The speeches have already been said, so there’s no need to repeat them here. We all know how amazing Eva is. But it’s hard to believe that this day would ever come, even though it really has. Today is Eva’s last day of work before her well-deserved retirement.

Eva’s coworkers in room 122 couldn’t let her leave without planning a little surprise for her. And in grand library tradition, we celebrated with food. We ordered a build-your-own taco buffet from Quesada, and it was a hit!

While none of us have the rapping skills that the 6th floor staff demonstrated at Fern’s recent retirement, we are blessed with a staff member who is pretty amazing with Photoshop. Some of you may not be aware of this, but Eva loves to talk about the movie Ladyhawke. Apparently it was quite the hit with her kids back in the 1980s, and the Wong family watched it frequently over the years. The tragic story of star-crossed lovers Michelle Pfeiffer (who is a hawk during the day and a woman at night) and Rutger Hauer (who is a man during the day and a wolf at night) is apparently quite relevant to the daily work of the Murray Library, since Eva somehow manages to bring it up all the time. So we knew that her retirement party had to have a LADYHAWKE theme! The image you see below is the classic movie poster, with Eva’s face in the place of young Michelle Pfeiffer’s. Quite the resemblance, isn’t it?

Eva quite enjoyed her movie poster surprise.

And because nothing goes better with tacos and 80s movies than cake with faces on it, we also had a cake made with the Eva/Ladyhawke poster on it. (For some reason, no one wanted to eat the piece that had Eva’s face on it though.)

Eva, we will miss you more than you can imagine. We’re sad to see you leave us, but extremely happy to know that you will enjoy your well-deserved retirement after a long and successful career in the library. We hope that you and Jimmy enjoy your yardwork, your fabulous vacations, and more time with kids and grandkids. Just don’t forget to invite us all to that Ladyhawke viewing party, okay? We were serious when we said that there should be one.

Lots of love, from your coworkers.