Fran Magazine: Sunday Dispatch, Feb. 4-10

A Hard Day's Night, some New Yorker stories, and I'm back to playing Hades

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Nothing is new right now so what about a picture from when I was sitting up at the library

The concept of a university with multiple libraries sort of baffles me, having gone to a small school with one library and that was that. In grad school, I used to work out of the law school library, not because I was in law school but because it was one of few environments where I was guaranteed not to run into undergrads — let alone undergrads of mine. They were too intimidated, maybe, or they were actually not allowed, I don’t know. They didn’t bother. At my current school, there’s a whole floor dedicated to being a library in the building I teach in. Only this past fall did I learn where the real library was. Not for lack of information; I just can only keep with so many emails with so many charts and maps they send me. This semester, I’ve taken to staying at the library after class for one day a week so I can get some other work done. A real “when in Rome.” The chairs that butt up against the windows are almost always taken, but this week, one was available, and I got to do my homework for my linguistics class with this view.