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Ugh, and I pulled the boba out of the cupboard to make bubble tea and found that the potato in there had rotted and oozed all over the bottom of the boba bag, as well as the box of matzoh meal. Fortunately the bag is plastic. Cleaned up the immediate mess, but there's still a black residue around the edges and it smells foul. It's smelled bad for a while and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. :( Now the whole apartment smells like rotten potato. :( :( :(
Had a good weekend hanging out at home - Dad and I went to Old Sturbridge Village to see Big River (which was very good) and then there was really nothing else on the schedule. It's just as hot down there but less humid and the house gets a good cross-breeze, so I was much more comfortable. I decided, after the conversation with Dad on the way there and back, that since I'm so overwhelmed trying to figure out what to do with my career (or if I should go into something else before I get too old to switch, I'd rather deal with that at 29 than 39) I've got to find a mentor. Went looking to see how other people have handled that, and lots of them say they stayed in touch with professors, which makes no sense to me unless they're adjuncts who also work in museums - but I did find out that the AAM is trying to connect mentors and mentees in collections stewardship, so I filled out their form and will hopefully hear back! Lately nobody is responding to my emails. So hopefully I'll be put in touch with a curator/CM in a prosperous historic house or a living history site or an actual costume collection who can advise me about what I should be doing online to look better to employers, if I do need to be fixated on academic publishing, etc. and I can stop crying about it here.
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Had a good weekend hanging out at home - Dad and I went to Old Sturbridge Village to see Big River (which was very good) and then there was really nothing else on the schedule. It's just as hot down there but less humid and the house gets a good cross-breeze, so I was much more comfortable. I decided, after the conversation with Dad on the way there and back, that since I'm so overwhelmed trying to figure out what to do with my career (or if I should go into something else before I get too old to switch, I'd rather deal with that at 29 than 39) I've got to find a mentor. Went looking to see how other people have handled that, and lots of them say they stayed in touch with professors, which makes no sense to me unless they're adjuncts who also work in museums - but I did find out that the AAM is trying to connect mentors and mentees in collections stewardship, so I filled out their form and will hopefully hear back! Lately nobody is responding to my emails. So hopefully I'll be put in touch with a curator/CM in a prosperous historic house or a living history site or an actual costume collection who can advise me about what I should be doing online to look better to employers, if I do need to be fixated on academic publishing, etc. and I can stop crying about it here.
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I have an IMPORTANT THING to share
May. 10th, 2011 11:17 am(NB It's not really that important)
So, for the past few years I've wanted to get involved with some kind of re-enacting group, but it hasn't been feasible. For several reasons. When I was in Binghamton, I knew I was leaving soon and didn't want to make the social effort to meet a ton of people if I was just going to have to do it again somewhere else. When I was working and going to classes, I had zero free time to do anything. When I lost my job I was halfway through my degree, and I was back to the old "it's way too hard to make that social effort when I'm leaving so soon."
But finishing school means that I'm not planning on picking up and leaving once I get home, because I'll be working in the area. Hopefully the Museum of Dance will employ me quickly (a family friend says they've been expanding the department) and so I won't have to juggle a part-time job and a volunteership/internship, which will give me more free time. First priority goes to my thesis project, of course, but I do have stays already (1730s, but they'll do until I have the time to make proper rounded 1770s ones). Mom will do it with me so the social effort won't be as difficult, and she has a student whose family is with the 2nd Albany, so she can find out how we can get involved without having a soldier in the family.
And when I get home, I'm going to get some polyfill and cheap tights and pad out my dress form properly so I can use it for draping and checking the fit of muslins. Just a few more weeks now.
ETA: And I just got Conspiracy of Kings from the library and it's everything I could have wished for. ♥ Every time Sophos thinks about how he's trying to do something like Eugenides I just squee. Every time.
So, for the past few years I've wanted to get involved with some kind of re-enacting group, but it hasn't been feasible. For several reasons. When I was in Binghamton, I knew I was leaving soon and didn't want to make the social effort to meet a ton of people if I was just going to have to do it again somewhere else. When I was working and going to classes, I had zero free time to do anything. When I lost my job I was halfway through my degree, and I was back to the old "it's way too hard to make that social effort when I'm leaving so soon."
But finishing school means that I'm not planning on picking up and leaving once I get home, because I'll be working in the area. Hopefully the Museum of Dance will employ me quickly (a family friend says they've been expanding the department) and so I won't have to juggle a part-time job and a volunteership/internship, which will give me more free time. First priority goes to my thesis project, of course, but I do have stays already (1730s, but they'll do until I have the time to make proper rounded 1770s ones). Mom will do it with me so the social effort won't be as difficult, and she has a student whose family is with the 2nd Albany, so she can find out how we can get involved without having a soldier in the family.
And when I get home, I'm going to get some polyfill and cheap tights and pad out my dress form properly so I can use it for draping and checking the fit of muslins. Just a few more weeks now.
ETA: And I just got Conspiracy of Kings from the library and it's everything I could have wished for. ♥ Every time Sophos thinks about how he's trying to do something like Eugenides I just squee. Every time.
