Reason #394 that I love my job, also known as Reason #81 that JD is the best boss ever:

One of the student library assistants went into his office to ask a procedural question; five minutes later they're laughing about something they both saw on South Park.

The librarians are leading around groups of ickle firsties around the law library. I love seeing them look all intimidated and slightly nervous; it's kind of cute, really.

Well. That was fun.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

We're all okay, nothing broken, no books fell off the shelves. I have rug burn on my knees from diving under my desk.

SoCA friends -- all is well?

I lurve the bad weather. It's raining right now, and while I don't have a window to the outside world, I can hear the cars splashing through the parking lot, and when it rains hard, I hear the rain on the roof. It's a good day for comfort food, cats, pajamas, a sofa, and a good book, none of which I have access to at the moment, but hey. I've still got the rain to listen to.

And see what else I've got? subvers made this beautiful icon for me! *purrs again*

One of my librarians submitted an expense report to me today. One of the items he's getting compensation for was purchase in March of 2006. It's only a few dollars, so it isn't worth making a fuss over, but perhaps I should introduce some basic Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to my co-workers in the next staff meeting.

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.

Such fun to be working and all of a sudden, I go "Oooo!"

Biodiversity and the law / edited by William J. Snape, III ; foreword by Oliver A. Houck.

I was searching my library's online catalog to make sure we haven't already got the books I'm about to order, and I came across this. Just a little, unexpected lift in the middle of the day.

I listen to the filmmakers' commentaries on DVDs a lot, because I like listening to the story writers and actors tell their stories. ( I watched Nanny McPhee this afternoon, while I was at work: )

Some of them are big things, like graduating from uni, or your wedding, or your babies being born. But some of them are memories of little things that made a big impression. ( This is one of those moments: )

(Hogwarts House points to the person who can, without using a search engine, tell me what movie I've quoted in the subject line.)