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Happy Lammas, everyone! The weather has finally cooled back down to normal (thank all the gods that ever were) so I am baking bread. Alas, I have to go to work today, so it's just a quick bread - no yeast this time. Still, it'll be tasty.

Also, since it is a harvest festival day, I am going to talk about my little back porch herb garden. It is growing like crazy - the heat seemed to just make my plants happier. (Hell, Dad even has a couple of tomatoes.) Last night I made mint tea for the first time with mint I had dried, rather than with the fresh leaves. It worked out marvelously well, I thought. So I'll have dried mint and basil and lemon balm for tea all winter, at this rate.

My chamomile just doesn't seem to want to grow, though. Alas. Next year, I'll have to try starting that with seedlings, rather than growing it from seed myself.

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In which my job is occasionally totally awesome:

- I picked up a phone call this morning and the man on the other end said, "I'm trying to find out how to spell something. Y'know those worms that live in the water and bore into ships? I think they're called 'teredo'. Do you know how to spell that?" (As a matter of fact, I do. Hurrah for sounding things out as though they are words in my high school Spanish class!)

- A lady came in who's visiting from Arizona and wanted to know if she could get a temporary card. Not only was I perfectly willing and able to do that but we had a movie she'd wanted to see for months, right there on our shelf.

- One of our regular patrons - she's a little younger than me and a semi-closeted geek - came in this morning to pick up a hold which happened to be a Star Trek novel with Spock on the cover. She looked a little sheepish to be checking it out and I know that I am always helped with that problem by finding a kindred spirit, so I asked if she'd read any of Diane Duane's Original Series novels. She had not - in fact, this was her first ever Star Trek novel - but she looked a lot happier to not be the nerdiest person in the room and hell, I just got paid to talk about Star Trek novels. Overall win.

Three awesome things and we've only been open for less than an hour. Today is pretty damned good.