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I just waited a good five minutes to take over the front desk from my coworker because she was trapped by a man stubbornly and at great length telling her the history of the War of the Currents, despite all her polite attempts to extricate herself.

And that is what working at the library is like.

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So, lo these many years ago*, I decided that it would be a good idea to make my own for-my-own-consumption-only unabridged audiobooks of The Lord of the Rings. Because the available options for unabridged recordings of LotR are...not good, and I enjoy reading aloud. This was obviously a ridiculous undertaking because I am terrible about completing long-term projects in anything like a timely manner, as is evidenced by the fact that is 2018, I haven't done any recording at all this year, and the last time I worked on it, I had only hit the beginning of The Two Towers.

However.

On a whim, I decided to listen to some of it while I knitted on my dinner break and you guys, it's pretty good. I mean, it's not in any way professional quality, but I read pretty well**. I have a long vacation coming up and may have to start working on this thing again, so that I can then listen to it.***








*That is, in 2015.

**I am also fortunate in that I'm not weirded out by the sound of my own voice most of the time.

***The problem with reading The Two Towers is that I have listened to the BBC radio version so many times that I'm not sure I can read the same lines without mimicking the inflections used in that recording.
It's going to be an issue.