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Know what doesn’t make sense to me? The fact that the Chicago public library doesn’t allow you to renew your books when they’re overdue. Of all the times that a person would need to renew books, it seems like that’s a rather important one!

I am also annoyed with their policy of not accepting credit cards. I mean, the library in SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI accepts credit cards - and Chicago doesn’t?

I don’t know why I’m ragging on the ChiPubLib today, except that I’m annoyed that my books are a further day overdue today and I have no way of renewing them (and I won’t have an opportunity of returning them until tomorrow). I must owe like five bucks by now.

Well, it’s the last day of the crappy year that was 2008. I don’t know about you, but I’m rather excited to put it behind me and see what the new year brings.

There’s a possibility that I may be going to graduate school this coming year. I’ve been accepted by a school in my home state; it comes down to a question of whether we want to move back to my home state or not. I’d be going to grad school for an M.A. in English, which has been one of my goals for a long, long time; I seemed to fare well in an academic environment, unlike a business/data entry environment (and here’s a place for me to share an appropriate quote: “Once humans spent most of their days doing useful things with their hands, and I realized that we were designed to get a deep satisfaction from this. As Hughes put it, ‘You have the feeling people were supposed to do this kind of work, rather than data entry, which is amazingly horrible.’” - Emily Yoffe).

So I feel somewhat inclined to do that, because I think it would suit me as a profession better than being an office flunky. Of course, I’ve been worrying that maybe it would be better for me to do something like an M.A. in Library Science - because people with that degree are surprisingly well paid.  It wouldn’t be SO BAD to actually get trained for a position where I would be making a decent salary for once in my life, would it? (Except that I think that I’m just tempermentally more suited to teaching than to something like library science which - at its heart - is mostly clerical, data-entry type stuff. *sigh*)

Well, it’s something to contemplate in this 2009. Well, not really, since I’ve been accepted to the English program and not the Library Science program. And money’s not everything, after all - but everything costs money, which always unecessarily complicates life. — Mrs. Hall

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