In an antediluvian tone

This library closes an hour earlier than usual tonight (10 instead of 11), and then I don't work again until September, except on online reference. That's unfortunate, since I could use some more money. I guess that's the drawback of working at academic libraries, though. They're usually closed when the school is.

Since I'm going to have a considerable amount of time off, I should probably do something fun. bethje and I are planning on going to Clementon Park, and probably Great Adventure again as well, since we have season passes and all. Any other ideas as to what we can do? (I'm sure no one will suggest anything, but I figured I might as well ask anyway.)

I read some more of my World Mythology book, and apparently there's also a flood legend in China. I wonder whether the scholars who associate Noah's flood with a flood of the Black Sea have taken this into account. Really, it's not too unlikely that multiple cultures would have come up with a flood myth on their own. Floods are pretty devastating, after all. The myths aren't necessarily all referring to any one actual event.