New Year catch up

[dungrollin]

Miss H is working late, trying to get her in-tray to managable size
before re-entering RL tomorrow. Carefully, she peels apart a stack of
parchment stuck together with the remains of what look like squashed
insects. Yurrk:

>Dot (who might be persuaded to relax the copyright demands of that
>silly hat photo, in exchange for one of Miss H with a kneazle or two
and a pretty Christmas hat at an amusingly rakish angle...)

C: Well, you got one of me in Virginia Woolf mode, so what are we
waiting for Dr Dung? (She looks like the mad Hatter, very funny).




Dot, having returned from an extended Christmas break (that had far 
too much work in it for her satisfaction) to find more exploding 
transistors and server problems, finally gets back online.

She paces around the catalogue office, sarcastically weighing up 
imaginary handfuls of photograph. "Hmm... Virginia Woolf, amusing 
hat, Virginia Woolf, amusing hat..." She turns round abruptly and 
sits down in a huff. "It's hardly a fair trade!" She glares at the 
floor and mutters, "Should have scoffed all those chocolates myself."

She calms down a bit, pulls a crumpled photo out of a pocket and 
shakes her head, mournfully. "Academic gowns and Holbeinesque 
chapeaux - it's not normal." She gets up and looks at the notice 
board; Miss's picture seems much more autochthonous – there're even 
books in the background. 

Dot swallows her pride, and prepares to chicken out, producing 
another photograph from a pocket and scribbling on the back "I 
thought I'd post a photo of how I spent Christmas instead. Much more 
sensible headgear, I'm sure you'll agree. This was taken about 30 
seconds before I got the seventh and most painful tsetse bite. I 
found some interesting weevils." She pins it to the notice board and 
scurries out before anyone notices, trying to suppress the suspicion 
that Miss has sent the silly hat jpeg to everyone off-list anyway.

Will get back to catalogue stuff this coming weekend, promise, am 
frantically writing emails in bad French for a research proposal due 
in on Friday. Should have gone to Ghana.