Monday, July 13, 2009
The saga continues.
I told my prof about the leakage problem and guess what he replied? He told me to go to the staff pantry opposite his room and put the wet books into the REFRIGERATOR to dry them out. He wanted me to put books that have bundles of dust hanging on them and strange yellow fluids seeping out of them into a space for FOOD. That brings cross-contamination to new levels. And the staff pantry has restricted access, so I would have had to explain to the people at the General Office why I wanted to go into the pantry...
Now I can see why people often joke about how getting a Ph.D means getting "Permanent Head Damage".
In the end, my sister brought along a hairdryer to blow the books dry. One of them now looks like cabbage with pink and black splotches though.
kaoru said at 7:15 PM
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Yesterday my sister and I went to my prof's (who shall remain unnamed for reasons that will soon become clear) office to continue labelling the books in his library and rearranging the shelves, and we were greeted with a big surprise.
His ceiling seemed to have sprung a leak, and there were pools of water on his desk and on the floor. Later we discovered that water had soaked through some of the books we left on the floor from the previous session (oops), and the pages were all limp and the ink from his written notes had smudged all over the pages. Even the dye from the book covers was dissolving and leaving rectangular prints on the floor.
So I had to tell the General Office people about the leak and hopefully they did something about it this morning, especially since it has been raining heavily today. However, my prof can rejoice that his box of GYM SHORTS (which I thought he had brought home before he left for sabbatical, but nooo, he had simply stuffed the box into the bottom-most shelf of his bookcase when I wasn't looking!!) is safe from the rain.
kaoru said at 12:21 AM
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