Last day at work for the year.

The rest of the University (and almost certainly TheOldPlace) are clearing out at lunchtime. Here the library has a directive from above to be open till 5pm. So open we are, and at work we'll be.

Still, I quite like this time of year when it is quiet and I could get on with things in preparation for the conference in January. And I did take the liberty of an excessively long lunch break.

Come 4.55 and even my boss is telling me to go home. Five minutes to pack up and log out. But I've barely even seen a student all day, never mind interacted with one, so it should have come as absolutely no surprise that as I'm switching off the light dead on 5 I get an enquiry.

And not a particularly quick one either as I get in the subtleties of database access from offcampus over Christmas. Still, I could answer the question and I suppose it did make it worth being there till then. It only remained to really have to run to catch the ferry I needed. I think I may have lost a glove in the process - we'll see, next year.

But this is me signing off for 2006 and back at the beginning of January.