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Things:

- I am apparently really boring lately. Alas. I keep half-making posts and then deciding I don't want to post them and deleting them. It's irritating.

- But I am not going to be boring this weekend, because I am going to Oregon for a Northwest Heathen Gathering thingie. Which we are apparently calling Jambermoot. This will be my first time interacting with other actual heathens, so I am excited and a bit nervous. Quite a bit, really. Mostly because I realized yesterday that the other traveling-and-doing-things-on-my-own thing that I do is the Lovecraft film festival, which really only requires me to sit in a dark room watching movies and not talk to people. This one will probably require actual conversation. Still! I am determined to have fun and not let my ridiculous shyness get the better of me.

- This trip also requires me to drive to Oregon rather than taking a train, so if I never post again it's because I have gotten horribly lost and possibly eaten by a troll or something.

- On another note and speaking of the Lovecraft film festival - hey, look, Guillermo del Toro might actually be making At the Mountains of Madness! I would say that I am cautiously excited about that but it would be a lie - I'm just excited. Antarctica! Shuggoths! Whee!

- I have been a bit between books of late and recently started trying to reread Valley of Fear because it's one of the few Sherlock Holmes stories that I think I've only read once, that first time somewhere in elementary school when I spent one summer reading the whole Canon. I'm about a chapter in and yeah, I have no recollection of this at all. Maybe there was a Pinkerton in it somewhere? I don't know. Though I'm sure I will find out. However! I found this and had to share it because it's about the funniest Sherlock Holmes cover I've ever seen. I kinda want all of the Sherlock Holmes stories with covers like that, don't you?

- I think that I am done with summer. I want to be able to wear layers and long-sleeved shirts and boots again. I miss my pretty clothes.


And those are my thoughts this morning.

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One of my coworkers overheard me talking to a patron and told me that I am admirably clear and concise when dealing with the public.

I think that I will just accept the compliment, rather than admitting that the reason I am clear and concise when dealing with the public is that my goal in any conversation with people I don't know (and some with people I do) is to make the conversation end as quickly as possible.