So tell me, what the hell does this mean: I’m sitting at my desk at work today and somebody hands me a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking.

If you haven’t been keeping track, I started reading that book on Sunday. Then yesterday I officially gave up on it because it was frustrating and basically unhelpful to me. And then today it shows up on my desk again.

Now the logistics of the thing really aren’t that odd, don’t let me fool you. I work for a library and even though I don’t work in an actual library branch, we get this special service where you simply select a book you want in the online catalog and a couple days later, voila! it shows up on your desk. Plus no late fees, so for a book lover, it’s a big perk of the job. I put practically no effort into getting books these days. I think what happened is I accidentally ordered the same book twice: the first one got to me at the end of last week, the second one took a little longer to travel here.

But you have to admit it’s a little weird that I publicly denounced this book, and the very next day it shows up again. What does that mean? Should I just walk over and return the book again, or should I interpret this as a sign that there really is a gem in there that I need to discover?

It might be a little bit like torture trying to read through the book in search of this gem, but I’m going to choose to take this as a sign and at least hold on to the book for awhile. Maybe I’ll pick it up someday when I’m bored, flip to a random page, skim a few paragraphs and stumble upon something that’s not totally gag-worthy. Maybe it will even be inspiring.

Probably not, but hey, think positive right?

God I can’t believe I’ve dedicated three fucking blog posts to this damn book now!