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Instead of sleeping I emptied the office, mailed all the books I’m taking (I left a few desk copies, primarily intro and con law books, and some old college textbooks), and brought the rest of the junk home. Hopefully SLU doesn’t come after me for the monitor that I bought and paid for years ago (when 19” LCD monitors weren’t exactly cheap) but they stuck an inventory sticker on anyway.
Next project: start packing books, CDs, and DVDs around the apartment. Not sure how much I’ll get done before I leave for State College on Wednesday morning, but I figure I ought to at least give it a try. I also have to make time for some NCAA Football 08 on Tuesday after I go and pick it up (All Pro Football 2K8 also looks tempting, but that will probably have to wait until after the move).
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2 comments:
You’re probably keeping too many books for no good reason. Unless they’re marked up with extensive marginalia, textbooks, especially survey texts, used to go with me from office to office only to remain unopened. And that was before everything worth knowing was searchable online.
You’d be surprised how often I have to grab something random off my shelf to answer a student’s question (or to figure out something I’m doing). Most of what I’m taking with me aren’t undergraduate textbooks anyway; either they’re books I use in class as texts, journals that are hard to get in JSTOR (I keep all of my copies of Political Analysis), or references that I can’t replace with Wikipedia.
Plus many (but not all) of the books represent sunk costs. Terrible reason I know, but what can you do? I did kill off several hundred books when I left Jackson two years ago.