This is an amusing story that only fellow Sonic-nerds can enjoy. At least, I found it deeply amusing. Let me regale you with the tale.

So anyway, I work at my university's library in the basement in a magical little place called the Preservation Department. What we do is we re-stamp older books whose stamps have worn off and put on new sticker labels with the book's call number. We also 'preserve' new books by stamping them for the first time, putting in a due date slip, put on the sticker label, and putting in a piece of magnetic tape that can trigger the security alarms if a person tries to steal a book without checking it out.

We get lots of books. We get between 100 and 200 'new' books a day; although it's only new in the perspective of our library. Sometimes 'new' books are half a century or even two centuries old. Anyways, there are some really weird books that come through sometimes. Lots of art books with disturbing imagery and technical documents with titles so long and boring that you can't help but laugh at them.

But on Friday, my friends, I stamped a book called A User's Guide to Chaos Control. Yes, it said Chaos Control on the cover. It had an image of some hot pink colored graphs rising upwards. I looked inside to see if it held the secrets of teleportation but actually it was about some engineering computer program called Chaos Control. It also showed two pictures of the authors; a scruffy looking older professor (Gerald Robotnik?) and a younger looking professor-man. (Mari...O?) What's even weirder is that the sticker for the book was wrong which means I had to flag it and now it's going to get 'bounced' back to some other department, and then come back to mine. I guess Chaos is hard to control, huh? And maybe if it actually was about teleportation somebody wouldn't have to walk it up a flight of stairs to deliver it!

I started laughing and there was only one other co-worker with me at the time. She's a girl that's quite into athletics and stuff and while she's not your stereotypical college sorority girl video games are not one of her territories. (She probably didn't even go to the Lord of the Rings Movies.) I tried explaining it to her but she just smiled and nodded and thought I was that much dorkier.

I didn't have my camera with me so I couldn't take a picture of it. I would have especially loved to have gotten a few pictures of me reading it, and then Photoshop some sort of weird glow onto me as I master the technique. I thought about maybe hiding it somewhere or writing a note "Leave Until Monday" but then I'd be messing with a system I've sworn to protect.