"Take a Look; It's In a Book..."
It appears I'm still alive. Wonder of wonders!
I skulked around the university library for a couple hours today, just for something to do that would get me out of my apartment for part of the weekend. Slowly, I became more and more depressed, because it occurred to me that even if I could read ten books a day, acquired total recall so that I would never have to read a book more than once, and restricted my reading list to those topics that I already had initial interest in, I'd still never be able to read them all.
Plus, I felt guilty about checking anything out, since I have stuff that needs doing which really ought to take higher priority.
Then the title of a particular volume caught my eye, and my mood brightened immediately:
"Scott of the Antarctic."
After that, all I could think about was Michael Palin wearing a fur coat on a beach and fighting a 40-foot-tall penguin.
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, the map of Southeast Asia on the fourth floor is no longer current (only to be expected with a 2001 copyright date, I guess) in that the capitals of Burma and Palau have changed.
Good night, and good luck.
[Edited to fix the timestamp to something approximating the correct local time. Lousy UTC defaults...]
I skulked around the university library for a couple hours today, just for something to do that would get me out of my apartment for part of the weekend. Slowly, I became more and more depressed, because it occurred to me that even if I could read ten books a day, acquired total recall so that I would never have to read a book more than once, and restricted my reading list to those topics that I already had initial interest in, I'd still never be able to read them all.
Plus, I felt guilty about checking anything out, since I have stuff that needs doing which really ought to take higher priority.
Then the title of a particular volume caught my eye, and my mood brightened immediately:
"Scott of the Antarctic."
After that, all I could think about was Michael Palin wearing a fur coat on a beach and fighting a 40-foot-tall penguin.
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, the map of Southeast Asia on the fourth floor is no longer current (only to be expected with a 2001 copyright date, I guess) in that the capitals of Burma and Palau have changed.
Good night, and good luck.
[Edited to fix the timestamp to something approximating the correct local time. Lousy UTC defaults...]