Aaaagh...

I am supposed to be doing homework, but the subject material is so exceedingly boring that I cannot keep my mind from straying long enough to read a whole sentence.  I can sit on the couch for HOURS concentrating on making continuous uniform interlocking loops with hooks and needles, yet I cannot concentrate on this crap for more than a minute without breaking into random daydream. This class is called "Research Methods and Analysis".  I can, indeed, confirm that it is as boring as it sounds--but so far very easy.

I am starting to hope that this whole library school thing leads me toward a career outside of the library some day.  I don't like working with the public.  Every day it verifies for me that the fate predicted by the movie Idiocracy is very accurate and inevitable.  Maybe I can work as a cataloger or in another branch of the library in which employees get to enjoy a quiet, peaceful working environment (because this is certainly difficult to find at the reference desk in the public library, contrary to popular belief) and weekends off.  And the ability to maintain wide-eyed idealism about the good of people and the importance of the library.

I am constantly dreaming up ways in which I can somehow get away from working [for the man] altogether.  Some have been:  start a hippie commune, become a hermit, become a hobo hopping freight trains,  build a shack to live in with oil lamps, outhouse and garden,  be an author [Oliver says I should do this, but I have no ideas what to write about.  I prefer to ramble in journal format], travel around the country with the renaissance festival selling handmade wares.  So far I am leaning toward the commune or being a hobo.