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Apr. 9th, 2016 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotOkay, feeling a bit better this morning. (ICYMI, last night I posted an extended rant/vent about my inability to be either academic or popular and then privated it.) It is something that's been bothering me for a long time - proper academic articles are nearly always about textual, archival sources, and I'm all about the object-based study - not helped by the two bad experiences I've had in trying, but it only seemed like a crisis because a) I've had so much bullshit work lately, extra hours and extra duties, and it's all so mindless and stultifying, and b) I'm waiting to hear back from two jobs I really want (plus those three earlier ones I never heard back from, thx) and suspect I won't get because I'm not academic enough. But I can't get more academic unless I get a job that gives me more scope for it!
Ironically I'm supposed to write an article for our magazine this month. Which you would think would help, but they don't want something object focused, they want me to talk about my job as "curator" (not my position, but they don't listen) and if I'm going to talk about an object they want it to be in the context of how it was acquired and how we take care of it. IT WAS DROPPED OFF BY SOME RANDO AND WE STUCK IT ON A SHELF. We don't take care of anything and so far I haven't come across anything we actually worked to acquire, apart from a late 1830s portrait of a woman that was bought at Sotheby's because they thought it was Clarissa Wright, and it's not.
So this week, I've had to work a twelve hour shift yesterday and I'm working again today (not a full eight hours, I'm going in late), and then tomorrow I have to go to Massena (45 min drive) to walk the Civil War Weekend site for reasons I'm not really privy to, maybe because we're changing the layout? They've done this about 13 times, it seems unnecessary. And then we're having an extra chorus rehearsal from six to nine, because why not? I only have to finish making my gown plus also make a circle skirt with fabric that hasn't arrived yet. (I may have to go to the charity shop.)
Ironically I'm supposed to write an article for our magazine this month. Which you would think would help, but they don't want something object focused, they want me to talk about my job as "curator" (not my position, but they don't listen) and if I'm going to talk about an object they want it to be in the context of how it was acquired and how we take care of it. IT WAS DROPPED OFF BY SOME RANDO AND WE STUCK IT ON A SHELF. We don't take care of anything and so far I haven't come across anything we actually worked to acquire, apart from a late 1830s portrait of a woman that was bought at Sotheby's because they thought it was Clarissa Wright, and it's not.
So this week, I've had to work a twelve hour shift yesterday and I'm working again today (not a full eight hours, I'm going in late), and then tomorrow I have to go to Massena (45 min drive) to walk the Civil War Weekend site for reasons I'm not really privy to, maybe because we're changing the layout? They've done this about 13 times, it seems unnecessary. And then we're having an extra chorus rehearsal from six to nine, because why not? I only have to finish making my gown plus also make a circle skirt with fabric that hasn't arrived yet. (I may have to go to the charity shop.)
