in the morning on a beach on Lake Superior, cup of coffee, no one else up yet...sigh.
    Yeah, the carrot-packer thing was short and brutal, and my hands were orange for a week afterwards. But say more about the boxing lessons!

    Apr 13, 2007

  • Karen Dionne

    I want to be your feet.

    Apr 13, 2007

  • Maxine Schmidt

    I'd love to have my feet there again, at least if it was August.

    Apr 14, 2007

  • LJ Roberts

    Hi Maxine,
    I looked at Library Thing but the task of cataloging the ~5,000 books I currently have and including all the notes I keep on them was too much. I would spend all my free time doing that without any time left for actually reading. I just couldn't quite face it. :-)

    Apr 14, 2007

  • L. A. Starks

    "As I get older, though, the number of perfect victims has grown to an unmanageable size." Love it!

    Apr 20, 2007

  • Barbara Fister

    Another librarian! and an academic one, to boot. We don't have an actual science librarian on my campus, but I do my best to pretend. I work with a few perfect victims - should we swap, like in that Alfred Hitchcock movie?

    Apr 20, 2007

  • Karyn J. Powers

    Hi Maxine,
    My nieces and nephews live in the UP and wake up every day a block from the lake. It's great three months of the year. The other nine months give me pause.

    Apr 24, 2007

  • Maxine Schmidt

    I almost applied for a job at Northern Michigan University, but I figured the winters would ruin the perfect three months. If I had been a little younger though...

    Apr 26, 2007

  • Chris Redding

    Your pic makes me think of simpler times at the Shore.
    Sometimes I wish I lived closer to the beach.
    Chris Redding

    Apr 26, 2007

  • Maxine Schmidt

    Even when I lived in Boston, I was always aware of the ocean. Sometimes I could smell it, even when I was a few miles from the harbor.

    Apr 27, 2007