Sometimes, it seems that the more free time I have, the less inclined I feel to update this thing. And it's not like I've been putting that time to good use; sure, I'll get some stuff done around the house and on the computer, but when I briefly consider posting, I think, "Nah, nothing too newsworthy," or I'll feel like there'd be too much to type ( Read more... )

I was sitting in my comfy but stifling gray armchair last night listening to the end of the Firesign Theatre tetralogy when fireworks began to erupt. Not just low-grade pyrotechnics like firecrackers and Roman candles-no, there was bigger stuff, like peonies and other effects that burst above the treeline. I heard bellows of "Uh-MER-ick-kuh!" from ( Read more... )

I managed to get through the end of the semester okay. I generally got all of my major assignments done early so that I wouldn't feel so stressed out this time around (and so I wouldn't have to be up until 5:00 in the morning to finish anything). In the meantime, I've been putzing around on the Internet, finishing Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise, and ( Read more... )

In preparation for my position with USC's Digital Collections department, I've been toying around with an old copy of Dreamweaver to create a mock-up of a typical collection home page as practice, not unlike this page for the Bonds Conway Papers. Without access to an actual collection of papers and other memorabilia, I've begun to craft a fictional ( Read more... )

In other good job-related news, not only does Jenny have a summer position at Camp Santanoni, but she also just received acknowledgment of her acceptance as a Winterthur research fellow! This means she'll be spending pretty much the entire summer from May 1 to mid-August out of town. Looks like it'll just be me and Gidget as roommates. I suppose I' ( Read more... )

Last week, Jenny forwarded me a job posting from the history department listserv for a position at USC's Digital Collections. I did a lot of digitization work for the Carolina Bands Collection and the Digital Sheet Music Project as a volunteer before I started my master's program, and since I had attended a presentation by the head of Digital ( Read more... )

I finally picked up my corrected eyeglasses on Monday, one month to the day after I picked up the original pair. The prescription is much better-I don't really feel like one eye is significantly weaker than the other.

So, I went to Virginia with Jenny last week to look at wedding venues. Here's a (sort of) quick recap…

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Sunday: Drove six hours ( Read more... )

Last week involved a bit of adventure. USC's Moving Image Research Collections held their annual film inspection and was looking for volunteers. Over the course of three days, I got up at 7:00 a.m. to join other volunteers and MIRC staffers on a trip to Fort Jackson, where much of the institution's film collections are housed ( Read more... )

The blurring I noticed the day I got my new glasses stuck around. It seems that the prescription I got in Indiana wasn't quite right, so I took the glasses back to the shop that made them last week. After waiting over an hour (because they couldn't find my file-because I didn't have the type of file they were looking for), I was informed that I'd ( Read more... )

My first pair of glasses came in. I'm still getting used to the prescription-for some reason, near objects appear to be smaller, probably due to some parallax distortion. (To see what I mean, try this experiment: The next time you're riding in a car with sunglasses on, look out the window with a lens on one eye only. If you switch which eye is ( Read more... )