i love the dewey decimal system

i worked at the library my senior year of college. I would find really old journals, mostly from the 1800's, bring 'em back to the office, fix their record in the electronic card catalog and then barcode them. it was a hell of a lot of fun. i love books, and i used to love going to the library because it always smelled like old books. there's nothing as comfortable as an old dark library. it makes you feel so safe.

people are really bad at shelving books. how hard is it to know that 976.01 goes after 976.007? apparently it's the most difficult thing ever. but if a book was missing, i could usually find it. it was fun spending 20 minutes looking for an old copy of the minutes of the chicago sanitation board so i can take it back upstairs and bind it. why was that fun? i think there's something wrong with me.

when i'm done with the teaching thing, maybe i'll go back to work in a library. i have a feeling i would always love that.

thinking, that's all.

enough about libraries. tonight we dine on steak. i know eating meat disqualifies me from ever being in a successful rock band, but i like it so much gosh darnit!!