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DAY 153

Okay, so not the most interesting subject matter, I know.  But when it’s 2 am and your still at the library juggling two massive research papers–one on Nietzsche and Buddhism and the other on Oscar Wilde’s homosexuality and that relation to the gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and you’ve been there since 3 in the afternoon–well, you’re not thinking very clearly, and you get bored. So I opened a new page, wrote some random gibberish to clear my mind, and took photos of the boring objects around me.

This is my ID card. Apparently, if you want to hang out in the library after midnight, you have to prove that you are a UMW student, and then they give you a numbered sticky which you turn in on the way out. During finals week when the entire campus packed up their dorms and officially moved in to the lib, security decided to reduce, reuse and recycle by putting numbers on clothespins. Okay, sure.  That’s fun. Low budget?

It’s actually quite easy to beat the system and manage to avoid getting a number if you really have this burning desire to hang out in the library with a bunch of college students reading so furiously they are going prematurely blind, writing so fast that writer’s cramp has become an actual disease.  Yes, that sounds like the pinnacle of a wild night out.  I don’t see why you wouldn’t want to sneak into the library.  But I guess they have to protect their precious books or something.

So the late-night, stressed-out, mid-paper-writing photography thing might be a fail. That’s okay. The papers weren’t. Solid B+ and A- respectively. I can live with that.

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