Hey, more Greek!
David has come down with a nasty bug of some kind; it looked like flu at first, but fortunately isn’t turning out to be quite that mean. Even so, I’m hiding in the office churning out library-renovation verbiage and hoping desperately not to catch anything before ACRL.
The clunk of the mailbox was my signal to leave my mini-hermitage, as David certainly shouldn’t be going outside in his condition. Envelope from SLIS, addressed to me, initial para as follows:
We are pleased to inform you that the faculty of the School of Library and Information Studies, at the request of the Beta Beta Epsilon (what, no Greek letters?) Chapter of Beta Phi Mu (hey, gimme some Greek here!) (the International Library Science Honor Society), has selected you as one of the Outstanding Student Scholar Finalists for 2004–2005.
The rest of the letter identifies the actual Outstanding Student Scholar (who isn’t me and probably doesn’t want me shouting her name all over creation, or I would, because I know her and respect her highly) and gives details of the initiation reception.
Scholar, heh, my first reaction to reading the reception date was, “Crud. Isn’t that the same day my RFP for networking class is due?” (Yes, in fact, it is. But I’ll manage.)
So. Summary. The ΒΒΕ chapter of ΒΦΜ seems to be inviting me in. Not half bad, for a scruffy grad-school dropout. But hang-dang it, I have to edit my résumé now.