I am taking a break from typing the title of my paper to make a brief remark about an email I just read on the student listserv. Some girl sent out an email saying she really needed to get the Vagina Monologues, and she had seen it had just been checked out of the library, but she "REALLY NEEDED IT." I have seen this many times before, with people saying that they absolutely had to get a book that was checked out because they had a paper to write. "African Post-Colonialism" or something like that. My point is, why the hell else would someone check out a book like that if they didn't need it as much as you do, asshole? I don't go to the library at 9:00 at night and check out "Mayan Lesbian Art from 1200-800 B.C." for a casual read by the fireside. I'm probably procrastinating more than you are, I just had the common sense to beat the after-O.C. rush to the library to check my book out. That being said, I don't check books out of the library because I don't take classes that require research outside of the class readings. I could be more critical about these students' sloppy registration skills, but it's self-evident in the fact that I get to blog all day and they are in the library surrounded by "Civil War Era Poets" and "The Evolution of the Senses."
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