Last night, C. and I saw Something Rotten. We got wicked cheap tickets, and it was well worth it, even sitting in the nosebleed section! The play was basically fanfiction. It was like someone took everything I love to make fun of Shakespeare for, and all the fun things with Broadway shows and shoved them into a single musical. And while I definitely enjoyed it more than C., he tolerated it for my sake. Because he's a good egg.
(We also noted it was our second time in the Cultural District, our previous time there being for New Year's Eve First Night celebrations.)
Work's been a weird juxtaposition. On the one side, I have an article by way of IBM that I cannot find. I've searched multiple databases, multiple websites, nothing. I've even gone so far as to call IBM directly, though I am still waiting to hear back from them. Yet on the other side, I found an article someone did not even ask for. I'll explain.
Some time ago, I set up alerts using our EBSCO subscriptions. Most are working as want; one is not. I keep tweaking it, but still cannot quite get it to return the articles I want. Well, today, I spent some time poking at it, going so far as plugging the search parameters into the databases to search. And unlike what I see in the daily results, these results are what I wanted. Scrolling the titles to confirm this, I saw one I thought might be relevant to a particular project one of the Geologists has been working on. I quickly took a screenshot of the title and Abstract, and sent it to him an email, "hey, is this something relevant to your project? Want me to download/print it for you?" Answer: yes.
Score 1 for me in understanding what type of articles I am looking for and recognizing them.
On the third hand, I may have been tested on my ability to thought-read when I was sent an article request with no information attached. It took me a moment to realize, and the chuckle. Luckily, I was able to get the article title a few minutes later, so no telepathy required of me today!
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