How Y'all Doin?
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Hello fellow social distancing book enthusiasts! How y'all doing? Does anyone know what day it is? What week? Is it still March?
We hope everyone is staying safe and finding ways to stay sane as we navigate this unique and scary time together.
Escape with us for a bit while Frank and Rhonda discuss how they've been holding up and the importance of structure during this time.
This week our hosts share what they've been reading while staying at home.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I am Frank. |
| 0:21.5 | And I'm Rhonda. |
| 0:23.0 | And we're here to talk to you about what we've been reading while we've been at home. |
| 0:28.9 | How are you, Rhonda? |
| 0:30.3 | I am doing well. |
| 0:32.0 | You know, I'm trying to stay connected. |
| 0:34.7 | That's my goal. |
| 0:35.9 | So I feel like I'm doing that. So so far, so good. How about you? |
| 0:40.0 | How's everything? Everything's pretty good. I'm sort of in a weird way, slipping into a, like, a lot of |
| 0:50.8 | people, like not knowing what day it is when you get up. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's sort of, I have a thing about freedom and being enslaved to something and not sort of being, it's a harsh word, but sort of being enslaved to what the weekend is, |
| 1:14.5 | what the weekday is, is sort of nice. Like, you know, it's like, oh, it's Friday, |
| 1:18.3 | I'm gonna have a cocktail. |
| 1:19.8 | And now it's like, well, it's Tuesday, have a cocktail. |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah, I mean, it's just, for me, I try to work to, like, maintain a regular schedule, you know? |
| 1:32.1 | So, like, during the weekdays, this is the time I'm going to get up, you know, these are the hours I'm going to try to do most of my work. |
| 1:38.1 | I feel like that kind of helps to not have me so disoriented about the time and the days of the week, but, you know, it's hard when you're in one place all the time. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah. I mean, I'm definitely slipping into a, like I said, which I'm sort of liking a do whatever I want, whenever I want. |
| 2:00.1 | Like, I have that sort of bratty thing in me. |
| 2:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.4 | But I am, the thing I'm stricter about is that I don't want to mess up my sleep schedule too, |
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