Isn’t eating breakfast food in the middle of the night one of life’s great luxuries? I had to work the late shift tonight, didn’t get home until 11 pm and I was craving pancakes. My copy of the Joy of Cooking automatically opens to the pancake page. Ah, lovely, lovely pancakes! I’m glad I walked both to and from work today, I doubt that will balance eating so many carbs before bed but at least I was semi-active. I didn’t walk home in the middle of the night, I went to work in the morning, came back home at noon, went to work again at 5:30 and now I’m back, tired yet joyfully stuffed with pancakes.
So, a pancake infused refgrunt:
Books are over there
Here are more staples
This is how you find old Chemistry journals, this is where they are in the library, you can request that article through interlibrary loan
She needs information about a contemporary Jewish musician and she’s already used the music databases…I show her WorldCat and EthnicNewsWatch and print an article from Lexis Nexis for her.
I’m sorry we don’t have state tax forms.
I spend a bunch of time trying to locate a particular type of map of the Ottoman Empire right before World War I. Thank you historic atlases!
Printing
Books are over there
You can put a trace on that missing book at the circulation desk
No, we don’t give away extra notebooks here, but you can have some scratch paper.
Book on social psychology experimentation
Books are over there
How to access e-journals
You’d get more results if you search for Brooks, Gwendolyn
Books are over there
How to use EconLit
We open tomorrow at 8:00
I wonder why people are doing jumping jacks in the library
I suggest ways someone can enlarge an image they printed out from a web page
Books are over there
6:06 am on April 6th, 2005 1
Augh. Pancakes sounds so good.
Now I’m going to have to make pancakes this morning too!
8:02 am on April 6th, 2005 2
mmm pancakes. Not just for breakfast anymore.
8:55 am on April 6th, 2005 3
And then there are the pancake houses in the Netherlands. No resemblance to the “IHoP” places in the U.S., International House of Pancakes, which are just a scant degree above bifburger joints and feature all sorts of foods, many of a breakfasty nature. No, these pancake houses (pannekoekhuizen) recognize the pancake for what it is: a main meal. They come large as a plate, or larger, and in varieties. Shanghai pancakes with bacon, paprika, onions, bean sprouts, egg, and spanish peppers. Or how about Twentse pancakes with ham, salami, and cheese? Hearty pancakes with cheese, onions, and champignons, or with ham and cheese? Not to mention the various sweet pancakes: apple and bacon; apple and banana; pineapple, ham, and cheese; mandarin oranges and confectioners sugar … And, no, these weren’t crepes. At least not when I was young. They were pancakes! Oy, were they ever pancakes … Feast your eyes on the menu — even if you don’t understand Dutch, the sheer length of the list is impressive:
http://www.pannenkoekhuis.nl/menu.html
Tanuki (feeling suddenly VERY hungry indeed!)
9:17 am on April 6th, 2005 4
Wow. Now I want even more pancakes….I didn’t think that was possible
Am I reading the menu right? You can get ham and brie pancakes? That sounds yummy….
8:31 pm on April 6th, 2005 5
Summary: The pancakes are here and the books are over there. Are you SURE the books are over there?
9:33 am on April 7th, 2005 6
Yep, ham, brie, and chives. “Prei” is leeks. “Garnering” means garnishings — sauces, possibly, or condiments, whatever, depending.
As for where the books are … I was rather amused by the second line, considering the overall subject. “Here are more staples.” Hokay. My staples are popcorn, chocolate, and champers. And cheese, and single malt scotch. What staples does your library carry?
9:00 pm on April 7th, 2005 7
Well, in this case, the staples in question were just those little metal things that hold bits of paper together. Believe me, if my library had chocolate there would be no way I’d give that out at the reference desk