Sounds very cool. Christina ----- Original Message ----- From: Carrie Karnos To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:57 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie should be back My vacation was quite fun! I went ziplining in Costa Rica, in the Veragua rainforest. Because the canopy is so high off the ground, there were 9 trees with little platforms around the trunk about 100 feet off the ground. You wear a harness and zip from tree to tree on a pulley system. The trees are anywhere from 30 to 150 feet apart. If you're afraid of heights, this is NOT an adventure for you! Also went through the Panama Canal, which was very interesting. I'm going to get a book about the building of the canal, called The Path Between the Seas. It's supposed to be the best book on the subject. The cruise ship stopped at Aruba, Cartagena (a port in Colombia), and Jamaica. So I got a look at the southern part of the Caribbean. Carrie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 7:34:31 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie should be back Welcome back, Carrie! Hope you had a great vacation. Christina ----- Original Message ----- From: Carrie Karnos To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:32 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie should be back Yes, I'm back, and yes, I'm snowed under. There are over 600 books in the approval queue, which I figure will take me about 30 hours to go through. And of course, I need to handle the student requests and bestsellers that popped up while I was gone. And the rejection queue is still waiting for me... Actually one of my coworkers yelled at me when I got back yesterday. She said that 3 of them couldn't do half my job while I was gone, and that I should have told them how much work I had to do. I said that I've been whining about the amount of work on my plate, and she yelled "No! You didn't whine enough! This is horrible! You need help NOW!" But, since this is the end of the year, there's no money left to hire anyone, so we have to wait until January for the cavalry to ride in and save the day. In the meantime, I REALLY REALLY appreciate your patience while I try to handle everything. Serves me right for leaving, I guess! :-) Carrie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 11:44:20 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Carrie should be back Looking in old messages and quoting an older message from Carrie: " In other news, I'm going to be on vacation from October 31st to November 10th", but my guess is even with someone else filling in, she will be snowed for at least another week or two. She sure does a GREAT job and I, for one, hope she enjoyed her vacation. Smiles. Take care! Valerie Please pray for Doug's Dad & visit his website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/billkoonce To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.