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[kbk]

mmmmmango! I bought myself mangoes yesterday - they were on offer and a reward for getting through my first day, and I ate one last night and one just there. Yum. I always forget how much I like fruit in general and certain fruits in particular, and of course I should not get mangoes due to their travel-miles but oh well.

I have now had two days of work and they have gone quite well. There are three other students who started at the same time. We have been working in pairs down in the basement, measuring how much shelf space the periodicals take up, by journal and by date. They are on movable shelves to save space so we get to wind them along, which is terribly exciting! But this morning, a man did not check the open aisle before winding the shelves along...

We almost got squashed!

And we had to yell and tell him to stop winding because we left a kickstool and ran the wrong way, out of not thinking, because, hey! the shelves were moving! But having the stool in there stopping the shelves could have thrown them off their tracks, or broken the stool, or both. And for the rest of the day whenever we heard shelves moving, we flinched - they were always in one of the other sections, thankfully.

I am tttiiirrreeeddd. *blink* *blink* *bbbllliiinnnkkk*

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[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Hee! The university where I went to grad school had automated movable shelves for most of their bound journals, so I'm pretty sure they *wouldn't* move if somebody was in one of the aisles. (I don't know if it worked on motion sensors or what?) But then, I never wanted to stick around long enough to find out, so I always just grabbed the journal I was looking for & hopped out.

[kbk]

The library that my sister works in has electronic shelves and she says they are crap because they keep breaking and once they are broken you can't move them until they are fixed, obviously.

I had another incident today, where the woman had checked the aisle, but I came through the door and started down to get to the second set, where I'm working, and halfway down the walls started moving... so I skipped out quickish and laughed and she apologised.

Great fun.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Travel miles is actually quite a small bit of overall footprint say Fair Trade people. Something hothoused in Europe is probably actually eviller. *looks sternly at Holland and its tulips* And yes, Fair Trade setup have an interest in telling me this, but it is a reasonable point. Your mangoes may have been carbonny to get here but chances are they were pretty OK before that. Thus an occasional one is not evil, oh no.

You are not ded of shelves. Good.

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Also, imported exotic fruit supporting developing world farmers is way more legitimate than the crazy food miles on some UK-grown stuff. It's things grown just down the road from you, but then driven to Falmouth for packing, then to Llandudno for warehousing, then back to your local shop that make me go arg!

Mmmm, mangoes. I may be biased on this issue too.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

But if it's somehow cheaper for Tesco how can we possibly argue with that?

My Fruit More Travelled is pomegranates. They have to be Middle Eastern from dubious regimes because Spanish ones are all sweet and ick and clearly this is appropriate prioritising. Oh, and Braeburn apples flown in absolutely unjustifiably out of season from New Zealand. I have tried to like closer apples. I have failed.

Why is everything so very complicated? No wonder I've been asleep for about four days.

[kbk]

Braeburns are very nice, though.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

They really really are.

It's only the planet, after all. I'm sure it likes being warm.

[kbk]

Mangoes are lovely.

The amount of in-country travel does not make sense, does it? It seems they travel more than there is room to travel.

[kbk]

That's all right then.

I may be ded of tired by Friday. Yawwwwwwn.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Arg, dedness not good. But resultant sleep sometimes nicer than tired-from-nothing type of sleep, so if can avoid actual death it may all become nicer soon?