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lured me through the bitter cold to his library yesterday with the cryptic message “Can you come to FIS after work? I need to show you a few things.”<\/p>\n

I should have sensed something was up.<\/p>\n

By the time I reached Harbord & St. George, just shy of Robarts, I could no longer feel my thighs from the wind chill. I ducked into the University College Union and went to pay a visit to the Dean. We chatted for a bit, talked about her recent trip to the Big Apple, and the fact that this past weekend was Fireball<\/a> (the huge annual party to commemorate the college burning down on Valentine’s Day 1890). She volunteered to help with clean up as usual and apparently there was a lot of puke, since nowadays the frosh are all underage and don’t know their limits. Cleaning up puke is so NOT in the Dean’s job description. Nona’s such a trooper.<\/p>\n

After I’d thawed slightly, I pushed onward to the Faculty of Information Science<\/a> and snuck behind the reference desk to see E. in his natural habitat. Part Englishman, part Yeti, his cave was littered with books, cataloguing materials and the carcasses of long-dead mugs of tea. <\/p>\n

Herding me into a little room, he plunked a few books down before me and said with great frustration, “Okay, little bunny. I can’t stand it any longer. Writing to tell you that you need to become a librarian just isn’t getting through.<\/i>” Now, apparently, it was time for Plan B. Forcible introduction to industry journals and faculty. <\/p>\n

Leaving me alone with current issues of ‘Library Journal’, ‘Quill & Quire’<\/a>, and a few acquisitions texts for librarians wishing to build their graphic novel collections, he went to make tea. Or so I thought. Moments later, as I was thinking that Q&Q desperately<\/i> needs a new reviewer for comics – seriously, I could do better than this<\/a> – he told me to follow him and WHAMO! I was in an impromptu interview with the Inforum Director about joining their graduate studies program. I know that , , and… good lord, how many librarians do I know on LJ alone? will be excited to know that my interest was at least piqued by the part-time PhD program that was dangled before me. We’ll see if I bite.<\/p>\n

Couldn’t get to sleep again when I got home. Stayed up until 1am to finish reading ‘Boy Proof’ then tossed and turned all night. Possibly as a result of talking too much about medical things with over the weekend, or maybe because Edward and I ran into last night at Juice for Life, I was plagued by troubled dreams about sticky fascia<\/a>, Iliotibial Band Syndrome<\/a>, and just before I woke up, a very realistic dream wherein a guy friend of mine gave me a brief lower back and thigh massage and then I literally begged him for more. On my knees. I don’t think my subconscious has ever let me see it beg before. Very embarrassing. Time to call and book an appointment with an RMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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