Mensa Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam

I spent this entire week refusing to buy a new bag of coffee because I didn't want to shell out the $8. Instead, every morning I walked up to Au Bon Pain at 6:25 a.m. and bought one for $1.59. At seven days, that means I spent $11.13.

A bag of Starbucks coffee would've lasted me a month.

Yes, I do dumb things. Shush.

I'll Take Things I Don't Want To Hear on a Tuesday Morning for $2000, Alex

1. "Sorry, we've only brewed decaf coffee so far."*
2. "No, ma'am, we've discontinued that Aveda product you've been using so blissfully for the last three years."
3. "I know you're in the middle of a class, but just off the top of your head, could you put together a comprehensive list of books for me on the topic of history in the Middle East that includes both a recent chronological layout and primary source documents? No? Well could you do it for me by third period?"
4. "I know we told you that you'd be eligible to receive Professional Development Points for that conference last month. We were wrong."
5. "As you can see, tomorrow's agenda includes a three hour seminar on Sexual Harrassment. We will be looking for volunteers to role play."

Sigh. This is going to be a rough week.

*Who the eff brews decaf first? Like anyone's going to rush in, already late for work, just so they can get their decaf fix?

It's Like I Never Left

Nerds, you know it's going to be a tough week when it's 9 a.m. on Monday and you're already looking forward to a nap. Can a person love their bed too much? Mayhap it's the chilly morning air that makes me pull at all the blankets until they're cocooned around me, or it could also be that C gets to sleep two more hours than I do and in my sleepy jealousy I steal all the warm bits of the covers; in any case I very much wanted to stay in bed when my alarm went off at 5:30.

A few random bits and pieces on this gray Monday morn:

• I am now on the NaBloPoMo website, hooray! If you'd like to check out some of the other participants, here is the infamous blog Randomizer. I have to stop myself from clicking that link about 70 times a day out of sheer curiosity at who else would join in this folly.
• I won two tickets to the Ok! Go concert at the Avalon next week. They were so fun when I saw them last summer, I'm v. excited to get to see a whole show. Do you think they'll bring their treadmills?
• An anonymous student left this note taped to my desk this morning: "Here's where you go when you're filled with doom, the library will lift all your gloom". (?!?!?!)
• My agenda for this week includes beginning my Christmas shopping. I refuse (refuse, you hear me?) to spend another month of December sweating in a mall somewhere, ready to push old ladies, mothers wielding strollers, people in wheelchairs, and other slow-ass people out of my way with my elbows. The very idea of mall Christmas shopping is making me feel anxious and sick. This year, online is where it's at.

Time for me to refuel. My co-worker attempted to make coffee this morning and the water was mud brown before she even brewed it. Looks like it'll be a double Starbucks day for this little ol' librarian.