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( Well, it's nice to know I sleep /sometime/ )

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We all take turns staffing the ref desk four hours at a time during the summer, and today's my first turn. And as it's the summer and the beginning of the semester, there's nobody much here, and the only action the ref desk is getting is phone calls wanting to know what the hours are (the main library number rigns at the ref desk first).

So first: I've just bought Bangkok 8, a crime novel set in Bangkok, and I'm wondering if anyone who read this knows how to pronounce the main character's name: Sonchai Jitpleecheep. It seems like that's a fairly straightforward phonetic rendering there, but it's also a running joke that no farang (foreigner) can pronounce his name correctly, and it gets said a different way every time, so now I'm second-guessing my original idea.

And I mentiond on homasse's journal that I should maybe post a few stories of TEH EVOL ASSISTANT, who I worked with a few years ago, because people would probably find them funny. So, to kill some time here in between games of Bookworm and Dynomite, I shall.

( Click here for TEH EVOL )

More later on her. And maybe I'll write some about the crazy curator at the job previous to that one. I am so happy that everyone here at my current job seems to be normal and easy to get along with and not totally bugfuck crazy.

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A quote from near the beginning of Bangkok 8. The narrator is a Bangkok cop and a devout Buddhist, as is his partner, who is the person the narrator's referring to in the passage:

A more advanced soul than I, he gives no sign of the disgust he feels at being trapped in this pollution called life on earth. He would not wish to poison anybody else's mind. Nevertheless, he smacks his hand somewhat violently against the glass of the sentry box and yells at them to wake the fuck up.

I like it so far and sincerely hope that this continues through the rest of the book, because there's a sequel out called Bangkok Tattoo.

I also bought Mary Gentle's A Sundial in a Grave: 1610. Lois McMaster Bujold's The Hallowed Hunt is due out in a few days, and I'm awaiting it with anticipation.

[ edit ] I love playing Bookworm, but I end up spending far too much time going "Snarvid is a PERFECTLY good English word, I'm sure!"