Skipping like crazy 'cause I finally decided that there is just no way I could catch up on almost 7000 posts. I know. I'm weak.

And now our stacks person has handed me pages ripped out of a book -- said pages are clearly made of pre 1850 paper, and some of it is in law French -- so I need to try and figure out wherefrom they were ripped.

And if I find the person who did this, I will rip into him/her...

Rip, Sparky, and then, hopefully your institution will actually cause this person some real pain. Withhold grades. Charge him/her huge quantities of money. Something like that.

At my old library, a student cut the contents out of two bound volumes of periodicals (from a title that cost $2000 a year and took 3-4 years and hundreds of staff hours to replace). He then cut out the quotes he wanted for his paper, and pasted them in because he was too damn lazy to retype them. The professor turned him in to the library, figuring that he probably couldn't afford his own personal $2000/year subscription. The library said he had to pay to replace the journal before they would unblock his account so he could get his grades. He went to the dean of students, and told the dean that a librarian had told him that it was ok to slice the guts out of $2000/year periodicals and replace the empty bindings back on the shelf. The kicker? The dean of students bought it and said he didn't have to pay anything as long as he promised not to do it again.

Ten years later, this still steams me. Feh.

I am saddened to report that I heard ita's gross joke when I was in Jr. High.

I am saddened to report that I heard jokes that were grosser than ita's in Jr. High.

I am saddened to report that I heard jokes that were grosser than ita's in Jr. High.

You wouldn't happen to want to share? I mean, if they're actually funny.

Jeez, ita. I really really hope you have a nice restful weekend planned.

He then cut out the quotes he wanted for his paper, and pasted them in because he was too damn lazy to retype them.

What?!?!

The dean of students bought it and said he didn't have to pay anything as long as he promised not to do it again.

WHAT?!?!?! I swear to god, some people should not live.

I am wondering when I will be able to have a good night's sleep again. I'm thinking possibly Monday night? Last night, I was all keyed up and couldn't fall asleep, and then woke up well before my alarm for no apparent reason. Ugh.

Apparently I missed a dirty joke, anyone care to fill me in? They're kind of my stock in trade.

Here you go, Jars: ita "Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?" May 17, 2006 10:45:05 pm PDT It's not that funny.

I can't, absolutely can't, imagine the idiocy that goes into TRUE cut and paste and then excusing it. Though I did have a customer one time who printed and then cut bits of it out and pasted them in a different order to get her final copy. NOT AN ACTUAL BOOK, though. Which is important.

Oy. Work again. So soon!

Heh. I don't know if the funny is worth the gross, but still, small heh.

a student cut the contents out of two bound volumes of periodicals (from a title that cost $2000 a year and took 3-4 years and hundreds of staff hours to replace). He then cut out the quotes he wanted for his paper, and pasted them in because he was too damn lazy to retype them.

That's a ticket to a really boring, not special in the slightest hell in my book (ahem). I have half a dozen library books in my car that were due yesterday and I'm mildly guilty over that. Intact, non-vandalized library books.

I mean, if they're actually funny.

Ah, see, that would be the problem. I'm not sure I found them funny at the time, but there was a certain humorous cache to the gross-out joke when I was 13. Now, NSM.

Plus, too much typing for the result.

Something keeps invading my sinuses at night.

I scratched my eyeball fishing out an eyelash.

I don't want to work.

At least it's almost the weekend.