End of Days
The end of the semester is upon us. I've dealt with the end-of-term anxiety so many times now that it's more routine than trauma, but this is the first time I've ever been on the involved spectator side of things. As a grad student classes are only 10 weeks long, meaning I had my end-of-term panic episode a little over a month ago. Now I get to sit back and watch all the little underlings freak out about finals and graduation. I have to say, it's quite entertaining. :D
Working in the library has been something of an experience at this time in the semester. All of the seniors have received threatening letters telling them to return their books or else, so the circulation desk is FLOODED with returns. We're equally overwhelmned by various patrons coming in to pay fines so they won't be charged to their Busar's Account where Mommy and Daddy can see what bad library users they are. Loads of freshman have been putting off reading for their finals and are now coming in the night before demanding materials they should have requested weeks ago in order to get in time, and are now freaking out because they can't get ahold of them. All of this is coupled with the approaching library remodel in which the entire first floor of the library (including the Circulation Department) will be gutted in order for it to be upgraded to a newer, spiffy, cleaner finish. This means every piece of furniture in the department has sticky notes on it so the movers will know where it goes, library workers are frantically trying to keep up with the returns so that the downstairs sorting shelves can be moved, and the department's vending machines have been taken (for which I am most sad).
I haven't been reading as much lately because I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I got up to season 4 and reached a roadblock. This is the season when Angel started and the stories overlap quite a bit, so I had to go back and watch Angel's season 1 from the beginning...which is slowly killing me. Can we go back to Sunnydale now??
I'm getting my hair cut at 3pm, when I get off my first shift. I work noon-3pm, then again from 7pm-3am. Long day, but we persevere.
The apartment is pretty stellar. Roomie and I are having a lot of fun getting settled in and everything. He is also becoming accustomed to me sitting in my room alone talking to my computer a lot, which is good because for the first couple days he kept checking on me when I was vlogging or talking to the Germans on Skype.
Danny: You ok in there?
Me: Oh yeah, just talking to the computer!
Danny: Uh huh...Need anything?
Me: Nope, I'm good!
It was awkward. But all that is changing now because Danny is gonna start vlogging! Wheee! We made a video last night so I could teech him some basic editing, then he went into his room and talked to his computer for a couple of hours. They grow up so fast... Anyway, that's what's new here. Ciao!
Working in the library has been something of an experience at this time in the semester. All of the seniors have received threatening letters telling them to return their books or else, so the circulation desk is FLOODED with returns. We're equally overwhelmned by various patrons coming in to pay fines so they won't be charged to their Busar's Account where Mommy and Daddy can see what bad library users they are. Loads of freshman have been putting off reading for their finals and are now coming in the night before demanding materials they should have requested weeks ago in order to get in time, and are now freaking out because they can't get ahold of them. All of this is coupled with the approaching library remodel in which the entire first floor of the library (including the Circulation Department) will be gutted in order for it to be upgraded to a newer, spiffy, cleaner finish. This means every piece of furniture in the department has sticky notes on it so the movers will know where it goes, library workers are frantically trying to keep up with the returns so that the downstairs sorting shelves can be moved, and the department's vending machines have been taken (for which I am most sad).
I haven't been reading as much lately because I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I got up to season 4 and reached a roadblock. This is the season when Angel started and the stories overlap quite a bit, so I had to go back and watch Angel's season 1 from the beginning...which is slowly killing me. Can we go back to Sunnydale now??
I'm getting my hair cut at 3pm, when I get off my first shift. I work noon-3pm, then again from 7pm-3am. Long day, but we persevere.
The apartment is pretty stellar. Roomie and I are having a lot of fun getting settled in and everything. He is also becoming accustomed to me sitting in my room alone talking to my computer a lot, which is good because for the first couple days he kept checking on me when I was vlogging or talking to the Germans on Skype.
Danny: You ok in there?
Me: Oh yeah, just talking to the computer!
Danny: Uh huh...Need anything?
Me: Nope, I'm good!
It was awkward. But all that is changing now because Danny is gonna start vlogging! Wheee! We made a video last night so I could teech him some basic editing, then he went into his room and talked to his computer for a couple of hours. They grow up so fast... Anyway, that's what's new here. Ciao!