Hello Friday.

It has been a long week. I've had a lot to do, a lot on my mind, and not nearly enough time or mental capacity to handle it all. To make it all worse, we went into Daylight Savings Time. I'm not sure what we're saving because now it's dark when it should be light. Stupid Puppy (also known as my loving sidekick Miss Bennet) is all sorts of hyper because the sun goes down not long after I get home from work, and I won't take her to the dog park in the dark.

Anywho, I got an email this week from the Ann Arbor District Library, telling me that my library card is about to expire.

Huh.

I haven't lived in Ann Arbor in nearly two years, but apparently I renewed my card just before I moved away, and it's just now expiring. Go figure.

It made me think about all the library cards I figuratively have in my wallet at the moment. I actually went through it not too long ago and got rid of everything I didn't need anymore. But theoretically, if I still had the physical cards, I would have access to five different libraries in five different counties and two states.

I believe this says two things about me:

1) I need to stop moving so often (um, yeah).
2) I'm a complete and total nerd. Who gets a library card when you only live in a town for six months? That's right...me. Nerd.

I guess you knew the second thing, since you're reading this.

So let's chat about my nerdiness.

I already told you that I finished The Sun Also Rises. The Hemingway Party, as I have chosen to call our wine bar night, was scheduled for yesterday. However, I wasn't feeling well as the afternoon at work dragged on, so I canceled it at the last minute. Or rather postponed it. There will be wine, and it will be soon.

Instead of going out on the town for the nectar of the elite, I came home, put on sweats, and watched this:

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And then I intended to read a little of this:

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But I must admit that I was a terrible little bookworm, and I went to bed instead.

Though I've read just a few chapters of it this week (along with the introduction) I'm really looking forward to it. I like Fitzgerald's own prompting, inscribed in a friend's copy:

"If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith."

Why yes, I actually quite enjoyed The Great Gatsby and I'm intrigued by this other, very different, novel that took nearly a decade of Fitzgerald's life to write. So I'll let you know how it goes.

On a more Austin note, I'll be focusing in the next couple of months on the fun free things Austin has to offer. In part because the holidays are coming, and in part because I'm an hourly employee with a two-week break and no holiday pay, it's a great time to be conserving some cash.

Tomorrow, while the weather is still good, I want to visit the Zilker Botanical Gardens. Especially because I just did an image search and found this:

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Dinosaurs? Yes please.

Prehistoric statues aside, I drive by the garden every day and always want to stop in. Except, as previously discussed, it gets dark 2.5 seconds after I walk out the door of work. Damn daylight savings time.

I also need to go pick up a couple more books from the library, including the copy of A Handful of Dust I reserved two weeks ago as well as A Clockwork Orange. There's a banned books club that meets monthly at BookPeople. I thought I'd read this first novel and see what it's like. I've never actually been in a book club before. And I'm not sure this is the book to start with (I saw the movie for the first time a few weeks back...freaky), but oh well. Jump in feet first, right?



P.S. BookPeople is having a 40th Anniversary celebration tomorrow starting at 11:30am. Apparently there will be a magician. Love it. Might go.

P.P.S. Did you know the Ann Arbor District Library is home to one of the city's fairy doors?

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I've never actually seen it myself. Apparently the little fairy house was under construction when I lived there, and I hardly ever went to that particular branch anyway. But alas, I may seek it out on my next visit north.