Aug. 13th, 2019 12:37 pm
Mostly about work, then other stuff.
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mizarchivistWelcome to the end of summer-
Time is obnoxiously and inexorably doing the thing of moving one second per second. UGH.
WORK STUFF-
I've been at the same job since late April as a temp in special collections at the library I'm at. I applied for the permanent job as curator, got an interview but was not chosen as a finalist. The finalist has since been chosen and will not be starting til October at the earliest. At this point I'm actively-ish looking for the next gig but also sticking around til new person shows up ... unless I get an amazing offer in the meantime. I'm pretty happy with how things are going at the moment.
My main job is to hold down the fort and keep things running. It's behind a locked door, but still open to the public and it's not uncommon to get drop ins. Management has been exceptionally kind, thoughtful, and flexible about the limitations of this one hooman. I enjoy and get on well with the staff and have gotten to know a few of them, which feels pretty good. My main task was to write the documentation for how things go as much as possible in the 3 months between getting hired and the curator retiring. I hit all the marks that I identified as critical. It all got a coherent structure for the documentation itself, too. It was deeply stressful getting that sorted out and traversing the political / interpersonal waters that comes with a new space. But I got through and all's well in this moment.
My current commute is idyllic. The best way to get there is riding my bike from my house to the commuter rail that crosses Moody St. in Waltham. I use the paths along the Charles. Let me just say that again: I get to go RIDE MY BIKE. AS PART OF MY COMMUTE! That's a thing that has been strikingly absent since we moved to Newton. Turns out it's a key part of my maintaining better mental health. I don't think it'll be so great once the bike-friendly weather ends: I'm not keen on riding in snow or the dark. But cross that bridge when we come to it. In the meantime, I have the time and space to drop off the kiddo and get to the train while exercising, not needing a bus pass, and communing with the trail. Also I rather like the commuter rail when it's not broken. Reverse commute FTW!
CONSUMABLE MEDIA STUFF
Time is obnoxiously and inexorably doing the thing of moving one second per second. UGH.
WORK STUFF-
I've been at the same job since late April as a temp in special collections at the library I'm at. I applied for the permanent job as curator, got an interview but was not chosen as a finalist. The finalist has since been chosen and will not be starting til October at the earliest. At this point I'm actively-ish looking for the next gig but also sticking around til new person shows up ... unless I get an amazing offer in the meantime. I'm pretty happy with how things are going at the moment.
My main job is to hold down the fort and keep things running. It's behind a locked door, but still open to the public and it's not uncommon to get drop ins. Management has been exceptionally kind, thoughtful, and flexible about the limitations of this one hooman. I enjoy and get on well with the staff and have gotten to know a few of them, which feels pretty good. My main task was to write the documentation for how things go as much as possible in the 3 months between getting hired and the curator retiring. I hit all the marks that I identified as critical. It all got a coherent structure for the documentation itself, too. It was deeply stressful getting that sorted out and traversing the political / interpersonal waters that comes with a new space. But I got through and all's well in this moment.
My current commute is idyllic. The best way to get there is riding my bike from my house to the commuter rail that crosses Moody St. in Waltham. I use the paths along the Charles. Let me just say that again: I get to go RIDE MY BIKE. AS PART OF MY COMMUTE! That's a thing that has been strikingly absent since we moved to Newton. Turns out it's a key part of my maintaining better mental health. I don't think it'll be so great once the bike-friendly weather ends: I'm not keen on riding in snow or the dark. But cross that bridge when we come to it. In the meantime, I have the time and space to drop off the kiddo and get to the train while exercising, not needing a bus pass, and communing with the trail. Also I rather like the commuter rail when it's not broken. Reverse commute FTW!
CONSUMABLE MEDIA STUFF
- Reading as fast as possible: Alisha Rai's The Right Swipe. I love her passion. She's one of 4 romance authors I follow. (... Huh. Apparently I've not gone on at great length about my 4 favorite romance authors, so will have to do so later.) I believe hers was the first romances I ever got into and there's a good reason. She just PULLS you in and makes you care about these people. I have a twinge of grumpy about "WHY do you have to be so good and why don't you have more things for me to read that I've not yet read??"
- Reading to kiddo: Wings of Fire, as fast as we can go- currently on book 9, Talons of Power. Although she asked about Harry Potter 7, which I said we could do after we're done w/ 9. The anxiety I had about the fraught of HP7 diminished entirely because Wings of Fire is bloodthirsty and she's been sturdy throughout.
- Audio book: Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini, audio, about Elizabeth Keckley. It pulls a great deal from Keckley's memoirs and from primary sources. It's my first book by this author. I feel like she definitely has a historian's persuasion, but is itching to set the scene and fill in the dialog, so had to rework it into a novel instead of a history. Also, if she did, it'd be a redo of Keckley's work, IMO.
- Podcasts: Bawdy Storytelling with Dixie de la Tour. Best podcast ever. Go listen. Go support if you can. Savage Love podcast w Dan Savage (per usual- this is a weekly ritual that I never miss)
- TeeVee-- Brooklyn 99 and Lucifer- I watch with Jaime; Great British Bakeoff - with ursa_cerulean ; So You Think You Can Dance-- season 16?! Dear god... - with tikibar and ursa; Dear White People season 3, Outlander S1, Queer Eye S4, Madame Secretary S3- those are all mine and on my time-table. + whatever else I'm not thinking of or run across.
- Youtube: I had been a staunch Vlogbrothers fan for years and then got out of the habit of watching their new content. I started back up again this week and they are still so good, so pure. I love them to the edge of the world and back and I'm glad and grateful they are in the world and creating content that they share. I haven't given up entirely on my other content creator subscriptions, but I'm not going out of my way to catch up on them.
- Misc: whatever drwex sends me in trailers- a weekly ritual and one of the best bits of Friday (or Saturday if he doesn't share til then)
- I found a therapist that I think actually fits. Now I need to calm down and be patient with the process. But, I see her every Friday and it's a great sign that I think about what she says and look forward to our next session. This was 100% not true of the last therapist, so I'm glad I severed that relationship and found this one.
- My child is turning 8 next week. What even. Second grade- still waiting to hear who the teacher is. So excite!
- I've been sort of on art hiatus, because I can't get purchase on it. I need to jump start that back into life.
- I wrote an article for the local archivist group newsletter. A thing that required I consider a manual of style instead of whatever I want like I do here. It was fun and a challenge
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