A mild plea (and parenthetical whinge)

If for some reason you have a surplus of empty full-sized CD jewelboxes, please consider donating them to your local library. You should ask them first if they really need them, but there's a good chance that they do-- at least in our local library system, an unhappy percentage of our CD jewelboxes have broken hinges and are held together with rubber bands.

Thin jewelboxes are less useful because they can't accommodate all of the inserts-- in our case, the optical barcodes are on the back insert, the RFID tag is inside it, and the cataloguing label is on the front. When the back insert is the only one left, it's possible to stick a cataloguing label onto it and cram it into the front of a thin jewelbox, but it doesn't quite fit unless partially folded over and taped in, which tends to obscure whatever information is near that margin (usually the track list).

[I seem to have become the unwilling guardian dragon of the CD collection of the library I'm volunteering at, which has been laboring under nasty budget cuts.( semi-OCD whinge )

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ow

...I have got to break the habit of chewing off my fingertips (not the nails down to the quick, but also the surrounding bits of flesh around the corners/edges) while watching DVDs.

The only upside is that once the fingernails are down to the bleedy point, it hurts too much to keep using them to peel open the intermittent "doujinshi translation injury" on the inside of my thumb. On the other hand, if I peel off too much of my left thumbnail, I can't use it to finish off beadwork until it grows back.

(It's a poorly-formed writing callus around the joint which gradually thickens until it spontaneously cracks open, unless I can thin it down first by either removing layers (which tends to overshoot down to non-dead skin) or applying various ointments (which takes forever). It isn't always the result of transcribing/transliterating/glossing doujinshi with pen onto paper, but that's the general correlation. I don't know what started it this time, but it's been hanging around for the last few months. I figure that if it's already there anyway, I might as well find another doujinshi to work on, esp. since "Ryuha 2" has started to show up on eBay (though judging from Yamaguchirow's recent plot trends, I might not actually like it :| )