Tomorrow

is the Tompkins Public Library Book Sale. They usually have something like 200,000 books for sale (most expensive book being $4.50), and this year they’re said to have over 350,000 books. Where do you think two dissertation-beginning Ph.D. students will be tomorrow morning? 🙂 We love buying books, and now more than ever we have a reason to hunt for them!

I agree with Sydney, however; the effort of coordinating two people’s goals and schedules on a daily basis is far more than we bargained for when we got married. Sydney suggested taking a low-key approach to the book sale: “whenever one wakes up, that one prods the other one and gets things going.” I, thinking that this was a perfect recipe for me not sleeping (“Is it time yet? Did I oversleep?”), countered with, “Okay, so when my alarm goes off at 5 I’ll prod you!” Yeah, sometimes I think back on the simplicity of the single life, when I got up early and scheduled my day (and when Sydney got up and, well, whatever it was that he did to make stuff happen), and long for that time. I can honestly say it’s the only thing I really miss about pre-married life. Oh yeah, and the ability to chew gum without Sydney covering his ears and shrieking “Ack! Such horrible sounds!”