Blah, blah, provenance, blah...

Clearly, I only thought some of my history texts were boring (ex: the one that seems to consist mainly of infodumps about 18th century Philadelpian marriage and divorce stats) because I had not yet begun to read the articles assigned for my "Principles of Archive Management" class.

I'm sure Terry Cook is a brilliant man, but God, it's like reading Ralph Waldo Emerson. "I have an SAT vocabulary. Now watch me show it off. I could express this concept in two sentences using words of one syllable, but I think I'll take a page and a half and use as many long words as possible. Simple explanations are for the weak!"

Ironically, it's starting to look like a year's worth of keeping records for the airport (done because of an unplanned gap between graduating college and getting accepted into grad school) is going to be as useful to my MLS studies as the actual readings are. Thanks to my former boss's fear of the computer, I've got experience using, updating, and backing up computer databases (as well as explaining them to others in words of one syllable), as well as filing hard copies of records (because everything in the computer had to have a printed back-up as well, and some stuff never made it into the computer).

But positive MLS-related news, I have an interview tomorrow for a possible job in the UMD library. With that, volunteering at the College Park Aviation Museum, and school, I should end up with something approaching a full work schedule.

Meme!

I rarely do memes, but:

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "Five Phrases Batman Will Never Say", or "Five Jobs House Wishes He Had" or "Five Things Dean Will Never, Ever Tell Sam"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun!


Gacked from fabu and azarias