I ended up suddenly filling in for the late shift at the reference desk today. I don’t usually mind taking on extra hours, because I like working the reference desk (today I introduced someone to sociological abstracts and tracked down an engineering journal that had gone through a couple of name changes).
I do wish I’d known about it in advance, so I could have come into work really really late, instead of only sorta late. I’m SO not going to be in my cubicle until at least 11 tomorrow morning!

I wonder if I set myself up for this, because when people ask me to do something, I usually say yes, unless they are asking for something insane. What can I say? I live to serve! I also wonder if people would be less inclined to assume that I had a flexible schedule if I was married and had kids….

Maybe I need to make up having an infant or pet snake or something, so when someone asks me for a favor that involves me being at the library for a good 10 hours, I can say something like “But I have to go feed little Everard! I can’t take your shift!”

Tomorrow: Pink hair, Hot Pants, Gardening, Monkeys, and Dueling!