This is another one from work. I have a bunch of rolled up, laminated posters on my desk. When I look down them, they remind me of kaleidoscopes.
Month: August 2011
Resurrection Lily
The poor things look like someone chewed them up and spit them out. This summer has not been kind to my little garden.
Miss Henry
Miss Henry is modelling a Paul McCobb Planner Group chair. The finish is a little worn, so it’s not worth as much as a pristine chair would be worth, but I only payed $5 for it at a yard sale. Not bad, eh?
Breathe
I’ve been kind of holding my breath, waiting to see if I’d be laid off. Ten positions at the library were cut. TEN. That’s mind-boggling, considering how many entire positions we’ve already lost through attrition. Over the past few years, we’ve been asked to do increasingly more with increasing fewer warm bodies. We’re stretched too thin already in my department. And then we found out, in nearly the same instant, that the president of the university had been awarded a 20% pay raise. The amount of his raise alone is more than 3x my annual salary. I just cannot understand how he can sleep at night. If he had a moral fiber in his body, he’d refuse the raise. Or, at the very least, he’d take the same 1.5% raise that (the remaining) support staff got.
So today we got the word that everyone in my unit would be safe. For now, anyway.
Bird Bath
Google says it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other between “birdbath” and “bird bath.” Squishing it all together looks funny to me, though, so I’m going with the latter.
Harvestman
These little guys (arachnids but not spiders) seem to really like the house where I’m cat sitting. They swarm all over the garage door.
red paper boat 