January 3rd
Yesterday I did a bad thing.
(No, not forgetting my essay. I actually did finish that, believe it or not.)
Defacing public property isn't usually my style, but it somehow seemed appropriate.
Let me see if I can explain.
So that book Professor Grabiner had – "Some anomalies in interpretations of fragmentary great-appendage arthropod fossils from lower Cambrian shales" – well, turns out we've got it here. It's not actually as strange as it may seem (the fact that we have it, not the book itself, which is dry but informative).
Our library tends to not have new books. Finding anything in there published less than a decade ago means that it's either an extremely well-selling book, or else its presence there is a fluke.
Before they shut the university down, pretty much everyone used the library there, so the one in town was little used. And then, well, after it closed, we had a whole mess of textbooks to relocate. A lot of them just came here. Some good ones – useful ones – but the majority of them are too specific to appeal to most students.
Like this one.
...the point of all this was: I wrote a note in the book.
And, honestly, it's not like anyone's really going to read it anytime in the near future – the amount of dust I blew off its cover alone was appalling – and I didn't write in the book itself, and Ms. H (the librarian) even saw me doing it and just shook her head, but. Still.
It was a note of – reminders, I suppose.
In the unlikely event (I hope) that they do have to take away my magic, and my memories, too… well, I don't want that to happen. I want to retain the memories, if nothing else. So I wrote little reminders, things that might trigger memories when viewed within a book that really shouldn't be familiar.
...I think the thing bothers me the most about it is how I'm acting like some sort of conspiracy nut. (The best way to deal with this so far is to remind myself that not even half a decade ago, I had no idea that magic was real, let alone that I would be a witch some day.)
I guess it'll make an interesting story later in life, at the very least.
Gotta go. Will be spending the remainder of the day going over velocity and displacement.
-Illia
