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Here, at least, I think I’ve refrained from typing my university’s name. I’m safe! This silly and somewhat humiliating entry shall be hidden (to a degree) from overzealous google-ers.

I managed to have an adventure of sorts in the law school. I went on a quest for some books and was frustrated at practically every turn.

Problem Number One: finding the floor that the books were on.

First, I shall start by saying that I’ve been to the law library or what I thought was the law library countless times. I pictured it, incorrectly, as a pretty place of two stories inside the law school. In truth, it’s 5-ish disconnected-ish stories of wonder. I never thought of it as a place to get books - just as a sweet somewhere, open late, with a good atmosphere for studying.

But, today, I had to get books and to do that I had to find a floor, the mysterious L1, whose very existence was previously unknown to me. I began my adventure by trooping up to the second floor of the law school. The library’s reading room is there; it’s public look-at-how-beautiful-I-am non-book-heavy show room is there. So from this grand open space (somewhere on the second floor), I took the elevator down two floors to L1. Even though, this elevator stops on the first floor of the law school & even though one can enter the elevator on this floor - one cannot press the L1 button and have it go down to L1 from this floor (>_<). In order to get to L1, one has to either go, first, down the stairs to L2 or ,first, up the stairs to the second floor (not to be confused with L2). From there one can take the elevator up or down to L1. Right - so after I found the respective elevators and figured all of that out, I emerged on L1.

Once on the correct floor, I made it to where my books were a-okay due to my beautiful navigation skills. Nevertheless, I was greeted with this (some sort of strange puzzle-in-a-video-game lever system):

And while one would think that simply turning the lever in a certain direction would be enough to get the shelves to move - that’s not quite it. There are these inconspicuous red things on the shelves’ sides that must be pushed first. However, the red thing on the desired shelf may not allow itself to be pushed in if the red thing on a shelf a few over isn’t and this may throw off those who learn by trial & error and attempt to figure out everything on their own.

At any rate, after I got the shelves to move - no simple task, I assure you - I walked down a terribly narrow aisle with sides that loomed tall and threatening - as if they’d come closing in at any minute and squish me - anyway, once inside and so~ close to the book that I had worked so hard to find, I saw that this desired book was up far too high (despite the label claiming that it was on a “lower shelf”). It’s hard to tell from the photo but those stacks are quite tall.

So, I had to find a ladder.(>_<) Have no fear that once I got the ladder, climbed it, and grabbed my desired book - I also grabbed all of those around it that looked as though they have something to do with what it is that I’m writing about. After wasting such a vast amount of time fighting to get to books - I decided that I was entitled to as much book bounty as I could carry away. ^^;

Blog time = over. Back to work, back to reading about Alexander Hamilton (♥ ♥ ♥)… It’s after 3:00am. Oh dear~