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[pylduck]

I went on a cleaning frenzy last night. I've been getting a lot of packages in the mail lately -- ordered books, an electronic piano from my sister, and so on -- and have accumulated a lot of cardboard boxes. I didn't get all of them collapsed and taken out to the overflowing recycling dumpster, but I got some of them out. I also cleared off enough of the kitchen table to see half of it (it's a big table). I still need to do a lot of work filing away papers or getting rid of them. And I need to figure out how to fit my books somewhere on the full bookshelves. Maybe it's time to weed through books and pass them on to worthy readers (they're just sitting around at my place). I also cleaned up the bathroom a bit. It's seemingly more mildewy these days, needing cleaning more frequently. I would not be surprised if the mold and mildew levels in my apartment have skyrocketed since the flooding. Boo. We left the old apartment in large part because it was such a moldy place.

Now I'm photocopying board packets at work. These are what the editorial advisory board looks at when they decide whether or not to publish a book. They include all the readers' reports, affiliation information for all the readers, authors, and editors, and the introduction to the book. I'm keeping the poor photocopier quite busy this morning. How ever did people do things before photocopiers, though?