Library adventure
We finished all the stuff we wanted to do today and had an extra hour, so we watched another episode of the live action One Piece, and I just want to say...it's a silly show.
Today we had an adventure that did not involve bizarre smoke alarm shenanigans. After about a decade of letting our manga comp copies pile up because we live in a cave and therefore have no one to share them with, we realized that physical objects do indeed take up space, and maybe it's about time we did something to...like...stop that. We mentioned it to Mom and Steve once fairly recently, and they said we should hang on to them until they get back from their mission (in almost a year), and they'll happily come take them off our hands and foist them onto our high school English teacher sister, who theoretically would then make a manga library for her students or something, I don't know. It was a tempting offer, since it involves letting someone else do the work, but this issue is really getting out of hand, like, now, so we figured it would probably be better to act sooner rather than later.
That's where our local library system comes in. We'd actually been considering donating manga to the local libraries for approximately years, but the trouble is, the library most convenient to us, while a public library in the afternoons and evenings, is an elementary school library most of the day. That means little kids go there, and there's a lot of manga that is not appropriate for little kids, or at least should probably be checked out by parents first. So we didn't want to go dump a bunch of age-inappropriate manga there, and once it gets into choosing a different library to go to...that's where the whole project gets to be too much effort. (I know. I'm sorry.)
That's where we got the brilliant idea to just ask if they could accept the manga and send it to a different library if it wasn't the kind of thing that would be appropriate for an elementary school. And that's what we did today! We packed up a bunch of manga that we figured should still be okay if a little kid stumbles across it (like, we included My Senpai Is Annoying, which is an office romance and probably wouldn't interest a lot of kids, but it's pure), and we made our way to the library!
...And we got there before it opened, which felt a little awkward and made me even more nervous because libraries make us inexplicably nervous. ...It's not entirely inexplicable. As children, our experience going to the library seemed to always involve going on dark and stormy days, and our local library growing up had gigantic windows, so you could see the Santa Ana winds coming apparently very close to knocking down trees, and Mom liked to check out books of ghost stories, so we learned from a young age to associate libraries with fear.
Anyway, eventually the library opened, and we waited a few more minutes so we wouldn't seem like we were just waiting for them to open (I'm not sure why we wouldn't want it to seem that way, since that was the truth, but we're awkward, so), and then we went in! And it was very quick and painless. We explained that we had about a decade's worth of manga comp copies that we needed to rehome, and they said yeah, all donations get sent straight to the central library headquarters place, so donate away! And that's we did. And now we know we can go back and drop off more books, of any kind, any time we want. Tadah!
Today I'm thankful for our library adventures going well, having a pretty cute library convenient to our home, work also going well, getting to watch more Lupin, and knowing that all our comp copies can find a home.
Today we had an adventure that did not involve bizarre smoke alarm shenanigans. After about a decade of letting our manga comp copies pile up because we live in a cave and therefore have no one to share them with, we realized that physical objects do indeed take up space, and maybe it's about time we did something to...like...stop that. We mentioned it to Mom and Steve once fairly recently, and they said we should hang on to them until they get back from their mission (in almost a year), and they'll happily come take them off our hands and foist them onto our high school English teacher sister, who theoretically would then make a manga library for her students or something, I don't know. It was a tempting offer, since it involves letting someone else do the work, but this issue is really getting out of hand, like, now, so we figured it would probably be better to act sooner rather than later.
That's where our local library system comes in. We'd actually been considering donating manga to the local libraries for approximately years, but the trouble is, the library most convenient to us, while a public library in the afternoons and evenings, is an elementary school library most of the day. That means little kids go there, and there's a lot of manga that is not appropriate for little kids, or at least should probably be checked out by parents first. So we didn't want to go dump a bunch of age-inappropriate manga there, and once it gets into choosing a different library to go to...that's where the whole project gets to be too much effort. (I know. I'm sorry.)
That's where we got the brilliant idea to just ask if they could accept the manga and send it to a different library if it wasn't the kind of thing that would be appropriate for an elementary school. And that's what we did today! We packed up a bunch of manga that we figured should still be okay if a little kid stumbles across it (like, we included My Senpai Is Annoying, which is an office romance and probably wouldn't interest a lot of kids, but it's pure), and we made our way to the library!
...And we got there before it opened, which felt a little awkward and made me even more nervous because libraries make us inexplicably nervous. ...It's not entirely inexplicable. As children, our experience going to the library seemed to always involve going on dark and stormy days, and our local library growing up had gigantic windows, so you could see the Santa Ana winds coming apparently very close to knocking down trees, and Mom liked to check out books of ghost stories, so we learned from a young age to associate libraries with fear.
Anyway, eventually the library opened, and we waited a few more minutes so we wouldn't seem like we were just waiting for them to open (I'm not sure why we wouldn't want it to seem that way, since that was the truth, but we're awkward, so), and then we went in! And it was very quick and painless. We explained that we had about a decade's worth of manga comp copies that we needed to rehome, and they said yeah, all donations get sent straight to the central library headquarters place, so donate away! And that's we did. And now we know we can go back and drop off more books, of any kind, any time we want. Tadah!
Today I'm thankful for our library adventures going well, having a pretty cute library convenient to our home, work also going well, getting to watch more Lupin, and knowing that all our comp copies can find a home.