Posted by
AJH on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 7:00:16 PM
While downtown I stopped at the Willamette University Library (Hatfield) and found an interesting allotment of new (at least to this library) books. Among the cooler ones was Soviet Posters by Maria Lafont. Two other less thrilling works, but of particular interest to me, were Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff. The university is on such a weird schedule that it always hard to tell what will be open and when. I guess the kids are still on winter break. Very odd, indeed.
I made my way to State Capitol to find a proctor for my exams of online classes. It is such an inefficient system that some teachers use. Too many of these professor-types are just punks when it comes down to it. A lot of them, librarians included, would have made good SS officers. One cannot go into the State Library and use a computer without showing some government identification. I don't know what the think I may do or what others have done, but when I enquired a few months back I was told it was private and could not be disclosed to the common man such as myself. Gestapo librarians really get me going, claiming the support the First Amendment and all. A bunch of major-class hypocrites.
At any rate, I completed four of the five “quizzes” I set to blast out of the water. All went well except one, the stubborn no. 2, which is about some reading in a book on composition and graphic design. This means I will have to return again next week by Jan. 20th to complete the second one on time. Not a big deal, but I was hoping to have them all out of the way, so there would be no need to worry until a few weeks from now.
AJH