12.30.07

Category: dribblings

will i get my 52nd book read before the new year? well, seeing as how i’m only 30 pages in i’d say, “doubtful!” still, i’m WAY excited that i read 50 books BEFORE december. especially since i spent most of october – december knitting a blanket and a couple of scarves. if there was a way to knit and read at the same time, believe you me, there would be no stopping me from completely wasting time. but what an efficient waste of time that would be.

something else i’ve been obsessed with lately is the bound excerpts of the first 30 years of the Gadsden Times. we have them at the library. they are VERY entertaining to read mostly because the way they talked and wrote back then (late 1800s) was very different than today. not only do they use MUCH bigger words (words that i’m not even sure exist) but the paper was also very, VERY snarky…yet in a polite way. for example, one of the articles was about how some people put some kind of obstuction on the train tracks. the train hit the whatever-it-was and no one was hurt. the last sentence of the article made no sense it said something like, “the people who obstructed the train should move to another climate.”

wha?

i asked one of the other librarians to look at the article and she too was all, “what’s with the last line?”

she asked if i thought it meant they should go up north. because this was less than 10 years after the civil war. and you know, it was probably in insult to tell someone they should move up north.

i told her it sounded more like a really polite, “go to hell” to me.

after reading some more of these articles i’ve stumbled onto a really neat story. in fact, if i wasn’t lazy i could probably write a whole book about this lady. give me some time to type what i’ve found, and i think you’ll see what i mean. i don’t have the whole story yet because i was researching this at work and we had to close and it’s a reference book and i couldn’t take it. and it’s crazy cos i’m at this point where i’m all, “BUT WHAT HAPPENED?! what happened to the lady?” like i say, give me a bit to type this up. it’s AWESOME.

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