Binary Chemistry

I dreamt that something on my bookshelf caught my eye as I walked by. One of the books was jumping a little, like the Mac dock items when they want to get your attention. And it was glowing softly.

It was my old chemistry book from college. The fact that this book is actually packed away in a box in the basement didn't seem to bother the continuity checkers in dream.

I opened the book and was quite surprised to see that it had been updating itself with my emails. My recent emails were appended to the front of the text of the book on matching typeset quality pages. As I was gazing at the book, a new email came in. I had just sent it that evening.

Why my chemistry book was keeping my emails, I will of course, never know. I did love that old book, if I had to choose I would say it's my favorite textbook. I loved the feel of the extra-smooth pages and it had a wonderful smell. The new textbook smell, but even better. This was the book that first taught me about moles and electron clouds, pH and Rare Earth Elements.

And now it was reading my emails. Sneaky little thing, this book.