Meowz
I've been trying to find a copy of A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.
I've been spending all of my days at the bright, white, sterilized lab writing lines of code while wearing the standard issue lab coat with gloves. In addition, 'Bleep Bloop' noises can often be heard in the background at SAFL.
Oooh, I wish.
It's true I've been doing nothing but coding, but St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, being a hydraulic laboratory, is very humid, hardly new, and darker and dirtier the farther you go down into its recesses. There's also worn asbestos floor tile in my office, and my life will only be saved once the University decides that they have time to re-finish the floor.
It's still a great job. However, I still haven't had a summer vacation, so I have no choice but to retreat into the scapes and adventures held in those things which I cleverly call books. Luckily, I live next to two used books stores. Unluckily, I am plagued by three book compulsions:
I've been spending all of my days at the bright, white, sterilized lab writing lines of code while wearing the standard issue lab coat with gloves. In addition, 'Bleep Bloop' noises can often be heard in the background at SAFL.
Oooh, I wish.
It's true I've been doing nothing but coding, but St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, being a hydraulic laboratory, is very humid, hardly new, and darker and dirtier the farther you go down into its recesses. There's also worn asbestos floor tile in my office, and my life will only be saved once the University decides that they have time to re-finish the floor.
It's still a great job. However, I still haven't had a summer vacation, so I have no choice but to retreat into the scapes and adventures held in those things which I cleverly call books. Luckily, I live next to two used books stores. Unluckily, I am plagued by three book compulsions:
- I am frightened of used books. While I will read a used book if a gun is put to my head (even if that gun is poverty [I make the best metaphors in the world]), I prefer to be the first one to read any book that I read. I cannot possibly justify this phenomenon.
- I must own any book I read. Whether I want to own many books because I like to use them as some sort of intellectual trophy, or that I just want to look deceptively well-read, I must own anything my eyes grace.
- I despise when books take on graphics of the movies that are based on them. If I'm going to read Harry Potter, I'd rather not see the face of Daniel Radcliffe looking far too serious for the spirit of the series. If I'm gonna read A Series of Unfortunate Events, please let it be so that I don't have Jim Carrey's gawk forced upon me. If I'm diving in the Lord of the Rings, spare me Viggo Mortensen with that look of his that makes women lactate for some reason.
I was at Target last night with Marie and saw Hitchhiker, but its cover featured characters from the movie. One of my roommates owns the book, but my roommates are dirty, so cancel that. I live next to a library, but I would rather probe the used book stores (cringe).
Barnes and Noble, here I come?
"ma'am"
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