'Tis Saturday, 'Tis True

Hello from the Merriam Park Library in lovely St. Paul, MN! Warmer and sunnier today, with a chance of couch napping later this afternoon. Around me several people are also surfing the Net, as they call it, and they keep slapping my hand away as I attempt to stroke their hair and tell them what wonderful souls they all are. I like libraries. They are cool. I worked in the massive Rolvaag Library at St. Olaf for two years before graduating to the desolate world of non-library employ. Do you know about Ole Rolvaag? He wrote "The Giants in the Earth" a hundred years ago. It's a about a lonely couple living out on the prairie in the frontier times and how they slowly go crazy and his wife thinks the wind whispering through the prairie grass is actually the sound of giants wielding scythes or something. I haven't read it, but maybe you should. I was the recipient of the Rolvaag Fiction Award once, long ago, and I'm still living off the enormous $100 prize money.

I wish I had a big Victorian house, and in that house was a library and in that library a hot tub and in that hot tub I would sit reading fiction and sipping orange soda.

Now, I must go wander the stacks and pull out random books to peruse. Have a good one, my little bookworms.