Monday, March 23, 2015

Homer Babbidge, Back Again, Monday 8pm-12am

I'm at the library instead of the basketball game.  I am covering my coworker's shift.  She covered my shift over the weekend, at the end of spring break.  It's the least I could do and I'm happy to have the extra hours.

The library is fairly busy.  There's a lot of foot traffic and a lot of laptop circulation.

My friend Shaheer stopped by the front desk.  His eyes were red-rimmed from lack of sleep.  Biomedical engineering major; and leader of extracurricular groups.  Recipe for red eyes.  We exchange updates and chatter about life.  He invites me to a Palestine Student Association dinner with speakers and dance performances, to be held Friday, April 3 in the Rome Student Ballroom.

I parked outside the Bookworms cafe entrance to library.  This evening, I parked in the circle, on a patch of pavement with diagonal white stripes.  I hope the parking police aren't on the prowl... hard to say with there being a basketball game.

Earlier, I parked legally - in one of the handicap spots.  Walking towards the Homer Babbidge building, both times, I envisioned an architectural remodeling of our brutish building.  Homer Babbidge Library (HBL) was built in the 1970's.  If I am someday a rich donor, I should like to see a Louvre-style glass pyramid added to the top of the building.  It would be called "The Atrium" and it would be filled with plant-life, room to stretch, and recuperate.  It would feature high-tech, collaborative, innovative, maker-spaces and a MOOC center.

The Atrium would be a great architectural improvement... and very functional.

The Spanish homework that I fretted over this morning is not due until Friday.  It will be a personal, historical account of Colorado's Black Forest Fire.  In Spanish.

Tonight, I fret over these things:
- Exam content for Linguistics (office hours 8:15am tomorrow)
- Midterm presentation (for tomorrow), handout prep
- Food System Profile: Edible Insects (not yet started!!! due Wednesday)
- Getting enough sleep

I'll leave you with some video meditations on Library Spaces:



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