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First, let me describe my final day at work before the holiday. I went, did a little ILL and then, when really nothing was going on, I went home. While I'm writing an important, or at least possibly important e-mail, that I don't want to discuss right now but may later, I get a call from my pastor who is also an adjunct faculty member. She needed help finding some material and wondered if I could come back. So I do; after finishing the email, of course.

When I got there, she gave me the list of books she wanted to find and made me tea and a plate of animal crackers. I actually found most of the books in our collection and was able to request the others through ILL. This was the first time I had done that for a patron, although I had done it for myself, so it was kind of cool on a certain level but all this trudging back and forth has made me a little tired. Thankfully, I can rest tomorrow...

I close on a personal note. I pleased KJ Kofsuske still checks in on my blog. I worried the situation over her blog would cause me to lose a reader...
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K.J. Kofsuske said…
The situation at my blog had nothing to do with you and everything to do with my irrational fear of being internet-stalked by a certain ex.

It took me until the second paragraph to figure out what ILL meant. D'oh
November 21, 2007 5:55 AM
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