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(this post, well the icon really, is especially forpaperballet .)
i spent the afternoon in the local library of my hometown, a small south louisiana cajun town, waiting for their computers to go back online so that i could print out things that i intended to get in the mail today as part of a job application. i emailed myself documents i needed because my printer isn't working and i figured i'd just print stuff out at the library. alas, it was not to be! their computers were down and never came back online all afternoon. all the librarian could offer me by way of explanation was, "well cher, sometimes that just happens. i'm not sure why. we're lucky. the computers at the branch down the bayou have been down all week." ::sigh:: things move slow in the backwaters, it seems. i have a doctor's appointment in new orleans tomorrow morning so i guess i'll handle things then.
however, sitting in that library was like walking into a time warp. when i was a kid, we lived about 4 blocks from the library, so i rode my bike there almost every day to get new books. the library here still smells exactly the same. when i walked in and took a whiff, i almost automatically walked over to the desk set up for school kids to pick up the paste-on stars they use to stick on cards in order to keep track of their summer reading. yanno, i was one of those kids who would get an award for reading the most books in my grade during the summer, the kid at whom everybody else rolled their eyes. that kid. that was me. the kid who finished her work first in class and was teacher's pet and was often picked to monitor the classroom when the teacher had to leave for a minute. yep. me. no wonder i grew up to be so drawn to bad boys.