downfall of civilization
Nov. 9th, 2004 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Dave just walked into my room (he's preparing to go out the door to school) and put his hand into his jacket pocket. "Oh no," he said, taking his hand out. "I'm contributing to the downfall of our libraries."
He held up his hand.
In it was one of their tiny yellow pencil stubs.
Erie Co. has cut its library system's funding by 80% as of Jan. 1. How I'm going to continue to research and write novels, i don't know. They'll probably have to close all their branches. An incredulous checkout-counter girl read us a statement stutteringly, laughingly, the last time we were at the central branch-- they had just gotten the news-- to ask us whether the library was valuable to us and to ask us to please contact our county officials and let them know that. But now there are flyers and leaflets at the branch library in Kenmore too.
The little one in Kenmore, I use mostly as a book drop. They've got almost nothing, but if you don't know what you want and just need A Novel, or want to pick up a paperback, they've got a sort of representative sampling of various genres, and then they have a rack of Summer Reading List kinda books, all the ones you have to read in high school.
It had been years since I'd been to a library-- I hadn't since I'd graduated university, I don't think, because I never lived anywhere long enough to get a library card-- but I've been using the hell out of Erie Co.'s libraries this quarter. I'm a bit disillusioned by Erie. Co. Particularly as one of the reasons they have no money is that their executive, elected on the Reform ticket, went ahead and appointed all his buddies to jobs, and is only now being astonished that--- gasp--- they're all corrupt.
Duh.
In other news, we still have snow. And it started snowing this morning. If I were a worthwhile human being, with reasonable motivation, I would go get the cord for the camera and download the pictures. But, seeing as the cord is six feet away and I'd have to move... Naw.
"Worthwhile" is overrated.
And in still other news, I went to bed "early" last night because I figured getting all that writing done yesterday (it felt like I did a hell of a lot, though I haven't really evaluated) was worth a break, and also I started feeling kinda ill at 2:30 am, and thought sleep would help it. But I'm still groggy and overtired this morning, and still feel like crap. So I can't see as this getting-six-hours-at-a-stretch thing has any merit.
He held up his hand.
In it was one of their tiny yellow pencil stubs.
Erie Co. has cut its library system's funding by 80% as of Jan. 1. How I'm going to continue to research and write novels, i don't know. They'll probably have to close all their branches. An incredulous checkout-counter girl read us a statement stutteringly, laughingly, the last time we were at the central branch-- they had just gotten the news-- to ask us whether the library was valuable to us and to ask us to please contact our county officials and let them know that. But now there are flyers and leaflets at the branch library in Kenmore too.
The little one in Kenmore, I use mostly as a book drop. They've got almost nothing, but if you don't know what you want and just need A Novel, or want to pick up a paperback, they've got a sort of representative sampling of various genres, and then they have a rack of Summer Reading List kinda books, all the ones you have to read in high school.
It had been years since I'd been to a library-- I hadn't since I'd graduated university, I don't think, because I never lived anywhere long enough to get a library card-- but I've been using the hell out of Erie Co.'s libraries this quarter. I'm a bit disillusioned by Erie. Co. Particularly as one of the reasons they have no money is that their executive, elected on the Reform ticket, went ahead and appointed all his buddies to jobs, and is only now being astonished that--- gasp--- they're all corrupt.
Duh.
In other news, we still have snow. And it started snowing this morning. If I were a worthwhile human being, with reasonable motivation, I would go get the cord for the camera and download the pictures. But, seeing as the cord is six feet away and I'd have to move... Naw.
"Worthwhile" is overrated.
And in still other news, I went to bed "early" last night because I figured getting all that writing done yesterday (it felt like I did a hell of a lot, though I haven't really evaluated) was worth a break, and also I started feeling kinda ill at 2:30 am, and thought sleep would help it. But I'm still groggy and overtired this morning, and still feel like crap. So I can't see as this getting-six-hours-at-a-stretch thing has any merit.
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Date: 2004-11-09 06:07 pm (UTC)But, seeing as the cord is six feet away and I'd have to move... Naw.
It's even worse when your printer is upstairs. There's shit in the tray that I printed months ago but haven't gotten around to retrieving. I glory in the utter laziness.
And still envy your snow.
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Date: 2004-11-09 07:53 pm (UTC)You know, I could even *reach* the cord. If I stretched. But I'd have to stretch.
And I could then plug it into my keyboard.
...
But i'd have to stretch.
And then I'd have to flip the button, y'know? And click once. That's a ton of hassle.
When it was harder, I used to *bother*...