I just realized I have two weeks vacation to take before the end of June. This means I likely will not get quite as much work as I had planned in the next month or so. I will take a week off for moving and random days in May. Plus I will gone the second week of August and a little more going to SAA and visiting Rafia (AGAIN--she better feel privileged.)I am also dogsitting and housesitting through the first week of July, giving me a great deal of time to get the house in order before really moving. I've been camping out the last couple of nights to get away from the loud and smoky environment I've been living in for the last few months. Freedom is HERE!
I need to get working on my poster for SAA--better start that this week so it is not last minute.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Fun and Educational things I did this week
(not necessarily in any kind of order)
1. Visited the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, in the Texas School Book Depository. I thought it was an excellent museum, with good integration of video footage of various aspects of JFK's assassination with the museum exhibits. It is really weird to stand in the place Lee Harvey Oswald stood.
2. Fun with Rafia's WACKY GPS system. It often lies.
3. Engaging in shenanigans with Rafia's colleagues.
4. Southfork Ranch, where Dallas was filmed (outside scenes anyway). Oddly enough, we went there on my insistence. EPIC photos were taken there.
5. Ft. Worth Zoo: many active and adorable animals lived here including black bears, a white tiger, lion cubs, cheetahs, meerkats, otters, and more.
6. Kimball Art Museum: A nice art museum, with terrible signs for parking. But a nice museum.
7. Free IMAX videos including "Sea Monsters" and "Extreme". I preferred "Sea Monsters" while Rafia preferred "Extreme"
8. Movies watched: X Files I Want To Believe which I have decided was a dream and thus will pretend didn't really happen, Hamlet 2 which was mostly funny, and Wall-E, which I loved, but wept throughout.
9. Photo Shoots of Rocky, Uniqua, DJ Pinja, Bearning Love, Renee, and a nameless blue reindeer
10. Delicious foods were eaten, possibly to the point of gluttony.
11. San Antonio Missions National Historical Park was wonderful.
12. Riverwalk in San Antonio was sort of cool, if you like that sort of thing. I sort of do. Love San Antonio, and the Southwest, overall.
13. Much, much more!!!
1. Visited the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, in the Texas School Book Depository. I thought it was an excellent museum, with good integration of video footage of various aspects of JFK's assassination with the museum exhibits. It is really weird to stand in the place Lee Harvey Oswald stood.
2. Fun with Rafia's WACKY GPS system. It often lies.
3. Engaging in shenanigans with Rafia's colleagues.
4. Southfork Ranch, where Dallas was filmed (outside scenes anyway). Oddly enough, we went there on my insistence. EPIC photos were taken there.
5. Ft. Worth Zoo: many active and adorable animals lived here including black bears, a white tiger, lion cubs, cheetahs, meerkats, otters, and more.
6. Kimball Art Museum: A nice art museum, with terrible signs for parking. But a nice museum.
7. Free IMAX videos including "Sea Monsters" and "Extreme". I preferred "Sea Monsters" while Rafia preferred "Extreme"
8. Movies watched: X Files I Want To Believe which I have decided was a dream and thus will pretend didn't really happen, Hamlet 2 which was mostly funny, and Wall-E, which I loved, but wept throughout.
9. Photo Shoots of Rocky, Uniqua, DJ Pinja, Bearning Love, Renee, and a nameless blue reindeer
10. Delicious foods were eaten, possibly to the point of gluttony.
11. San Antonio Missions National Historical Park was wonderful.
12. Riverwalk in San Antonio was sort of cool, if you like that sort of thing. I sort of do. Love San Antonio, and the Southwest, overall.
13. Much, much more!!!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
An update to rival Rafia's
I realize that my blog will never, ever, compare to Rafia's blog both in her dazzling visual array and culturally relevant content.
Yet, I will try to update my blog. An ongoing project at work is to go through our manuscript collections and discover which ones need a finding aid, which ones have a finding aid but only in a printout from an ancient word processing system, and which ones have a finding aid but lack essential information as required by DACS. After my spreadsheet is complete, I will develop a plan for processing collections and completing finding aids for collections that have been minimally processed (Hey, Earlham has always believed in MPLP), develop the easiest methods for getting the legacy finding aids up to current technology, and update the finding aids that just need a few more pieces of information. At the same time, we are going to implement an EAD project in the next year.
Most of the students and researchers I have talked to like the idea of having more information available regarding the content of our collections, but what they really want is everything digitized so they can search it and view it without having to come in. I'll get that done in the next couple of months, probably.
On a personal note, my mom is visiting this weekend and I'm looking forward to it! I'm also looking forward to Thanksgiving, when I will take my first days off since I started work in July. I love my job, but I know I'm going to be ready for a day off or two by then.
Yet, I will try to update my blog. An ongoing project at work is to go through our manuscript collections and discover which ones need a finding aid, which ones have a finding aid but only in a printout from an ancient word processing system, and which ones have a finding aid but lack essential information as required by DACS. After my spreadsheet is complete, I will develop a plan for processing collections and completing finding aids for collections that have been minimally processed (Hey, Earlham has always believed in MPLP), develop the easiest methods for getting the legacy finding aids up to current technology, and update the finding aids that just need a few more pieces of information. At the same time, we are going to implement an EAD project in the next year.
Most of the students and researchers I have talked to like the idea of having more information available regarding the content of our collections, but what they really want is everything digitized so they can search it and view it without having to come in. I'll get that done in the next couple of months, probably.
On a personal note, my mom is visiting this weekend and I'm looking forward to it! I'm also looking forward to Thanksgiving, when I will take my first days off since I started work in July. I love my job, but I know I'm going to be ready for a day off or two by then.
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