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I’ve been dreading today. It is going to be a work-filled day. Now that we’re ramping up for fall term to start, there are time pressures that sometimes make for long, work-filled weekends.

I didn’t help things when I stayed up way to late in the LSW Meebo room having a grand old time with the others who were there. And my cat didn’t help things by waking up me several times throughout the night, probably to tell me about the rain, but who really knows.

So I was, as I said, quite prepared to hate today.

And then I realized that the steady rain was falling straight down, that my porch was relatively dry under its overhang, and that I could turn this into the best morning of the summer. So here I am, sitting on the porch, listening to the rain hit the wilting trees and the dried up grass. To make things even more comfortable, I have a sweater and blanket on (it’s actually chilly out here! welcome after a three-week heat wave), my laptop at hand, and a book. I figure an hour or so of this kind of bliss might just make the rest of the weekend seem less onerous.

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It’s pretty lonely in my neck of the woods today. Most of the time, my wall of offices is full of my co-workers. Today, I’m the only one along this wall. My supervisor is here, but her office is farther off. And the liaison in charge of all things media is here, but he’s, like, 40 whole feet away and in another area of the library.

Why am I so isolated today? Because one of our librarians doesn’t work summers and isn’t back yet, two are taking the day off, and one more has reduced her FTE so that she can have Fridays off to be with her baby girl. And that leaves me.

I have enough to do that this should be a welcome development. But unfortunately, my office is the only one that’s open and visible from the reference desk now, so I’ll be getting all the drop-in questions that should go to the person on call (who will be here, but not directly visible from the reference desk). I’ll have to be ruthless about paging the on-call librarian or I’ll never get anything done. I hate doing that. It always feels like I’m deliberately not being helpful or something

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This is just a note to say I’m back.

My blogging vacation was great. I sat on the porch, read Harry Potter, read a few New Yorkers (now I’m only behind by 3 weeks!), watched the grass grow, and generally took a true and thorough vacation. I’ve got a hefty to-do list here at work, including slogging through email and attending triply my normal load of meetings, but even so I’m not dreading the day, so I guess the vacation worked it’s magic (though I wouldn’t say no to about 3 or 4 more months of it).

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You may have noticed that blogging around these parts has slowed to trickles and little spurts lately. And strangely enough, this isn’t for lack of topics. Seriously. I’ve never been one for keeping lists of posts I want to write, but lately I’ve developed a ridiculously long list of topics, none of which have made it here.

Well, I’ve been busy with both work and non-work stuff, and a little bit more susceptible to stress than usual, and a little, well, blah. Fine, but blah.

So I’m going to take next week off from blogging, from stress, from stuff. I’m going to get some power-relaxing in, some reading, and some staring into space. Then I’ll be back and thinking about tackling that list of bloggable topics. Or not. Maybe I’ll have a whole new bunch of topics to blog about by then. See you then!

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