Dammit, October!

Stop being all dark and rainy!

A beloved colleague who moved on to grad school left me her space heater. I am very grateful, as I don't believe the heat in our office is actually working.

The Red Heater

The heater won't turn off! The button I thought was the off button just makes it turn side-to-side! It's like I'm trapped in the fairy tale The Red Shoes, only instead of shoes that I desperately wanted but then can't get to stop dancing, it's a heater I desperately wanted and now can't get to stop heating!

(I unplugged it. I really do need to figure out how this thing works, though.)

Mapping

I'm making a map of everywhere my department's content has gone. I think I'm equal parts amused and embarrassed by how much geography I'm learning here. I now know more about where cities in Spain and Brazil are, in relationship to each other...Also, it's really, really hard to fill in a lot of the random cities in the middle of the US when you don't have state lines and the entire country is slightly tilted and distorted because it's a global projection on a flat image. Damn you, Knoxville!