They'll Have to Pry Me Out of Here with an Iron Bar

5:17 AM
I have unearthed a problem.

5:18 AM
One that can be circumvented, but it is one I'd rather didn't exist. The fact of the matter is...there's no shower or bath in the library.

5:20 AM
Which, under normal circumstances, would be a reasonable lack in a public library. But right about now, the lack is highly inconvenient. I shall have to French Bathe.

5:21 AM
Sponge bathe, I mean. Not French bathe in the sense of not bathing at all, like Napoleon's Josephine. I believe in Hygiene.

5:23 AM
With a capital 'H.'

6:00 AM
Nice and clean now. Time for morning tea.

6:03 AM
I shall take an inventory of everything that the library is missing after that maniac burned the books. Then I shall devise a plan to make the city pay for replacing them.

6:10 AM
Which will be difficult. Extracting money, I mean. They're already rather shirty about having had to repair the building. Miserly little monsters, politicians. Ah, well, I'll just order everything and then send them a bill to surprise them. Perhaps they'll go down quietly due to shock.

8:04 AM
It's disastrous. I think I'm going to sink into a depression. We're missing nearly a quarter of our collection. The city's going to go berserk when I send them the bill. That'll be an exciting board meeting.

8:10 AM
Hahaha. "Exciting board meeting." Practically an oxymoron.

9:00 AM
I hate computers.

9:02 AM
And online book-sellers and everything to do with ordering things online.

9:09 AM
And people who come in asking for books that are long burnt and crushed to ashes as an offering to some maniac god. Go away. No, we don't have it. Yes, I'm quite sure. Are you aware that we had dingbats breeze through here and set the building alight? No? Well now you know.

9:20 AM
At last--peace and quiet, the kind that comes when the proper amount of people are in the library.

9:21 AM
The proper amount being 1.

9:22 AM
As in, me. And my two cats, of course.

9:40 AM
HA! At last. My orders have been placed. Books will come. I think I shall go to the grocery store and stock up on cheese and crackers. On my bike! Yes! Ooh, I have missed riding my bike. There it is, chained up outside the library even now, after so long. Beckoning to me.

9:42 AM
Ooh, everything aches... What's the point of having knees if they hurt too much to move? Wouldn't it have been kinder for evolution to just give us solid, unjointed stalks to trot about on?

9:45 AM
I've just tried to walk without bending my knees.

9:46 AM
It was not successful.

9:50 AM
It's even harder to bike without bending one's knees.

10:00 AM
Cheese! Crackers! Apples! Peanut butter! Oh, truly, these are the ingredients of ambrosia. I also got more tea. One can't have too much tea.

10:53 AM
Extracted one of the cats from the book return box. I'm not even sure how he got in there in the first place, but putting your hand through the slot was like paddling in a piranha tank until I found the key to unlock the access door.

11: 15 AM
I have arranged the backrooms of the library to my satisfaction. Now, I have to find Macy and re-hire her. All the other librarians have given notice. Not me, though. They'll have to pry me out of here with an iron bar.