This week I have been neck-deep in books,
but through hard work and dedication I have begun to see the light at the end of
it all. The center of my workroom has boxes everywhere that I have made it through,
but I still have the Civil War books to get though, which is another five or
six boxes. It is not that I am dreading the work, I just want to make sure I
get it all done in a timely fashion. The work can be mind-numbing at times
though. All I do is open the front of each book and find out the basic
information like the title, author, publisher, and date it was printed. While
it can get stale after a while, I do enjoy the work environment. Straight out
of the window next to me is the city plaza building. On the top of which is a
construct built to resemble a sail catching wind, very appropriate for the kind
of books I’ve been going through.
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Me holding a copy of Jack Friend's West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay
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My co-workers also keep work
interesting with our occasional talks on comic books or movies. Tonya works in
the same room as me and she is going through a collection of Mardi Gras, and diseases
and disaster newspaper clippings. She stops occasionally to share something
interesting she reads, like just now we stopped to talk about the large amount
of deaths by yellow fever in the late 1800’s around the area (super happy, fun
topics like that). People should keep more newspaper clippings on dog shows, or
cute baby pictures, that would be a nice break in the action. I also appreciate
my co-workers for keeping me from becoming socially awkward in the course of a
workday. In this job, it would be easy to go the entire day without talking to
anyone, so I might forget how to “people.”
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