Most of my friends know that I have a mostly suppressed but lingering tendency toward conspiratorial thinking. I think of myself also as a pretty rational person, so I try to keep this cogitation at bay and avoid sharing it with others. But, one thing that always gets me going down this pot-hole filled path [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘books’
July 3, 2008
been a long time
I woke up this morning with an overwhelming sense of incompetence. I haven’t really managed to do anything I have recently set out to do: write a scholarly paper, quit smoking, clear up my library’s archives, do some job applications, keep up with this blog. It’s not like I have scads of readers out there [...]
May 19, 2008
new book
Now that I have finished reading all the available Song of Ice and Fire I’ve been having a hard time figuring out what to do with my life. A work (can’t call it a book, since it’s four and probably should be six) like that keeps you involved for awhile and leaves you feeling a [...]
May 3, 2008
minimalia
Taking a break from the academic discussions of the last couple of days, my head is fuzzy. And the Lonely Librarian is especially lonely with not a one person coming in today. My short Saturday shift ends soon, and I can walk out into the gray warm humidity of a Pittsburgh Spring. Not so bad, [...]
