November 14, 2011
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I am weathering the storm that is library school in November by drinking a lot of hot chocolate and reading books that are good for my heart, if not for my GPA. I am sitting in the spare room on the top floor of the house, working at the sort of enormous wooden desk on which one would expect to write a manuscript. I have been camped out here since 4:00, cycling between work and not-work. And hot chocolate.
If I'm honest, my grades aren't high on my list of priorities. It isn't that I don't care, but that I refuse to care too much. I trust that I will not fail and most of the time that's enough for me. This shift in attitude is fairly new. What I am absolutely sure of is that I want to always know my soul better than I know how to design an information system or catalogue a book - and it is this that decides how I spend my time.
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That all sounds exactly right.
If you're looking for books, I highly recommend The Sisters Brothers. Within the first two pages I made an "ew" face, laughed out loud, and smiled wistfully. If that's not a great book, I don't know what is. And it's not a long read (I did it over four hours on the train and another two at my dad's) so you won't feel too guilty about school...
x.g.
A wise approach!
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