Why we write

Premises:
1) I like school a lot and miss it and want it again.
2) a) I like to study lots of different things and most of all I like to make connections between things.
b) The little details bog me down; I am scared of the specificity of graduate study.
3) I want to be able to make a living doing something that I enjoy.

Therefore:
I should go to library school.

Counter-argument:
What if it is boring and "not like real graduate school," being too easy/technique focused? (AKA what if it is not just all about studying lots of different and semi-arcane things and then gleefully uniting them?)

Solution:
Keep reading lots of stuff and writing about it (preferably using it indirectly, stealing its sounds and rhythms). It is OK to only have the attention span of a New Yorker article, it is OK to have wide ranging discussions that jump from physics to linguistics to cognitive science and it is OK to try to explain everything, as a way of showing how and why everything cannot be explained.

I want to funnel information through me and have it come out different and mixed up and beautiful. I want things to mean something. I just really do.