Wildebeest!

At work again, the pleasantly slow Saturday shift. None of my favorite patrons have come in today, but the Movie Glutton came in already. The Movie Glutton is a grad student, with grad student library privileges and that means unlimited movies with no late fees. She wears a scarf on her head not like a normal person in the hijab style but tied jauntily like a pirate. All of which is unremarkable except for the fact that she checks out approximately 50 movies at a time, and it takes a while to unlock all the cases and desensitize them and make sure all the correct dvds are in said cases and then to scan them all. Maja and I usually tag-team it, but it still takes a while. Also, she does this every Saturday. No one can watch that many movies in a week.

Needless complaining, though. I am in a rather good mood because last night Mathew gave me a very lovely peacock pearl choker. (Pearl necklace choker, which is not the usual definition, but just means sitting right at the base of the neck). It's around the time of our second anniversary, and pearls are my favorite. I'm really quite pleased, and of course told him this. I now have a nice basic white choker, and a secondary black choker, so that's a good start to a pearl collection.

I woke up with a sore throat this morning, which is never pleasant. So far my nose has been keeping itself open, but if I starts to plug up I will have to down the Sudafed and hop around like a jittery madman in hopes of avoiding a sinus infection. One time I took Sudafed and Benedryl at the same time under the hypothesis that they would open my nose twice as well and also cancel out each other's side effects (jittery + sleepy = normal?), but indeed they did neither, and just made me act so oddly it alarmed Mat.

Saturday morning shift at the library is dead as can be. It's just Maja and me working it now, Bernice was on this shift too but she traded it for a more lucrative Friday afternoon. Some of the regulars have come in today, Old British Man with Cane and Studious Olive-Skinned Boy. I get off in one hour, whereupon I will scam Mat into cleaning my apartment because he wants to have some people over tonight.