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And so I'm giving you something to entice you, here are a couple of YouTube clips:

I've had it.

Didn't really start working for over an hour today. First I picked up my invoices and went to the business office across campus. One of the inmates employees of the business office had a stroke last weekend, so I wanted to ask how she was doing. This led to twenty minutes of talking about powers of attorney, the exact nature of this co-worker's stroke and her condition, and stuff like that. I finally turned my invoices in and came back to the library to find Diane at the front desk, and she and I talked at the front desk for almost an hour. Mostly about her trip, but also her dog and her daughter, who's due any day.

All that vacation talk made me jealous; she spent about a week with her sister and her niece last week. They went to San Luis Obispo/Morro Bay, then up to San Francisco, where they spent a few days, then back to SLO and then home. I was so jealous. I haven't been out of town since I went to London in 2005!

So I've planned two holidays for myself. I'm going to Morro Bay for two nights next month. We get Yom Kippur off, so I'll take half a day on 20th September, check into my motel Thursday evening, spend all day Friday, and then come home Saturday evening. Short, but the drive is half the fun. That's booked; all I have to do is go, and take one of my credit cards (and my debit card) with me. (Debit for actual trip expenditures, credit for emergencies.)

The other holiday will be longer, but I'll be going back to Morro Bay for that one, too. I haven't set an exact date yet, because my friend and her hubbyman are coming in from Colorado for Christmas, and I don't want to leave town on the day they arrive.

Well, I feel like walking again. Diane came into my corridor about five minutes after the library closed and started dancing and singing: "The library's closed! Let's party!" So we went for a bit of a walk, pushing in chairs and shelving books in their proper places. Then she went home, and I did my three up-and-down laps in the library. (It's hard to explain, except to say that each up-and-down lap is somewhere between a sixth and a quarter of a mile. Three laps isn't much, but it's a good fifteen minutes if I really push myself, twenty-five if I'm strolling.) That's usually the extent of my walking, but I feel like going again, so I'm off.

Edit: Shit. Part of my Amazon UK order arrived today. I ordered the adult cover UK version of HBP, among other things ... I didn't pay enough attention to what I ordered. I have books one through five in hardback. This is paperback.

Headdesk. But I did get The Grand Sophy and the Book of General Ignorance as I wanted, so it isn't a total loss.