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It's Janet's last day opening the library, and she'd truthfully hoped to be a bit better-dressed for it. Sadly, she's down to her last jogging outfit--lavender shorts and a black t-shirt that was a little too short for her to be comfortable in it--and since she's out of clean socks, she's running around the school barefoot. Her sandals have gone missing since last summer, and she's not about to wear her running shoes without socks.

But! The last day of the term was library aide party day, no matter how silly she looks, and so she's hauled a couple of shopping bags filled with gourmet foods--Dr. Pierson was duly harassed for his credit card as forfeit for abandoning them to teach history, and also, Professor Wagner was just too nice for that kind of harassment--so she unlocked the door, flipped on the lights, and set out a bunch of ~~mod your own yummies~~ food and drinks behind the Collections Desk. Technically, it was just for the library aides, but they were all nice women. ~~Hush, you.~~ So roomies and friends and could probably be persuaded to share.

Random passers-by might even have luck too. As long as none of them had any overdue library books. Or were willing to accept a malleting and returned their book first.

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Angela began to pile a plate with hummus and pita, cookies, cheeses, and a stray grape or two so she could pretend it was healthy. In her desperation for something to wear, she had cut the sleeves off of a faded babydoll-style flannel dress.

"This is an amazing spread," she told Janet.

"We should send a thank-you card to Dr. Pierson for sponsoring it," said Janet, giggling. "Even if it was unwillingly and under threat of malleting. And thanks. God, after an entire year of the library, we deserve this."

"How is he?" Angela wondered, nibbling on a cookie. "I haven't seen him around in forever. Nice of him to pay for all this, either way."

"He's trying to decide if he's going to stick around for the summer," said Janet. "Or if he wants to explore the unknown wilds of Special Collections. Parker and I were considering bribing the library to lock him in."

Angela choked a little at that. "What has he done to deserve that?" she asked. "It already ate at least one professor."

"Generally, he's been his usual pain in the neck self." Janet laughed. "Besides, it's not like the library would really do anything bad to him. I think. He did take care of it for a semester."

"Would it feed him and stuff, do you think?" Angela asked idly. Then she shrugged, deciding this must be one of those things she would never understand because she started late. "So I take it you're here all summer."

"I think it would. I mean, as long as he kept it all away from the books." Janet managed to keep a straight face for that, even. "All summer long, yeah. Though I might go on vacation for a week or so before the summer semester starts."

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