Refreshing...

http://outofprintapparel.com/blog/2010/found-britains-smallest-library/

This is a really great idea. I hope that more people realize the significance of community-centered education facilities like this one... even if it is just a phone booth.

My mom is currently trying to restore the library that used to be a block away from the house where I grew up. It was one of the reasons my parents chose the house, as they had two young children who would benefit from such close access to so many books. The building is called the Carnegie Center, and was initially set up to be a library because of funding donated from the legacy of Andrew Carnegie.

Soon after we moved there, however, the center was turned into part children's museum, part art museum... also an important community asset, but less popular. Now, almost 15 years later, a committee, including my devoted mother, is working to give the center back its original function.

Seeing as how our current city library is located in a strip mall, with hours that don't accommodate anyone, due to a lack of funding, a library in an old, beautiful building that was supposed to be a library in the first place would be extraordinarily refreshing.

Self Control

After my Aristotle class this morning, I forced myself not to go buy a copy of Joyce's Ulysses. It was hard... so very, very hard.

After having had approximately 2.5 classes on Aristotle's theory of self-control in the Nicomachean Ethics, I felt it was time to use some of that newly acquired knowledge. But... why did it have to be for a book!?

If I don't have Ulysses by the end of the week, I'll be surprised... and really quite proud of myself.