Microfilm shelving project journal: Day 3,468.

I am beyond physical exhaustion. Hallucinations have become more commonplace. I begin to wonder if the purple orangutan really wants to be my friend or if he is merely setting me up. I refuse to be a pawn in his little simian game of chess....

For two and a half days straight now, The Powers That Be have had me moving microfilms one cartful at a time from the microfilm mines behind the Course Reserves Department out onto the floor and shelving them.

I have not had to do this kind of physical work, on my feet constantly, for a long time now. Normally that's what I have minions for, but unfortunately, the type of minions we employ around here do not have the mental capacity to be trusted with a job as mentally taxing as putting microfilms in alphabetical order.

I wish I was joking on that last part.

So that leaves me and my esteemed coworker, Lady Dementia, to get everything hauled out into the front area by the end of the week. I know it doesn't sound terribly hard, but when you're used to sitting at a computer for eight hours a day pushing book carts around and carrying armloads of microfilms around can be incredibly taxing, especially doing it all day long for several days straight. If I hadn't lost about sixty pounds recently I doubt I would have even made it this far. I would have died of exhaustion somewhere among the endless stacks of microfilm where the film-spiders would have found my lifeless corpse and dragged it away for a midnight snack.

Note to self: in regards to film-spiders, invest in flamethrower.

In case you've wondered, this project is a big part of why I've been neglecting my bloggly duties of late. It has eaten up almost all of my time during the day planning and executing it, and at night I've either been spending time with friends to relax or resting to heal my tired, broken, undead body.

Hopefully, however, it will be over by the end of the week and we'll be done picking up the pieces and fixing any errors by sometime next week so I should be able to post more often after that.

Until then, no rest for the wicked.