Day off yesterday so no posting, but it didn't really help improve a week that only seems to be 'septduum horribulus' (awful 7 days). Started at the weekend when some drumming went horribly awry (rehearsal had been ok!). Tuesday I've already posted about. By Wednesday the real disaster of the week was certain - I appear to have misplaced my diary rather seriously. And today, just to cap it all with managing to look stupid in front of friends, colleagues and the faculty, a researcher friend dropped into the Library to borrow some books. Whilst saying 'hi' she presented one to me and asked if there was any chance of borrowing it overnight despite it's being a reference only item as she pointed out it's yellow sticker on the spine.

Now super alert readers of this blog might spot what's coming.

As it wasn't in my subject area we went in search of the relevant Faculty Librarian and I introduced the pair of them. The researcher repeated her request and of course he immediately pointed out that there wasn't any difficulty as it was a seven day loan item.

I've written here before that one delightful confusion of changing jobs from TheOldPlace is that there they mark one week loans with a green sticker and reference with yellow. Here we reverse that. And in my treacle like brainstate this week - plus being primed by the initial question that mistakenly identified it as 'reference' - I just didn't twig that it was a loanable book.

As I say, how to look stupid in front of friends and work colleagues. Still, no real damage done. Now if only I could find my wretched diary...