Moot Thoughts & Musings

We had a late night last night and were awakened to a symphony of alarm clocks that lasted longer than usual this morning. I managed to make it to school in decent amount of time and had a good day. As the day progressed, though, last night's effects stole upon me and weariness won out.

Following my last class, I went to October's scheduled MARIS event, which was looking at a display of facsimiles of medieval manuscripts which are housed in the special collections library. Always nice to remember what we had. As I was walking over with a prof of mine, I glanced down at my shirt and realized that this morning's coffee had left its mark. My prof made sympathetic noises and chalked it up to "occupational hazard". Too true.

When I came back to my office, I knew that occupational hazard or not, I needed more of the caffeinated liquid. I also thought that I would make the most of my walk over to the coffee shop and stop by the Kinko's to get this unit's installments of articles bound for one of my classes (so much easier to keep things in order that way). But upon further inspection I realized that I missing a few articles. Deducing that a quick trip to the library would remedy the situation, I resolved to go over before coffee. Dragging my weary head over there, I got all the way to the reserve desk before I realized that I had forgotten my keys inside my office. What a bother! Not knowing how long my prof would still be on campus, I opted for skipping photocopying for catching him and his key to my office.

Standing in front of my desk I thought, "What do I do now?" When all else fails, start cleaning the desk. I straightened up my desk area, and when I was done, the answer lay plainly in front of me: Go home. It was so obvious, why hadn't I seen it before? So I packed my bags and came home...pausing to gas up on coffee, of course.