more typos

I was setting up a reservation for a student and he was leaning over the desk to watch what I was doing. I find this a little annoying. Without meaning to, I almost entered his name as "Bretty."

Crucifixation & hertiage

I'm searching for typos in our catalog. These are my favorites so far - best read aloud.

• alaphabet
• artits
• bridgegroom
• cementeries
• childhod
• classifiction
• ecocomic
• errr
• humdred
• Lousie (I like it louse-ee)
• pinciple
• playright
• presidental
• pscyho
• pslams
• studnet
• washingtin

Duncan and the Electoral Process

A moment ago I was unobtrusively microwaving my lunch (yummy leftover Indian food) in the faculty lounge.

A table of faculty were discussing "their favorite deposed dictators," and as I left one man was nodding with satisfaction while another discussed how the actual Macbeth ruled happily and the original Duncan was ousted in due process by an electoral function...

I like eavesdropping on odd conversations.

My Office

Freeze-dried books and chocolate chip bagels

I like working at a college in the summer. Free pastries and no one's eating them but me. Why does low-fat cream cheese look like slick sour cream?

My boss is reading about an old case where one state judge in California was going to shoot another judge (in a courtroom) and was shot down by a federal marshall who thereby precipitated all sorts of state vs. federal arguments. Her favorite part is the woman who carried a gun to court every day in her purse and would stand up occasionally and say "I'm going to kill you! You know I'm going to kill you!" and no one seemed to care.

I, meanwhile, am throwing away printed out e-mails from ten years ago requesting more paper in the copy center. At this rate I'll get the whole filing system in "my office" down to two drawers instead of twelve.

Did you know that some people freeze-dry books? Midwest Freeze-Dry Ltd. can rescue books "dating to the 16th century, captain's logs from sunken ships, and insect-infested artifacts of wood and leather"