types of Besses

librarian, southpaw, played the trombone & baritone in band, met Bruce Campbell at booksigning rather than attend Job Fair in grad school, likes beer festivals, roller coasters, and the Discovery Channel, does not like lima beans, Reese Witherspoon, and songs that feature sirens or ringing phones in the background.

Gerswin opera about African American life in the 1930s. Older men, upon hearing my name, can usually be expected to intone, "Bess, you is my woman now", which a line from one of the songs. This happens a lot at work.

name familiarly given in the British Army to the old flint-lock musket.

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Not exactly the easiest person to emulate.

also called Bess-bug, Betsy Bug, or Horned Passalus Beetle, any of approximately 500 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) mostly found in the tropics, with a few species found in North America.

content-control software, works mainly as an Internet filter, compliant with CIPA.. As a reference librarian at a public library, the irony of this is not lost on me, I assure you.