Well, there are 50 days left until graduation and the panic is setting in as I am frantically scrambling to find a job and not be “that girl” who goes to a top university and ends up working in a low-scale restaurant. Oh wait I can’t be that girl because I don’t even have that job yet. Awesome.
Anyway, counting down the days brought to my attention I have 26 things left to accomplish in a short amount of time! So on a spur of the moment jaunt, Kimberly and I ended our traditional Thursday Newcomb lunch with a little treat trip to the Special Collections Library!
The regalia of Declaration materials is housed at the bottom of the beautiful spiral staircase and, of course, guarded by busts of Madison and Jefferson. The facsimiles and actual letters from the Founding Fathers here comprise the largest collection of Declaration of Independence materials in history and are definitely exciting to look at if you’re a major American history buff. There’s also a plastic shield barricading the public from entering the actual Special Collections library where succulent miniature books (and perhaps gigantic… for everything wonderful is exaggerated) rest untouched, perhaps on four-score-and-seven-years scales. The collections after all extend throughout 12.82 miles of shelves in an underground passage not even counting the electronically restricted works. Ahh… if only I could sneak a peak at what the University is hiding down there!
In the words of the newly late Elizabeth Taylor,
“So much to do, so little done, such
things to be.”
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