Grey Cup Fever

November 23, 2002

Are you ready for some football? The Grey Cup game is being played in Edmonton this year and our own green and gold are in the running! Go Esks!! [to my friends and relatives in Saskatchewan: What the hell was I supposed to do? Wait around forever?]

And now, the soliloquy of a librarian working a Saturday reference desk shift:

“Oh! Am I still stuck in this jail?
This God-damned dreary hole in the wall
Where even the lovely light of heaven
Breaks wanly through the painted panes!
Cooped up among these heaps of books
Gnawed by worms, coated with dust,
Round which to the top of the Gothic vault
A smoke-stained paper forms a crust…
The junk of centuries, dense and mat -
Your world, man! World? They call it that!”
(J.W. Goethe, Faust, Part One, 1808: 398-409)

Just joking, obviously. I think weekend service is A-okay[ that’s “eh” okay if you’re Canadian). Although, if it was the Grey Cup Sunday shift, well…there might be some issues…

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