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I think working circa 40 hours a week makes me very appreciative of weekends. Today, we established that between Brian and I, there are 1102 shelves of volumes and monographs (books not part of a set) in the basement of the law school library that need to be shifted to distribute the free space from 50+ empty shelves to rapidly growing volume sets from India and Pakistan.
Work at the law library is somewhat interesting. There are maybe 4-5 different jobs that I do on a rotating basis, and it seems like each supervisor wants the library workers like us to do their work for them. They're nice people, which is good. Yesterday, while under quite a time crunch to finish my allotted shelving, I finished basement and got to 2nd floor stacks with maybe 30 minutes before closing, quickly put the reshelf in call number order, loaded the book truck, then proceeded to shelve the 1.5 shelves of books in 20 minutes. I was basically relying on momentum, steering the book truck with one hand, and flipping alcove light switches with the other hand. I was surprised because it took me maybe 2 total hours to shelves 5 shelves in the basement (however, that includes time spent on some minor shifting of books in order to make space on completely full shelves).
Today is a breakthrough day for my cubing exploits. I took an average 3 times as follows:
40.04
38.68 (first sub-40 average! And at one point I dropped the cube onto my keyboard and resumed with the rest of my PLL, heh)
35.55 (includes my 2nd sub-30 solve so far)
And on my music-listening marathon in which I listen to all my music once through in order, I am now on track 142 of 3049. At this rate, I might not be able to finish before fall semester starts.
Work at the law library is somewhat interesting. There are maybe 4-5 different jobs that I do on a rotating basis, and it seems like each supervisor wants the library workers like us to do their work for them. They're nice people, which is good. Yesterday, while under quite a time crunch to finish my allotted shelving, I finished basement and got to 2nd floor stacks with maybe 30 minutes before closing, quickly put the reshelf in call number order, loaded the book truck, then proceeded to shelve the 1.5 shelves of books in 20 minutes. I was basically relying on momentum, steering the book truck with one hand, and flipping alcove light switches with the other hand. I was surprised because it took me maybe 2 total hours to shelves 5 shelves in the basement (however, that includes time spent on some minor shifting of books in order to make space on completely full shelves).
Today is a breakthrough day for my cubing exploits. I took an average 3 times as follows:
40.04
38.68 (first sub-40 average! And at one point I dropped the cube onto my keyboard and resumed with the rest of my PLL, heh)
35.55 (includes my 2nd sub-30 solve so far)
And on my music-listening marathon in which I listen to all my music once through in order, I am now on track 142 of 3049. At this rate, I might not be able to finish before fall semester starts.