And the scan monkey goes eep! eep! eep!

God, I don't know how many pages I've scanned today. Classes start tomorrow, which means that all the professors come to me with their electronic reserves. (Never mind that the "deadline" was January 3rd. Some of them come in with apology upon apology, and I have to keep from saying, "It's all right. I fully expected all of you to ignore the deadline. This is, to be sure, Bard." Instead I leave it at "It's all right." Whatever, it's fine. It's what I'm here for. Also, as the daughter of a professor, I can appreciate the power of the ever-changing syllabi.)

I am horrified with how much paper the Reserve Office uses. Never mind the photocopies coming in to be scanned for ReserveWeb. Those are returned to the professors, and who knows whether they recycle. But then there are all the print-outs I have to make, and then toss. ReserveWeb forms, old archived reserve lists, the CD list, the video list.... I feel I should go to environmental confession. I try, God knows I try, to conserve paper as much as possible. That's why I've started printing our reserve lists to PDF and storing them on the hard drive, rather than printing them on paper and binding them, etc., at the end of semester as we used to. But still. I will blind myself with reading things on the computer screen. Help me.

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I am 70 pages shy of finishing Jonathan Strange, finally. That's 790 (or thereabouts) pages of pure joy, there. And I don't even like fantasy. But then, fantasy doesn't usually take place in the reign of George III. Now I have to figure out what to read next. I do have a pile of Graham Greene waiting in a paper bag in my living room. Perhaps I'll finally finish Power and the Glory? That's an idea.