I have the best parents in the world, for all of yourses information. Mom and Dad are buying my Outdoor Pursuits clothing and boots, as long as I clean and organize our book-room. Talk about Herculean tasks...
Imagine, if you can, a bookshelf. Six shelves in all, each one stuffed with books: books standing up, books on their sides, random papers, maps, pamphlets, what have you. All around the shelves, there are stacks and stacks, some knee-high and some waist-high, of books. Now imagine six of those, in a room about the size of an average living room, about 12x14 feet. Imagine them arranged in a trident shape, with narrow paths in between the shelves, narrow due to the stacks of books on the floor. On one wall is a piano, and next to the piano are two metal cabinets with a printer on one of them. There are over a thousand books in this room, of all kinds: fiction, science fiction, history, fantasy, sword and sorcery, biology, theology, psychology, music, everything. All need to be sorted, shelved, and dusted.
THIS is my job this summer, to put up shelves, list books, and get them organized. For the task of navigating a literary labyrinth and un-labyrinth-ing it, I get stuff for Wales.
And then I'll be de-tasseling. Walking through fields of corn, pulling tassels. Oddly enough, it's a job I kinda like :)
If you need me, my nose will be in the books. Or the corn. Either one.
--Kae
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