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Mar. 24th, 2013 08:44 pmThings:
- So, I guess I haven't posted since Tuesday? Huh.
- Tomorrow, the sisters are coming to visit for a week. Alas, I cannot go and pick them up from the airport as I will be working but it is still exciting that they will be here! Hurrah!
- This past Thursday, the staff of the Kingston library all went on a library field trip to see four libraries from outside our system, so we could pick the things we like about them and the things we hate and tell them to the architect and designer when/if we get to have a new building. It was surprisingly fun. Also, every single one of us at one point or another during the day straightened books on the shelves of a library that is not even in any way ours. Seriously, all of us did it. We just couldn't help ourselves.
- I have been reading nonfiction! In particular, The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, which is about a cholera outbreak in London in 1854*. And if you, like me, wanted the sewer history section of Les Miserables to go on for at least a couple more chapters**, you should totally read this book. I mean, yes, it is mostly about cholera and people discovering how you get cholera and inventing epidemiology, which is fascinating, but there is also so much history of sewers and waste management! It is so interesting!
( - Until a few months ago, I had no idea that I was at all interested in the history of sewers and waste management. Victor Hugo, what have you done to me?)
- Also, I have been watching Elementary. Which is fun. And is probably what I am going to do when I am done with this post. 8)
*Some of you are thinking, "Really, Sara, you're voluntarily reading a book about an outbreak of a deadly and terrifying disease?" Yes. Yes, I am. And have mostly not freaked out! But I will admit there was a day when I first started the book during which I drank nothing but tea so that I could make sure the water had been boiled first.
**I realize that the number of people to whom this applies is very small. But seriously, Victor Hugo, tell me more about the history of the Paris sewers. The guy who spent seven years exploring and mapping the sewer system? I want a book about that guy.
- So, I guess I haven't posted since Tuesday? Huh.
- Tomorrow, the sisters are coming to visit for a week. Alas, I cannot go and pick them up from the airport as I will be working but it is still exciting that they will be here! Hurrah!
- This past Thursday, the staff of the Kingston library all went on a library field trip to see four libraries from outside our system, so we could pick the things we like about them and the things we hate and tell them to the architect and designer when/if we get to have a new building. It was surprisingly fun. Also, every single one of us at one point or another during the day straightened books on the shelves of a library that is not even in any way ours. Seriously, all of us did it. We just couldn't help ourselves.
- I have been reading nonfiction! In particular, The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, which is about a cholera outbreak in London in 1854*. And if you, like me, wanted the sewer history section of Les Miserables to go on for at least a couple more chapters**, you should totally read this book. I mean, yes, it is mostly about cholera and people discovering how you get cholera and inventing epidemiology, which is fascinating, but there is also so much history of sewers and waste management! It is so interesting!
( - Until a few months ago, I had no idea that I was at all interested in the history of sewers and waste management. Victor Hugo, what have you done to me?)
- Also, I have been watching Elementary. Which is fun. And is probably what I am going to do when I am done with this post. 8)
*Some of you are thinking, "Really, Sara, you're voluntarily reading a book about an outbreak of a deadly and terrifying disease?" Yes. Yes, I am. And have mostly not freaked out! But I will admit there was a day when I first started the book during which I drank nothing but tea so that I could make sure the water had been boiled first.
**I realize that the number of people to whom this applies is very small. But seriously, Victor Hugo, tell me more about the history of the Paris sewers. The guy who spent seven years exploring and mapping the sewer system? I want a book about that guy.
