Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, “A Typical Day in My Life”. I’m as-yet unmarried and as-yet still working, so my day to day is fairly predictable. I wake up at 7, make coffee, read substack and blogs, and then get ready for work. It’s at work where things get…..unpredictable. I work at an urban public library, and we get all kinds. I don’t mean a delightful mix of crotchety old bibliophiles and giddy kids, either, but a rogue’s gallery of eccentrics, cranks, and downright nuts — some dangerous. (I’m not kidding: one former ‘patron’ of ours is currently in jail for straight-up murdering a woman in a bookstore.) My day to day work varies: while I have consistent library-man things to do (monitor the computer lab, answer reference questions, conduct historical research, shelve books, fax, scan, etc), my department gets all kinds of requests. People might ask us to help them with something with their phone, for instance: one man so frequently created issues for himself on his phone that I’ve learned a lot about Android just having to search for answers. While some days it’s quiet and I can dig into old newspapers with the contentment of a nesting hamster, other days I’m asked so many questions I will eat lunch in my car just so I can steal some peace and quiet. After work, I generally go home, unless there’s some social event in town where I can pop in. Last week, for instance, I went to a historical preservation society meeting, and sometimes there are talks at the local bookstore. Since so many of my friends left town after the tornado, I don’t get to hang out with them in the evenings the way I used to. I sometimes have responsibilities like board meetings or choir practice, but generally I go home to read, listen to podcasts/lectures, and watch a movie. (Not all in the same evening, of course.)

WWW Wednesday

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Take Me To Your Leader, Neil deGrasse Tyson, as well as the full cast audio presentation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

WHAT are you reading now? I started reading Lincoln by Gore Vidal; it’s part of a series of novels he did on ‘American Empire’. It’s a fatty with small text, so I may be chewing on it a while.

WHAT are you reading next? Most likely Brad Birzer’s new release: The Declaration of Independence: A Radical Experiment in Liberty.