The other day a student came into our office to ask me about a room request she'd put in online. I schedule classrooms at UC Berkeley for anything that is not an academic class - about 40,000 reservations a year. What with the beginning of the semester and the onset of midterm reviews, I'm swamped right now. So although I greeted the student, I didn't stop working on the computer, doing a room search for a request. When I noticed that she stopped talking, I looked at her and said, "Go ahead....
