Nooks and Crannies

It's finals time up here at St. Lawrence as well. While I only have one actual final, my other classes compensated by assigning lots of essays due over the next week, which is definitely less stressful but definitely more work. Indeed, got a 12 page research paper for American Politics due at 5:00 this evening, hence me sitting in the library at 10 AM on a Friday.

The library, however, is swiftly growing on me. It's sort of the architectural equivalent of sweat pants: ugly as hell, but fairly cozy. It's a massive building, full of vibrantly painted study rooms, trees, these odd elevated cubicles in which you have the interesting opportunity to be bored and procrastinating 10 feet above everyone else, and ridiculously comfortable and numerous couches and armchairs. There may some books as well. Seriously though, some enterprising soul took it upon themselves decades ago to scatter vast numbers of lounge chairs in unlikely corners of our library, and I shall forever be in their gratitude. So here I am, surrounded by microfilm that I seriously doubt ever has been or will be disturbed, the ugliest carpeting the 70's could dredge up, bombshelter-esque cement walls, and, redeemingly, a huge window allowing me to look at the snowstorm dancing outside. It's actually quite nice to sit here and procrastinate, listening to my atmospheric Icelandic music and wondering where the hell that photocopier sound is coming from. I just wish the motion-sensor lights would quit shutting off.