The house is its usual mess or, maybe more of a mess than usual, and we have visitors coming tonight…How are we ever going to get things cleaned up in time? I guess the honest answer is, never, so I should just not worry about it any more. My sister and one of my nieces will be here for the next few days, which’ll be nice. It’s been kind of stormy all day today and the skies are dark with more thunderclouds this evening. We had a city-wide power outage earlier this afternoon which caused quite a bit of consternation in the library since students were studying for final exams. There was even a final exam being given in the library at the time. This kind of event just makes life as a librarian more interesting…