Home, sweet library
It's 4:51 in the afternoon, and I'm not in the law library. A strange sense of guilt hangs over me. As though it misses me and wants me back.
Library, I will return to you. I promise. I know it's only been three weeks, but I think we really have something special going on. Maybe it's that quiet hush you get after I settle down into the chair in my favorite corner. Or perhaps it's the way your air-conditioning vents blow a cool breeze across the back of my neck. When I walk the echoing, concrete floors of your stacks, I am not frightened (even though it's the perfect place for serial killers to lurk), because I know you are with me.
Still, I need space. Sunlight. Fresh air. It's not that what we have isn't good. You're the best library I've ever had, baby. Don't be mad at me. You know I won't be gone for long.
Library, I will return to you. I promise. I know it's only been three weeks, but I think we really have something special going on. Maybe it's that quiet hush you get after I settle down into the chair in my favorite corner. Or perhaps it's the way your air-conditioning vents blow a cool breeze across the back of my neck. When I walk the echoing, concrete floors of your stacks, I am not frightened (even though it's the perfect place for serial killers to lurk), because I know you are with me.
Still, I need space. Sunlight. Fresh air. It's not that what we have isn't good. You're the best library I've ever had, baby. Don't be mad at me. You know I won't be gone for long.
Labels: Law School, Library
posted by Bekki at 4:48 PM
21 Comments:
maybe I'm just getting old an cynical... but if this is really the replacement for Tom and Armen, N&B is crashing and burning. And that's a damn shame.
I can't comment on whether you're getting old and cynical, but this was obviously a pretty boring post. :( I'm not sure what interest the rest of the Boalt community could possibly have over Bekki's pseudo-sexual attachment to the law library.
That's a little harsh. Still, I don't think I was this intense as a 1L.
Where is the library air conditioned?
i'm with 7:36. are you hiding an air conditioning vent from us?
If Tom and Armen are your gold standard for insightful commentary, you lead an impoverished reading life, 5:53. This post was a breath of fresh air, frankly. A release from Tom's blowhard, pseudojudicial attempts at Captial-W writing. It has a voice, god forbid, and a gentle sense of humor. Write on, Bekki. Don't let these blunt-brained asswipes scare you off.
Come on guys, can we give new bloggers at least a 10 post handicap? My first posts weren't criticized because I'd get 3 hits a day back then. Just ease up a bit.
With that said, what kind of a psychopath misses the library a week into school? You're not even supposed to know how to get to the library. Are you already source collecting for your journal? Stay away from slave shops that make you work so hard!!! And who the hell goes outdoors into the sun during college football Saturday? You need to be at La Vals, downing pitchers, and mocking the SEC. D.O. needs to do something about this. These rabid 1Ls are killing our rep.
(Sorry about being harsh, I just can't stand the dweebs who end up stressing themselves silly studying in the library. The anxiety pheromones in the air were enough to make me want to avoid that place at all costs. As an aside, this is what a Tom Fletcher library post looks like).)
If Bekki wants to write journal-type entries about her personal attachment to the law library, that's up to her. Just don't expect us to continue reading.
To amplify Armen's point, who the hell feels guilt for not being in the library, period? Other than source collection, there's no damned reason that you have to be there ever, and you can do most source collection without the library. The only reason I can think of for going there now, at the beginning of the semester, is to avoid besuited 2Ls grousing about OCIP hell and comparing notes to see which are the firms with the most awkward interviewers.
Is there air conditioning anywhere in our school? I've been sweating my ass off these past couple of weeks.
Um, perhaps Bekki doesn't actually miss the library, but rather is commenting on the fact that 1L year sucks and is a lot of work?
I'm pretty sure the target audience of this blog knows that 1L year sucks and is a lot of work, and would just as soon not be reminded of it.
I need to make one thing clear: Bekki's post is great because it's eliciting strong reactions from those of us who are normal and the frenzied librarophiles. Did I mention I hated studying int he library?
For those of you who are too young to know or remember, we had a whole fight clubrary incident. First we got this e-mail, and then this craigslist ad filled in the details. Seriously people, AC vent or not...stay the hell away from that place.
Bekki, don't let the bastards get you down. Blog on.
Bekki, like most commentators, should measure success by how much she gets flamed. By the looks of it, she may be nearly as successful as Tom by the end of her Boalt days.
I could mention that I spent yesterday drinking for free and then went down to the Parkway to see the Simpson's movie. And didn't actually miss studying one bit.
Instead, I'm going to sit back and giggle at all the people who took this post literally and failed to realize that the post was loaded with sarcasm.
If anyone wants to flame me in person, I'll be in the library the rest of the day.
I thought it was a fine, fine post. It also reminded me why I go nowhere near the library.
Wait, there's a NEW Mexico???
Keep blogging Bekki, I doubt a non-ocip thread has been read this must since the trustafarian incident.
Speaking of which, what ever happened to that guy (trustafarian)?
We have a library?
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