Oh, the OED. I love them, hard. Ever watch Balderdash and Piffle, where the BBC tries to outfox the OED experts with citations of words? Brilliant stuff.
See, I used to have an arrangement with my librarian (school rather than my town one, admittedly) whereby she didn't really mind how late my books where, because she knew perfectly well I was the only person likely to be checking out biographies of every long-dead rationalist philosopher I could get my hands on, so that was fine. But now, there are two new librarians, one of whom is equally understanding and the other who treats me like a five year old if my books are one day overdue. Argh! It is crazy, and makes me want to do stupid things like pull a 'don't you know who I am??' stunt.
Ahem, anyway. Late library books really are the smallest of sins.
Fandom has ruined my mind.
Yup, pretty much. My problem is often the abbreviations - I see AU, OC etc around and get unduly excited. That's very funny about the UPS though, hee!
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Date: 2007-02-04 06:23 pm (UTC)See, I used to have an arrangement with my librarian (school rather than my town one, admittedly) whereby she didn't really mind how late my books where, because she knew perfectly well I was the only person likely to be checking out biographies of every long-dead rationalist philosopher I could get my hands on, so that was fine. But now, there are two new librarians, one of whom is equally understanding and the other who treats me like a five year old if my books are one day overdue. Argh! It is crazy, and makes me want to do stupid things like pull a 'don't you know who I am??' stunt.
Ahem, anyway. Late library books really are the smallest of sins.
Fandom has ruined my mind.
Yup, pretty much. My problem is often the abbreviations - I see AU, OC etc around and get unduly excited. That's very funny about the UPS though, hee!