Working in the library gives me what I'm calling the Anxiety of Desire to Learn. Right now I'm having to change every single subject heading "Literature, Comparative" to "Comparative literature." Oh, yes. That's my job. Database management we call it. So as I'm clicking through thousands of records and pasting over the old heading (we don't yet have a program that replaces the headings that are subdivided), I am drooling over titles and growing anxious because there's so much I want to read and can't.

Like: Romantic moods : paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790-1840 / by Thomas Pfau.

Or: The reception of English literature in Germany / by Lawrence Marsden Price

Fairly broad topics, but as I'm beginning to learn what being a scholar is about, I don't think I'll have the reason or the chance to know what the reception of English literature in Germany was in the late 1800's!

I mean, how cool is this?: The influence of Old Norse literature upon English literature, / by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby.

This isn't even considering my new fascination with reading Science magazines online and listening to Radio Lab's science podcasts. There's simply too much to know and I'm too aware of it.