morning report

Hello to grey_bard who newly friended me. Pull up a chair, grab a beverage of your choice, welcome to the rambling....

I must call up the law school library today and see if I can get them to renew my books on-line. There is some sort of stupid lock on me renewing the books on-line because they're overdue. And I got an email notice that they'll fine me 50 cents/day until I bring the books back. Grrr. We should get longer than two weeks to check out books. I personally think that at least a month is necessary, and the entire semester would be nice.....The truly annoying thing is that the policies are inconsistent across the university's libraries. So if I go to the main library on campus, I can check out books for the entire semester. I also cannot return the books to any library on campus, but instead have to return the law school books to the law school, the main library books to the main library, etc. Every other university I've attended with more than one library has had the policy of open returns. That is, the books can be checked out of one library and returned to another school library; the libraries function as one system, not as autonomous fiefs....Ah well, the campus here isn't that big, so it's more of an inconvenience than anything else, but it's still irritating.

I wonder if I should give out LJ codes to the rest of the siblings-in-law....

All right. Time to go start packing and see what I need to bring for the weekend. Then I'll go window-shopping at Lands' End and wait for minastir to pick me up.

afternoon report

Busy. Very busy getting caught up on paperwork from the D.C. interview (thank you note and hotel reimbursement). I need to organize my desks better so I can find things and get on the stick! Decided to not go to Lands' End today. Maybe over the weekend, and try to do some bonding with Mother....after all, there is no sales tax on clothing in Minnesota, unless they changed things since the last time I was there.

I now have my RCN icons uploaded. I got my David Drake newsletter in my email today. Drake has finished another book, Master of the Cauldron, the sixth Isles fantasy, and handed it into Tor. The next one he'll work on will be a RCN book! And Far Side of the Stars is going into a second printing! Whoohoo!

Other good news: the board member said I did the best job of page proofing for the latest assignment, catching errors that nobody else did! "God is in the details," and always edit at least twice.

( What kind of rabid HP fan am I? )

Right. Enough wasting time. Must scan in and fax various things to the DOJ, and then commence the packing.