It’s a lazy Sunday. Well not so lazy. I’ve done the laundry and a few other housecleaning chores, but the day seems to have slipped by and now I just want to spend the rest of it lost in a book. I’m sure you all understand.
First though I have to tell you about my little panic the other day. My neighborhood public library branch closed at end of day yesterday for renovations. The whole insides are being re-done and it will take a little over a year. My library is a five minute bike ride from my house, the next closest library is several miles away on a busy street. When I found out my branch would be closed for over a year I had a panic attack. What am I going to do? How am I going to get library books? I can’t not go to the library for an entire year! This is terrible!
And then a little voice in my head said, “Hold on Stef! Before you start wailing in anguish and getting all melodramatic, where do you work?”
“Well, little voice,” I said, “I work in a library. What’s that got to do with anything?”
The little voice cleared her throat and tapped her foot impatiently.
“What?” I said stupidly.
“Where do you work?” asked the little voice.
“A library,” said I rather petulantly. “A library! I work in a library! I can get books at work!”
The little voice sighed her exasperation and faded away. But as she did so I think I heard her say, “Duh!”
My poor voices. I sure make things hard for them sometimes.
Heh. Little voices can be annoying but they are usually right!
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I love your header picture, by the way (and those little voices definitely suck…)
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Just think how beautiful your library will be when it reopens. (You’re little voice will do the happy dance then š
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Lol!! But you have my sympathy – what’s logic got to do with it when a souce of books dries up? I’m sure that would rattle me! š
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So that means that within a year you will be ready to take the BAR?
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Hehehe… this is too funny. š
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But still…there’s something about riding your bike over to your library on a cool, fall Saturday afternoon, or just wandering through the stacks. For that…I feel your pain.
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Thanks very much for the laugh, although I sympathize!
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In King County, WA, readers can also have the library mail books to their home. Very convenient, but no ‘page smell’ permeating the air from just one book.
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But they’ll be library books from work! lol
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Sylvia, I think the little voices are so annoying because they are usually right!
Jessica, thanks! It’s Van Gogh’s Starry Night one of my all-time favorite paintings. And yeah, those voices sure know how to stick it to a person.
Diane, you are right, they are somehow going to be adding 4,300 square feet without doing anything to the outside structure. From the architect’s drawings it will be lovely and me and my voice will be very happy š
Litlove, I knew other book folk would understand! Even though I can still get all the books I want, the fact that my branch library won’t be one of my regular destinations just messes everything up.
Cindy my sister, sure the bar exam. Happen during happy hour right? š
Alayne, glad you found it amusing š
Grad, thank you. I will miss riding my bike over there. Maybe the renovation will include better bike parking, the rack they have is rather beat up. I won’t say not going there for a year is worth a new bike rack, but it would help ease the pain.
Lesley, I am glad you had a laugh! And thanks for the sympathy!
Bikkuri, books in the mail from the library is convenient, but as you note, the “page smell” is missing. Atmosphere is very important š
Carrie, yes there will, probably more than I have time to really read.
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Oh, thank goodness for working in a library! It would truly have been a disaster otherwise. You changed jobs just at the right time apparently!
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