With regards to the books:
I didn't take them out all at once; the McGill library system allows you to renew each book an unlimited number of times so long as the book isn't requested. The books are in various places around my apartment, occupying a couple shelves and intertwined in a few different stacks. Not a single one of the books is for a class. The majority are books of poetry, or books on poetry, so I haven't tended to read them through cover to cover (though many of them I have); many others are essays where I was primarily interested in only a couple of the essays in the original book (I could post the list of books if someone wanted. I already did so on Facebook). I also just tend to get books out of the library in spurts -- having read something I'll do research on the author, the genre, the style or whatever, and search for books which it seems I might be interested in based on that.
May, my apartment is home to well over a thousand books, I would imagine. The 80 books from the library certainly isn't a problem. Also, the library has 2,590,743 print books right now, not counting journals.
Anyhow, I found out this afternoon that I got the extension I needed, and I think I should be able to make things work out. Hopefully. Just need to push through these next three weeks and I'll be done with my BSci. Plenty of time to come to terms with Problems and stuff then.
JC, let's talk some time.