I'd rather see co-workers snogging.... and we all know I don't REALLY want to see that either!

Been a slow, slow, slow day at the Ref desk but not all was lost as I gathered more dirty gossip about the library.  Seems like one of our patrons was innocently practicing sign language the other day and another patron made some erroneous assumptions and decided to lobby for some sexual favors.  Mr. Erroneous Patron even passed Mr. Innocent Patron a note saying they could be very discreet even after Mr. Innocent had vehemently turned the dude down.  *sigh*  Do you see why I hate summer around this place?  It's like all these people can't find some other air conditioned place to get off.  And the riff-raff, if I dare call them that, just makes this an uncomfortable, icky place to be.  Anyway, I told Mr. Innocent he needed to tell us about it next time.   It's not as if I want to be the sex police or anything, but I'm a firm believer in that whole "no means no" thing.

this is why I love reading popular science books!

With the delightful combination of my pasty skin tone and rather poor usage of sunscreen, I've been afflicted by sun burns all my life.  And yet, until I recently read Skin, A Natural History by Nina Jablonski, I had no idea: "The painfully bright red appearance of sunburned skin actually results from an increase in the number and diameter of the tiny blood vessels in the skin as well as an increase in the blood flow through each of these vessels."  

How cool, or hot, is that?  My skin feels hot after a good frying in the sun because my blood is rushing in to repair the damage caused by the UV radiation.  Way to go skin and blood! Maybe I should help it out by wearing more suncscreen.

Still at work but too bored to work - I need more tea!

I've had a thrilling four questions all day and my brain just refuses to work on any more work (at least I got that book review out of the way!).  Do you want to hear about the weather?  I'm sure you don't so I'll only say that in the last week it's been suspiciously cool (we had a high in the 70s the other day).  While I do dearly love those temps, it just means my body is going to be even more traumatized when it really heats up around here.

Let's see, what else have I been up too?  Oh yeah, last weekend a couple of us trekked to SF to check out the Vivienne Westwood exhibit at the De Young.  Mmmm, I'd never heard of her before (I'm sooooo not into fashion!) but even I found some clothes that I admired and wanted to wear.  Ok, so it was all purple - I admit it!  But it was all too small for me so it's not like I could rip it off the mannequins or anything.  We also shopped, mostly the window variety, on Haight Street.  *drool*  I resisted a multitude of expensive shoes, expensive music, and expensive things I didn't need.  But the Giant Robot store finally got me.  Heh, or let's say I finally had to break open the wallet for some useless, but utterly cute, Japanese crap.  

I started this weekend with attending a Japanese tea ceremony.  Yes, it was the first public tea ceremony being held in the Nakatani Tea Room here in the beautiful basement of the Sac State Library.  It was actually pretty nifty.  I didn't volunteer to sit on my knees for 30 minutes, but I still got a taste of the "sweet" and the tea - both of which were sent special from Japan.  I wasn't so appreciative of the tea (weeeee bit too bitter despite the fact that it wasn't considered a very bitter green tea) but I enjoyed how the lady narrated various parts.  Heh, it's almost like I learned something.  I look forward to attending more in the future (I want to try what I suspect is a nasty thick tea or maybe a nasty more bitter tea).