Back from TLA

I hope to give a detailed report of my Texas Library Association conference experience soon, but for now I wanted to post an observation.

You can tell it's a slow time of year (or at least a slow time of the month) in the departmental library world when you come back after being gone for 3 days and find a total of 3 books having been checked out, no voice mail, and a total of 6 e-mail messages, of the 52 messages waiting in my inbox, requiring action (of which 2 of those only require a quick response).