A Fresh Start.

Ever since I moved to Philadelphia, I have always been in awe of the Free Library on Vine Street. This is the first time I have actually been inside. You know, there's really nothing like a huge, cold library. Library cards get me excited. I have a collection of library cards from different places I have lived. One time I got a library card when I was moving away a few days later.

After voting today, I decided that it was so perfectly rainy, why not go to the library to get some work done? I have plenty of reading to do for classes; fortunately I'm enjoying all of the books assigned to me.

I'm in a little room with one other desk and books surrounding me. The smell of old books that have been flipped through and put back for who knows how long should be made into a candle or something. Remember how Carrie Bradshaw initially wanted to get married in that library in New York? What a great idea.

Photo Credit:
West Special Reading Room, now the Database and Newspaper Center of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia. 1927. History of the Free Library of Philadelphia Archive, The Free Library, Philadelphia. 2002. The Free Library of Philadelphia. 4 Nov. 2008 .