Today, my day consisted of four things: Spanish, the library, homework, and crayons.
I woke up to my usual Here Comes the Sun 8:13 alarm clock and thought to myself, "It's cold and Spanish is dumb, so I should go back to bed". Of course, after having one of those in your head arguments, I realized this was an invalid case and got up for the typical morning routine of teeth brushing and cereal eating before the next two hours of Español. I was lucky, because I knew I didn't have to go to Spanish Lunch Tables for an hour after class with the amount of Othello work I had to do.
My luck soon ran out.
On the way back from class, I battled the winds of A-squared and headed for the Ugli. I made my way up the stairs like a popsicle, and headed to Askwith for the three and a half hour version of Othello I had to watch before writing my two page paper due tomorrow. You're thinking "woah that's a lot of Shakespeare", and I agree. But honestly, three and a half hours is one of the short ones. And I only had one video to watch this week. I'd say that's nice. Anyways, I go up to the guy working the media library and ask for the Ian McKellen version of Othello. I give him all the information I had on the film (year, actors, directors, anything I could find) and what class it was for, and waited for him to quickly grab the dvd and let me leave and watch. My teacher has this nasty habit of choosing the most obscure versions of each play, so they are hardly ever online. What a bummer. So the guy at the desk says, "uh, I'm not sure if we have that." I say "can you check?" "Oh yeah okay" (uh duh). Then he asks me to repeat the information again and decides that they have a version to watch in the library, but that it is being watched already by three people. I didn't care, I didn't want to have to sit there and watch anyways. So I awaited the time when he would realize that they must have another copy for me to take back to my dorm room and watch in my bed with animal crackers and snapple. After a lot of back-and-forths of me asking him to check and him realizing that, yeah, that's a thing, he comes back with a yellow case reading Othello Abridged. My heart sank. I knew this couldn't be it. It was only 62 minutes. There was no way. Then I had that other thought. "What if it was it?! What if I read the wrong one online?! He looked it up, he says its right!" So I grabbed the disk, said thank you, and headed out into the frozen tundra that was my campus. I got back to my room, put the disk in my computer, and saw that it was in fact the wrong version. I knew it, I just didn't want to believe it. So after waiting twenty minutes, hoping the dvd would miraculously appear in my room, I headed back to the Ugli. Back up the stairs like a popsicle, and into Askwith. The guy at the desk looked at me more confused than a pig in Alaska, and took the dvd back. He told me the one to watch there would be done in a few minutes, and I told him I'd wait.
Thirty minutes later, I was still waiting when someone from my class came in. He asked for Othello, and was told to join the club. One of the girls watching came out to say they were almost done, and I went back to waiting, this time with a partner. After five minutes, we decided to go back and see just how far they were in the film. They had just reached Act Five! He left, and I was all alone again. Then another girl came and we waited to watch together. Thank goodness. After another ten minutes, the three who had been watching came out shaking their heads. The film was long, and they didn't even bother finishing it. Guess who was excited? So we sit down to watch and are soon joined by another classmate. Clearly, we only sort of watched, sort of browsed the wonders of the internet, and really talked. A lot. We came up with our ideas for our paper, and finally finished. I'm not one to cut corners on an assignment, but I have to admit, I skipped to the good parts and got out of there as fast as possible and headed through the wind tunnel to my room to write my paper.
An hour and a half later I had finished the world's most awful paper. It was so full of singing in the shower that I felt ashamed to be writing it, but it had to be done. I finished just in time for ,y semi-mandatory Spanish tutoring. My brain was dead, but down the steps I went to hablo español.
After tutoring, I talked to my cousin. She's been asking me to go to the library with her since classes started, but it never worked out. I figured I'd spent most of my day in the library already, why not make it all of my day. So I headed out to the Ugli once again. I sat down, and realized how loud it was. I was caught in this awkward state of semi-attention to everything. My homework, other people's conversations. Everything. Of course I was surrounded by a calculus group (ah) and a group working on some Hamlet project (figures). At the mention of Horatio's name, my ears perked up like a puppy when the treat bag shakes. I was anything but productive. Oh, did I mention I forgot half of my homework in my room anyways? The sensory overload and lack of homework resulted in my leaving the library.
An hour later I finished my Spanish homework with just enough time to go to the crayon art event! I bundled back up, and headed across the howling courtyard to glue crayons on canvas and blow dry them to melt. It was so nice to be sitting on the floor surrounded by crayons, and not noisy library folk. My crayon art came out wonderisly as well. No that was not a typo. (I sort of copied another kids, but his was cool so I think it's okay.)
I know this story was kind of ridiculous and super long, but I don't care. I even had a request to write all about my library adventures. Hey, you're the one who decided to read it!
Oh and a little advice: next time you want to study or do any homework, the library (the Ugli at least) is not the place to go. Ever.
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