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February 01, 2000
Watch it, I'm cranky
I don't feel well. Barry's had the flu off and on for about three weeks, and when he first started sniffling and coughing, I followed him around trying to catch the germs, so I could get sick and get it over with. The germs, however, had other plans. They just toyed with me, waiting for the right moment to strike. Waiting for me to be so busy that I can't possibly stay home. Today's the day.
The semester starts today, so we have loads of students coming back with all sorts of problems. Books they checked out that were due in September, that they are being billed for. Books they checked out and lost. Books they checked out and lent to their girl/boyfriends, then they broke up, and the girl/boyfriends have thrown the books away.
And questions. "Do you have a list of all the books I read last year?" (Why would we ever want to make a list like that?!?) "I need a book from Reserve." "What book?" "I don't know." "Which class is it for?" "I don't know." "Do you know the author?" "No... can you get the book for me? I'm in a hurry."
And we're way behind on Reserve processing, because professors are still giving us lists and lists of books to be fetched from the stacks and ordered from vendors. So I have no time to be sick. We'll be shortstaffed after Friday (a really annoying coworker is leaving -- moving cross-country, in fact. Yay!) so I won't be able to be sick for quite a long time.
I don't even have any fun links to give you, since we had a very long and rambling staff meeting all morning. Sorry. I'm going to feed my crabby self some lunch now. You know what would cheer me up? Sending me email.
Well, I've had lunch and I'm a little happier (A Cadbury Creme Egg in the lunchbag helps a whole lot) and I found an interesting link, courtesy of Stee:
If you're undecided on who to vote for, you can take this test to find out which candidate best suits you. I took it, and got somebody I haven't actually heard of -- David McReynolds. Who? Ralph Nader was a close second, then Al Gore, ugh. Hmmm...
Posted by Mary Ellen at February 1, 2000 06:23 PM