Argh! (Or Perhaps It Should Be "Arrrrrr!")

Going to see Pirates of the Caribbean for the fourth time was definitely a mistake. The fact that I took along a mini notebook and scribbled notes in the dark was merely the symbolic white flag of my surrender to a new #!@$$%! fandom.

( So, how long to December 2? )

So, there it is. Shiny new fandom. Curse it.

Because it was kind of neat

Gakked from vickita

( Sexy Quizzage )

Edited to fix hideous formatting, caused, as usual, by forgetting to put the second quotation mark in the tag. Gets me every time.

Then edited again because of the dash in the lj-cut tag. Not my HTML day, apparently

Nashville Public Library

Excuse me while I wax rhapsodic for a few moments about the Nashville Public Library. I know that there are places with niftier and more extensive facilities, but it's only in the last two or three years that I've realized what a godsend it is to have a kick-ass public library system.

It doesn't matter that their actual collection isn't anything as impressive as even a half-decent academic library when I can get on the Athena system, browse the catalogs of darn near every local university for books about pirates and 17th century history, and inter-library loan what I need without even getting out of bed. Much better than driving the forty-five minutes to MTSU or paying $20 a year to Vandy for a max of four visits and no borrowing priviledges (both of them are on Athena anyway :)). Public library cards are free to residents of Davidson County, so it's like getting borrowing rights to every local academic library for free. How cool is that?

(No, I'm not obsessively researching POTC, why do you ask?)