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I've been inspired this year to attempt to send people Christmas/seasonal cards. So, if you would like one, please comment with your name and address. I think I've screened comments, I've never done it before so tell me if I haven't!
I had a very strange accidental meeting with my boss today. He's usually quite... distracted, I think is the right word, at work, and often frowns at me when I'm talking to him, I think because he's concentrating, hopefully not because he doesn't like me! I was in the city library today trying to work out how to put books on hold (happily I discovered the system is the same as my library at home), and I heard him say 'Rachel?'
Rachel is not my name, it's the name of the person who worked in the lab last year, and I've been working here for nearly three months now! And embarassingly, I still turned around when he said 'Rachel'.
Anyway, I told him I was there because I like books and I only brought five with me, and he started asking me what kind of books I liked (he'd never heard of Game of Thrones or Terry Pratchett - I was putting those books on hold - I was quite surprised.) and then his wife (who also works in our lab, but I haven't really talked to her till this last week when she's been showing me weaning and ear clipping and things) rang, and he started asking her for books to bring in! I have a feeling I will be presented with a pile of books tomorrow.
I did get quite a few books out from the library, though - Paladin of Souls, the sequel to Curse of Chalion, and the Sharing Knife trilogy (?) by Lois McMaster Bujold. And Cart and Cwidder and the second in that series by DWJ.
I then went and got very confused by the roads and ended up at the wrong Target, but it turned out to be all for the good because I wanted to buy some coloured card/paper to make Christmas cards, and I found this book of gorgeous paper with different patterns in a 99c section, so I got all excited and I got to the till and it turned out to be $8, and somebody had put it in the wrong place. But the lovely guy on the till let me have it for 99c since I'd been confused. :D
I had a very strange accidental meeting with my boss today. He's usually quite... distracted, I think is the right word, at work, and often frowns at me when I'm talking to him, I think because he's concentrating, hopefully not because he doesn't like me! I was in the city library today trying to work out how to put books on hold (happily I discovered the system is the same as my library at home), and I heard him say 'Rachel?'
Rachel is not my name, it's the name of the person who worked in the lab last year, and I've been working here for nearly three months now! And embarassingly, I still turned around when he said 'Rachel'.
Anyway, I told him I was there because I like books and I only brought five with me, and he started asking me what kind of books I liked (he'd never heard of Game of Thrones or Terry Pratchett - I was putting those books on hold - I was quite surprised.) and then his wife (who also works in our lab, but I haven't really talked to her till this last week when she's been showing me weaning and ear clipping and things) rang, and he started asking her for books to bring in! I have a feeling I will be presented with a pile of books tomorrow.
I did get quite a few books out from the library, though - Paladin of Souls, the sequel to Curse of Chalion, and the Sharing Knife trilogy (?) by Lois McMaster Bujold. And Cart and Cwidder and the second in that series by DWJ.
I then went and got very confused by the roads and ended up at the wrong Target, but it turned out to be all for the good because I wanted to buy some coloured card/paper to make Christmas cards, and I found this book of gorgeous paper with different patterns in a 99c section, so I got all excited and I got to the till and it turned out to be $8, and somebody had put it in the wrong place. But the lovely guy on the till let me have it for 99c since I'd been confused. :D