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Jul. 13th, 2006 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyIt's a very odd sort of day over at the Big Library. Since it's summer, there aren't a lot of students about, but usually there are more than this. Right now, I'm on the fifth floor and can see no one from where I'm sitting. I've seen two people in the half hour that I've been here who aren't staff or student workers. There might be some people down at the computer cluster, but other than that, it's like a mausoleum in here. There's some kind of all-staff meeting going on right now, so most of the desks only have one person at them or are empty with a "we'll be back" sign up. It's also one of those grey, rainy days that always make me kind of distracted. In high school, days like this made me want to think about fandom things or character things, anything that wasn't real, and it's pretty much the same now. They're good thinking days, and they'd be good writing days, too. I always think that, but then I usually end up spending them wandering around, staring at walls or the floor while my brain quietly buzzes about Simon or Laertes or Ezra Jennings or cornelians.
Today definitely feels like one of those days.
Also, they've got new laptops at the Big Library, and are they ever shiny. This one's a Dell Inspiron 6400, for those to whom this kind of thing would mean something. The keys make that soft new key sound, and the mouse buttons (do you still call them mouse buttons when they're not on a mouse?) click silently. It's working so nicely it feels like it's been oiled. There are music-track-playing buttons on the front, and they're sparkly and laquered. The screen is also wider than I'm used it. I keep getting distracted by the shiny buttons and have to stop to pet them.
The problem with doing work in this library is that there are so many books here. Working in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caitirin's library, I wouldn't be tempted to stop what I'm doing to read a short treatise on limnology, but here... well, Poe is about five shelves back over my right shoulder, The Moonstone is a few rows to the right and a little more towards the front, Wordsworth is more in the central area, and the Shakespeare character analysis books are past the large aisle and towards the back left. Then there's always The Tattler, which is somewhere in the vicinity of Wordsworth, if I'm in the mood for 17th century gossip and mudslinging.
Yyyyeah, I should probably start doing some real work now.
Today definitely feels like one of those days.
Also, they've got new laptops at the Big Library, and are they ever shiny. This one's a Dell Inspiron 6400, for those to whom this kind of thing would mean something. The keys make that soft new key sound, and the mouse buttons (do you still call them mouse buttons when they're not on a mouse?) click silently. It's working so nicely it feels like it's been oiled. There are music-track-playing buttons on the front, and they're sparkly and laquered. The screen is also wider than I'm used it. I keep getting distracted by the shiny buttons and have to stop to pet them.
The problem with doing work in this library is that there are so many books here. Working in
caitirin's library, I wouldn't be tempted to stop what I'm doing to read a short treatise on limnology, but here... well, Poe is about five shelves back over my right shoulder, The Moonstone is a few rows to the right and a little more towards the front, Wordsworth is more in the central area, and the Shakespeare character analysis books are past the large aisle and towards the back left. Then there's always The Tattler, which is somewhere in the vicinity of Wordsworth, if I'm in the mood for 17th century gossip and mudslinging.Yyyyeah, I should probably start doing some real work now.
