Linda had a wonderful trip to New Orleans and she adores gumbo. I have to write that down to get it out of my brain as she has told me umpteen times since her return earlier this week.

It’s great that she had a good trip. She’s been looking forward to it all year and used all her annual leave, but I cannot take one more moment of her tourist stories or the photos on her phone. I even volunteered to do extra re-shelving work this afternoon in an effort to escape the issue desk and her chatter.

As it turned out, that wasn’t my most fortunate of moves to make. It did get me away from the desk, but for considerably longer than I had hoped. In fact I will be away from the desk for about a week at my current rate of progress.

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