Rebecca

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

lmao I was in fact assigned to a seat right beside someone in this 25% dull airplane

but the flight attendant let me scoot across the aisle

bless

my parents would call this divine grace

oh hot damn there are only 36 of us on this flight

ugh I’m too lazy to log in to our herbarium to see if we have specimens and we had to lock the thing down because of the damnable ai scraper bots

Related to this: make yourself a guide alphabet of particularly weird letters characteristic to your particular scribe

tangle of fuzzy silver leaves with a chartreuse three petaled flower (slightly out of focus)

but like. Spanish moss flowers!!! I knew it was an angiosperm but I had never actually seen the flower before

needs more hair, also needs to go much greyer, but

quite possibly

r midday: WHAT IS THIS BINDER WHAT IS THIS BOOK SPANISH MOSS HAS FLOWERS?????
r late afternoon: what do you mean my 10pm flight is an hour delayed
r now: airport cocktails

r one week ago: oh I didn’t know this library was there, I’ll be there for a funeral next week
r last Friday: airline wants me to delay my flight, I could use the day to visit a library!!!
r this morning: wakes up at 5 to help family pack and clear the airbnb

blood orange something or other, with a similar but darker gradient

(I have also earned this second airport cocktail)

the whole flag folding thing was beautiful! taps was lovely and tear-jerking!! groundskeeper was perfection and I would trade all the rest for him

family: (blinks for a moment)
family: you don’t -?
whgtpd: yeah we used to give them to families but they kept turning up in the trash around town so now we smash them
family:
rebecca: (quietly having minor hysterics)

wild-haired-groundskeeper-in-t-shirt-with-power-drill: we smash them with hammers

very professional man: we are so sorry for your loss, the headstone with the new dates will arrive in 4-6 weeks, we will send you a photo
aunt: what happens to the old one?
vpm: (suddenly has a call or something and disappears, leaving a sense of competence and condolence)

Some cemetery employees have less polished graveside manners than others

sometimes they are the greatest heroes

what a week

and tomorrow is employee appreciation day

guava mimosa, lovely gradient from peach up to orange

I have absolutely earned this airport cocktail

It is one of my favorite parts of the job; right up there with showing other people my library

truly gloriously derpy sixteenth century hippo portrait

I love visiting other people’s libraries so muchhhhhhhh

I’m pretty sure these are sheep

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back:

Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

omfg

someone else has claimed my aisle seat but they waited until after I went to the restroom so I’m not even mad.

(except about the weird monk fruit flavor pretzels)

on the other hand somehow on my almost entirely full flight I was the only person in my row (with my assigned middle seat)

minor miracles

the previous system was elegant and convenient!! but no. let’s add even more rent-seeking.

genuinely impressed by how much worse southwest has made things in such a short time

(yes Heinlein has Issues but this one is at least not awful on the gender front?)

so learning more about the Nuremberg trials has made me realize I need to re-read have space suit, will travel

my high school graduation was held on a military base! and I think they had prom there too sometimes!