Due date: SEPTEMBER 16, 1997

I'll finally return my hometown library's copy of INTO THIN AIR this weekend. Assuming they still have an "anonymous bin" to dump overdue books into. A DECADE overdue. Damn. JUST in case they try to track down who I am, i'll be disposing of the due date card...the less evidence, the better. Funniest thing is...I've still yet to read the book. But last night, I realized I had a paperback copy, too, so I decided this would be a nice time to do some further personal streamlining. Oh, yeah, and also do the right thing by returning the book. Mind you, I still have FOUR other town library books...dating back even further...to 1993. I'm stunned I've gotten away with this for so long. Someone there clearly isn't doing their job. I also find it amusing I was reading a 1960s-written PRESIDENTS AND THEIR WIVES at age 20 for summer beach leisure. My friends mocked me for that. Hey, I DID balance it out with my John Grisham and Entertainment Weekly. What can I say...i'm an intellectual, insatiably curious genius...right?