with being a librarian is, well, you tend to want to keep the books. We love books. And sometimes, yes, even librarians, keep the books a bit too long. So I racked up some fines at the public library, enough that I couldn't check out books, CDs, Kindle books, audiobooks, or download songs. I'm a pretty decent library user--I do all those things. Fortunately, they are doing something through December 31st that was really helpful to me: they're allowing people to 'read off their fines'. Basically, for every hour you read, you can get up to $8 forgiven. You must do it in the library. Tonight was the only night I could do it, as Christmas weekend was a busy time of book moving and I have appointments two days this week in the evening. I had an appointment today, actually, but I was out around 5 pm, so I went over to the library and registered, taking a book I have out from them, 'Pioneer Girl: An Annotated Autobiography' by Laura Ingalls Wilder. And I read. And read. I started at 5:30 and went until 8 pm, and got everything forgiven. (I even read a little longer than I had to). My legs fell asleep because I was reading at a table, sitting in a wooden chair, but no matter. What does matter is that I have a clean slate, which is good, as I have no money at the moment to speak of, much less to spare for fines. Thank you, Lexington Public Library!
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