bluecastle | quick! hide from the dinosaur....

This interview with The Magicians author Lev Grossman dropped into my mailbox this morning. He has interesting things to say about writing Fantasy, and the interactions between writers and readers. Interesting stuff.

Am preparing to do something we don't do very often around this here workplace... have a staff meeting. While I certainly don't want to give anyone the impression that I want MORE meetings... I think twice a year is perhaps a TAD too FEW meetings when you're running a department of 30 or so people spread out over 8 or so locations.

And actually, I do have something to run up the flagpole (as it were). Every year The Library holds a two day open house primarily aimed at introducing first year students to the GIGANTOR library that we have. It's theme based (although the themes have gotten a lot tamer lately. *is sad* *misses the Pirate themed years*). And so for two days in September I get to coordinate (mostly by default, no one else being interested) a dog and pony show about the marvels of technology at a couple tables in the libraries' main circulation room. We are usually shoved right next to the Dance, Dance Revolution student club demonstrations. Let me tell you... DDR looks like it might be kinda fun... but after two solid days of listening to that music and watching those kids stomping away... DDR can suck it.

And being a person with almost crippling shyness... spending two days talking to 4,000 odd students is not exactly stress free for me.

But that's NEXT month.

Right now I'm off to enjoy the last day before the students move in. The ROTC kids are gathering outside our doors to give us a taste of what tomorrow will be like.

Oh, to be able to work from home...

ETA: So I wasn't going to look. But we know how that goes. So when I was checking out these pictures, you know what gutted me ... even though they were probably left over from some previous memorial token... the little paperclips hung onto the "tourist center" grating. Like, a token, when you don't have anything else... you leave the office boy an extra paperclip, just in case.

(And we won't even talk about my instinctive gasp the other night when I was watching some stupid tv show and the EMT's showed up to rescue a girl and wrapped her in a red plastic tarp. GUT REACTION was never so true.)