Category: Random

My Library helpers and their colleagues have some recommendations for your senior year bucket list:

• Drive up to Pinkham Notch, NH and hike to the top of Mt. Washington.
• Read a book in a subject you haven’t studied before.
• Get a Boston Public Library card! 
• Take the T and explore a new part of Boston/Cambridge
• Send a message of gratitude to a BC faculty or staff member
• Go to a theater performance
• Support a BC athletic team by going to a game
• Visit the TML Library
• Picnic in the pine preserve
• Dance dance dance!
• Visit the ICA Watershed

Have fun working through the list!

Ingesting them or generating them? The verdict is still out on the level of risk to human health. Not creating more of them would be a good goal. Key sources are synthetic textiles, car tires, and city dust according to a study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (bit.ly/IUCNPlasticSources)

❤️❤️❤️We love visitors!!! ❤️❤️❤️

There’s not enough hard data to give it an exact number, so I’d say “fairly science.” More info from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) (bit.ly/PINZ). And to really get into the evidence-based research try searching the Cochrane Library (bit.ly/CochraneBC).

France is a special place for me, because it is home to Le mur des je t’aime (the Wall of Love): bit.ly/ParisWallOfLove

I don’t get around much, but my friends in the library do, and I polled them. Here’s what they said:
Book of Mormon
Chicago (3)
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Falsettos
Fiddler on the Roof
Fun Home (2)
Gypsy
Hair
Hairspray
Hamilton (2)
Into the Woods (2)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Kinky Boots
Les Miserables (2)
Little Shop of Horrors
My Fair Lady
Phantom of the Opera
Pippin (2)
Repo! the Genetic Opera
Rocky Horror Picture Show
SIX
Songs for a New World
Sound of Music
The Boy Friend
The Music Man
The Wizard of OZ

Gum is a terrifying substance. Think of everything that can go wrong: you could choke on it, pull a filling out of a tooth or maybe even a crown, you could get it on the bottom of your shoe (which as a Wall, I am not worried about, but I sense it is one of humanity’s big fears). And… it could lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight.

No! It’s never too late to grow! Life is (by definition!) about growth. Stay open to new ideas and experiences, and growth is inevitable.

Please don’t… vaping is prohibited anywhere on campus (bit.ly/BCVapeNo) . And it is not withut health risks.

Go Eagles, all the Eagles! Eagles are the best.

Prepare for an encounter with the French legal system.

Sigh… I wish I knew. My reckless cousin the Magic 8 Ball can answer questions like that, but the answers are a little, uh, random.

I’m a Wall, not a magician… but best of luck! I can score you admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum tho bit.ly/BCGardnerTix- almost as good? LMK ?

I’m going to say “a lot” because even doing a ballpark estimate would require some information I don’t have, like how many reams of paper are lying around to feed the printers. You would also have to come up with an average page count that covers encyclopedias, children’s picture books, scholarly journal issues, maps, board game instructions, newspapers, event flyers, Post-Its, etc etc. Oh, and a meaningful average of the amount of paper in my paperphobic and paperphilic helpers’ desks. According to my friend the BC Fact Book, the BC Libraries own 3.3 million print books, have 3,170 print journal subscriptions, and just under 500,000 government documents.

YES!*

*As long as we understand that we call all goats “the goat” because they are each uniquely the greatest of all time.

Where would we be without worms? bit.ly/WormFrens Thanks for the worm appreciation.

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do. Life’s been good to me so far.