Interim REALLY Begins

Tonight was the first formal interim meeting. I know it sounds geeky and smarmy and all that, but I really ENJOY getting to sit with students and hear about their projects. I'm completely blown away by the things that are being studied and the ambitions that these young people have. Every time something goes wrong in my life, I flirt with the idea of changing careers, of wondering if I could make it on writing or editing alone. But the reality is I would really suffer if I didn't get to be in the company of college students on a regular basis.

Speaking of suffering, I was very frustrated with my inability to find books, either in our library or on PASCAL, about the Palermo catacombs. There is a book of photographs that I am itching to get my hands on, but I guess I will have to order it through inter-library loan. I worry what Ms. Cathey must think of me when she processes my orders! All last semester is was H. P. Lovecraft biographies, and now The Living Dead: Inside the Palermo Crypt.