Today on my lunch break I actually left the building and went to the Main Library. It’s huge and lovely and filled with vagrants. It’s a place where you can loiter for free all day, you can rest your feet and your body and read books, and as long as you remain civil, no one will bother you, provided you don’t snore too loudly.

I really love the libraries in this city, and should go there more than I do. I paid my forty cent fine and checked out a couple of books, then reserved another at the Mission branch.

If I had the time, I would look at Japanese architecture and design books, or read etymology dictionaries, or trashy novels I couldn’t spend money on.

Very grey outside today, dark and damp. I am tucked into my cubicle at work, which I cleaned and redecorated yesterday. My desk and mouse were getting kind of grimy. Papers needed recycling. I thumbed through some year-old magazines I found and tore out what I think are interesting photos and drawings from old ad campaigns. I turned my empty bottle of POM juice into a bud vase for some white tulips this morning. Prettyness makes Jane happy at work!

Oooh, almost five.