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I\u2019m taking it easy though, relatively speaking. Came to the office at around 10. It\u2019s not a work day for me, or so I say at least. I\u2019m emailing old friends, a slow process. For many of them I will look back at what they have emailed me lately, or what we have discussed at some point. I\u2019ll then maybe pull up a paper they\u2019ve sent me to look over, or google some topic we\u2019ve both found interesting. And then I realize that my mouse is dying, and that I have a nice new cordless optical mouse sitting in the package before me. And then I realize I should go to the library to check out a book I need to look up a quote in (The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton); and then I realize I need some videos there too\u2026<\/p>\n

So I rush off (well, not so much) to the library. But first food. No, nothing on campus is open for food. The library it is. Then to a grocer off campus: humus and french bread, an apple, OJ. Then to realize that I\u2019ve locked myself out of my office. Oops. No worries, last Fall I locked myself out of my house so often that the locksmith knew me by name. I think I got a frequent customer discount too. Silly.<\/p>\n

But no, on campus we are lucky enough to have a whole police force dedicated to unlocking the offices of absent-minded academics (and busting freshmen with pot and alcohol in the dorms, but that\u2019s mostly at night while the academics sleep). I discovered this last Spring when I showed up at work one day, alarmed by the police car in the drive way, only to discover that my boss had made this very same error.<\/p>\n

Now, back in the office \u2013 hunger assuaged, blog posted, I am ready to resume the email mission\u2026<\/p>\n

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