Five things I didn't know about You
There’s a “Five things you didn’t know about me” meme floating around, but in honour of Time’s Person of the Year, let’s turn it around.
Five things I didn’t know about You
- Your love of libraries goes back to a childhood fascination with the drawers of the card catalogue - sliding one out, unscrewing the brass rod, shuffling the cards…
- You suspect that your pet(s) may be smarter than you, but this only stiffens your resolve not to share power
- You know how to distinguish Thomson from Thompson (or Dupond from Dupont) by the shape of their moustaches
- You have feeds in your newsreader that you will never, ever look at again, and yet you can’t bring yourself to unsubscribe
- The most humiliating moment you can recall came during that high school Gilbert and Sullivan production; but there are many others you have forgotten
And of course, I tag … you.
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Gah! How did you KNOW?
pbinkley++
.: Great post. Blog memes generally Suck Big Time, so thanks for turning it around, as it were...
[...] Now on to Kenton, Geoff, and Randy. I dare Peter to do a real one because he's just too clever for his own good, and I'd love to hear from Bess. [...]
OK, I'll meet Pam's dare in the modest obscurity of a comment: 1. In my youth I looked up J.R.R. Tolkien in the card catalogue of the London Public Library every time I visited to see if the Silmarillion had been published yet, because I didn't know any other way to track new books. 2. There was a moment in grad school when I realized, as I was working on manuscript reference tools from medieval universities, that I was becoming viscerally excited about alphabetical order, and there was nothing I could do about it. 3. I have knitted seven or eight sweaters in my life. 4. My most thrilling library moment: in the Manuscript Reading Room of the British Library, a book I'd requested arrived at my desk with a few links of its medieval chain still attached to the binding. 5. I have gone on two wadlooptochten: once to Schiermonnikoog and once to Engelsmanplaat.