Reading Day 1

I decided to spend the morning of my first reading day at the downtown public library. I didn't want to be at home and the thought of being at the law school surrounded by the ambient energy of hundreds of stressed out over-achievers was just to much. I am realizing that the public library is going to have its own hazards. When I walked into the "quiet reading room," which is more like an large open hall on the tenth floor with a great view, it was filled with hords of school children on a field day. Despite their teachers attempts to teach the children about proper library voices, they pretty much saw this place as a new type of playground. There were probably a few that were genuinely interested in the library, but the quiet one's never stand out. This problem, however was easily overcome with a pair of earplugs, and they seem to be filing out of here pretty quickly, which brings us to the second problem: visual noise. Whose idea was it to put purple, red, and turquoise spiriling Pollok-esk carpet in a quiet reading area. They don't make eye-plugs unless you consider burying your noise in the UCC as "eye-plugs" which is what I am going to try and do. I will post again later today with my thoughts on the success on my field trip downtown.