A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Bored

From:          Elizabeth 
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Wednesday, March 17, 1999 4:54 PM
Subject:       Bored
 
I have about 45 minutes of work left and am really restless-bored.  It has been slow.  I get anxious because I could really use the time to study, but I feel trapped here.  I don't study at work, at least blatantly.  I do a few school related things occasionally, but only discretely, if it is truly slow and I have all my "research" work done.  I always have other "housekeeping" tasks, but they are pretty mindless, and I can't get into them.  I have one project on deck to create a check in system for the 80 journals we get by using Excel.  However, I have a paper system going that actually works quite well, and is probably easier to use.  Besides, what happens when the computer is down.  When I went to the Excel Class I said "when you learn Excel, everything becomes a spreadsheet"--my version of when you have a hammer everything becomes a nail.  I just stopped to chat with someone who told me porno is being downloaded on the library computer.  Like I don't know.  I know its the resident doctors, but if that's what they want to do, that's what they want to do.  Elizabeth

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