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day off
aerobicizing batman
It was nice meeting you, too?
Neighbor: I see you came from the library. Get anything good?
Me: We'll see!
Neighbor: I haven't been in years. I had an overdue book and they like tripled my fines. Libraries should just be free, they're so-
Me: Um, I should probably tell you.. I'm a librarian.. I don't have a lot of sympathy for overdue books. [awkward laugh]
Neighbor: Well now I'm going to feel guilty every time I see you. You hate me now, right?
Me: No, no, it happens!
Neighbor: So did you need a degree for that?
Me: Um, actually I have a Masters in library and information science.
Neighbor: That seems unnecessary.
Me: ...Ihavetogonow.
...I can relate. hah
When school is hard
Sometimes I feel like,
But then I remember how much I love Classics and I’m just like,
So This is the New Year
So everybody put your best suit or dress on. Let’s make believe that we are wealthy for just this once. Lighting firecrackers out of the front lawn as thirty dialogs bleed into one.
I wish the world was flat like the old days where I could travel just by folding a map. No more airplanes or speed trains or freeways. There’d be no distance that could hold us back.
I don’t know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
-Gillian Flynn, “Gone Girl”
