\t\t\t\tAnother first-in-a-while excursion finds me at the Rose Main Reading Room for the first time in maybe 2 years. It does not enchant me like it used to, but then nothing does, save, perhaps for PRAY. She is why I am here, to research a single footnote I spotted in an online book excerpt, one of those things where you get snippets of a book minus a majority of its surrounding content, in this case a bibliography. So I have to come to the library to get the book to get the footnote so I can go downstairs and wrestle with the microfiche machine, a beast I had a lot of trouble with the last time I used it, though to be fair it had probably been over 25 years since my last use of those things, at which time I was a virtuoso of the contraption.<\/p>\n
I walked here, as is my wont, and the wind on the bridge was making my wheeze in minor agony. I hate being in the rain more than being in the wind but man, high winds feel like a giant tongue trying to lick me out of its mouth.<\/p>\n
I remember stepping outside when Sandy was increasing in strength, just to feel her. She was mean. It was like flame and nanosands peeling away my face and body.<\/p>\n
At the library, yes, the SASB, which does not stand for Soprano\/Alto\/Soprano\/Bass. We live in such modern times that to access a single page from a book at this august institution takes at minimum 45 minutes but probably longer. I should have just followed the other option, which was to buy a copy used for $8.99 + $3.99 shipping. For $13 I could have that single page and its footnote delivered straight to my front door, versus spending $5.50 in subway fare and two hours of my day getting it here.<\/p>\n
Alright, I\u2019m not as irate about this as it might sound. Instead of sitting here being pissy I\u2019m going to look for PRAY yet again in this building. I know her to be here already but I\u2019m going to see if she double-dipped.<\/p>\n
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