Nearly forgot to write about the two things that cheered up my dank Tuesday earlier in the week.

Firstly, the book chapter a colleague and I wrote a while back (surely I blogged about that) was published. It's in print only ironically given its about ebooks but you can see the contents page online. Looking forward to seeing it for real. My first professional book chapter. And I believe we get paid not a lot, but not nothing. $150 won't go far between the two of us.

Second thing was weird and fun.
Apparently it was International Hug a Librarian Day. Who makes this stuff up? Not that it was much in evidence where I was where there wasn't a hug to be had. However, a 100 miles down the road I saw a tweet from someone I've met once at a conference and she was after a hug too. I could only send a virtual one but a little later it occurred to me that I knew an educational technologist at the same university. And as I know her and family little better, thought she might be up for translating the virtual into real. And she was. Took them a day to meet up - but job done!