When the students are gone, it is VERY quiet in the library. And for some reason the workmen weren't banging around the ducting like they've been doing for what seems like at least a month.

I made some progress on the latest collection. This is about a woman, born in 1914, who became a doctor. She ended up in Alabama in a very high position. I have two file folders filled with her professional publications.

But what was really interesting today was following the story of a woman who was plagued with unhealing sores and a bunch of other symptoms. They decided that she had been exposed to something in the desert dust in 1946. She was finally cured just before 1960, with a newly developed drug.

Some of the pictures accompanying journal articles about the case are pretty gross. The good news, however, is that a drug was developed that took care of the problem.

It will probably take me two or three more days to get everything sorted out and processed.

About mid-afternoon I had a phone call. Diana had just heard from her agent--and Bantam bought her book and the almost-done successor to it!!!!!

I just checked her journal and she hadn't (yet) posted the news.

Waiting for actual publication will be worse than waiting for Christmas as a little kid.

So I guess it wasn't a quiet day ALL day.