The Tardis Bookstore

Today I got up early and went to several classes.  In between two, I played the harmonica while waiting, because that’s how I roll.  After class, I went back to the Minnesota Bureau with one of my friends and we hung out there a while, doing homework.  For lunch I bought a loaf of bread and a pain au chocolat for desert, which  is a sort of buttery pastry with chocolate inside.  It is pretty good.

I went to a bookstore near the Polygone shopping center, looking for a book for one of my courses.  I entered on what I thought was the bottom level of two or three, but was surprised that at the end of each floor was yet another flight of stairs leading upwards.  Browsing the immense selections of genres, I could not find the section that I was looking for.  I worked my way down the four flights of stairs to the level I entered on and asked a help desk for the section that I was looking for.  The lady informed me that it was on the bottom floor and then gestured lower.  Still lower.  I discovered that there was not only one more level left to go down, but TWO.  I had wandered into some kind of TARDIS inter-dimensional structure whose inside is more spacious than the outside.  Mind-blown.  I successfully found the section that I needed, but they did not have my book.  I was able to place an order for it, but I am not entirely sure if the guy working the computer got my email right.  I have discovered that most French people want to spell my name with a “W”, like how my German ancestors would have spelled it or would still spell it had they remained in Germany.  But, they do have my name and the gentleman told me that it should arrive in about a week.  So, I’ll check back in then just to make sure.

Tomorrow I am going to do some research in the library and also perhaps start to make travel plans for my first spring break.  I am going to go to Paris to do research on my senior thesis in the Le Bibliotheque National, or the National Library.  Also, tomorrow I am going to be going to a classical music concert with my host brother, so that should be fun.