So, I'm writing this blog on my new Acer laptop. Well, the laptop isn't exactly mine, but for the next two to three weeks, I am going to treat this laptop like it is a precious little diamond encrusted baby, because over my dead body will I have to pay for damages on a loaner laptop from Future Shop.
While my HP laptop is out for repair (for the millionth time!), I am stuck with this loaner computer. I am super frustrated with this laptop because the clicker things on the mouse pad are so difficult to click and my screen keeps zooming in and out! Ugh. How useless!
I haven't blogged in a while, so I guess I'll talk about my day... Errm...
Well, I started my photography project today. I'll spoil my idea and reveal that for my project, I'm choosing to photograph every version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in every language that it has been translated into. I found... eight versions, I think, at the VPL downtown. I know that it has been translated in forty-two different languages, so... I've got like, thirty-four more languages to go... yay... I'm not exactly sure where I'd find the others in town. I still have lots of time though. Anyway, it took me five billion hours to find them all because it is fricken hard walking around in the multilingual section trying to find "Hali Bote" ("Harry Potter" in the Chinese section) books.
While I was searching for Harry Potter books in the German/Deutsch section, I noticed a man looking at books beside me. I didn't think anything of it until I saw him in the Korean, Hindi, Japanese, French and Chinese sections, too. He made it seem like he was looking for a book, but honestly, he did not look like he could read five different languages. I was kind of creeped out and paranoid that he might be following me, so I went to sit down at a computer in the center of the library. Luckily for me, the guy followed me there. I don't know if he was trying to be suave or whatever, but he just hovered around me, walking back and forth behind me. He stopped three times, behind me, so that he could look over my shoulder. I was actually super freaked out. I started to shake a little bit. So, I phoned my brother, who also happened to be at the library (go figure) and he came to the computer lab to sit with me. He knows tae kwon do! Hahaha. But yeah, I was actually more terrified than I am making it seem. I kind of wanted to cry a little. After a while, I thought that the man had left the library, so I decided to go back into the multilingual section so that I could find more Harry Potter books and what do you know! He was back and this time, even my brother (who I had made my bodyguard) noticed that the man was following us. He walked into the next aisle and peeked at me through the bookshelves- no joke.
Eventually, I got so freaked out that I walked up to a security guy and told him that I thought someone was following me. UNfortunately, security was very unhelpful- oh, except for when he told me that my shirt was wrinkled and that he could see my bra. YES. What the fuck, I know. In the end, I just felt perverted and more afraid. They said that they could not really do anything to the man because he had left the premises when he saw me talking to security and because the man hadn't spoken to me. Ridiculous.
After that, I was too afraid to go outside, so I got my dad to pick me up.
Yeah, I don't think that I'll be at that library for a while.
