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I have a small gig at CU Denver (University of Colorado in Denver), where I sort out the collection of a fairly recently deceased female professor in Architecture/Building Preservation. She did a lot of research on early 20th century Chicago buildings, mainly for a book. It's an incredibly interesting collection, the only sad part of it is that she's dead (well, that and my pay).
As you may understand I don't do this project for the money, but because I love what she researched and wrote about, and I also love this kind of classical organic Archival work. It's back to basics for me, back to history, back to what I love.
And in the future I might not do that ever, because if I'm gonna work as a servant for the US judicial branch I'll earn more money than you normally do as a proper archivist, but I'll get less respect and people will call me things as "clerk" or "records manager" (the latter if I'm lucky), and this is the sad truth about the business.
But this is a wonderful collection, and I'm creating a wonderful description and finding-aid for it. And I'll get a nice shiny piece of paper with the University stamp on it, telling any future employers that I'm loooved by the faculty.
In other news, a bloke dressed in a tuxedo entered the Capitol building in Denver the other day, just a block from where I normally dwell (at the CO State Archives). This dressed up guy tried to enter Governor Ritter's office, was led out - since he was shouting that he was THE EMPEROR, and then suddenly everything went downhill when he pulled a gun and the police had to come and shoot him dead.
It's a good thing my mommy doesn't read American newspapers, or she'd forbid me to live here, particularly after she'd heard that I'm normally only 5 minutes from where this happened.
Oh, btw, I read in the Denver Post today that the guy was valedictorian of his class when he graduated high school. Why this was somehow important is beyond my recognition.
Also: I think that in the last Harry Potter book J.K. Rowling will finally address the not so secret wishes of all her gargantuan fandom hordes and try to please them all at once with sex and debauchery. ( Ooh cock, WARNING SPOILER ALERT!! )
As you may understand I don't do this project for the money, but because I love what she researched and wrote about, and I also love this kind of classical organic Archival work. It's back to basics for me, back to history, back to what I love.
And in the future I might not do that ever, because if I'm gonna work as a servant for the US judicial branch I'll earn more money than you normally do as a proper archivist, but I'll get less respect and people will call me things as "clerk" or "records manager" (the latter if I'm lucky), and this is the sad truth about the business.
But this is a wonderful collection, and I'm creating a wonderful description and finding-aid for it. And I'll get a nice shiny piece of paper with the University stamp on it, telling any future employers that I'm loooved by the faculty.
In other news, a bloke dressed in a tuxedo entered the Capitol building in Denver the other day, just a block from where I normally dwell (at the CO State Archives). This dressed up guy tried to enter Governor Ritter's office, was led out - since he was shouting that he was THE EMPEROR, and then suddenly everything went downhill when he pulled a gun and the police had to come and shoot him dead.
It's a good thing my mommy doesn't read American newspapers, or she'd forbid me to live here, particularly after she'd heard that I'm normally only 5 minutes from where this happened.
Oh, btw, I read in the Denver Post today that the guy was valedictorian of his class when he graduated high school. Why this was somehow important is beyond my recognition.
Also: I think that in the last Harry Potter book J.K. Rowling will finally address the not so secret wishes of all her gargantuan fandom hordes and try to please them all at once with sex and debauchery. ( Ooh cock, WARNING SPOILER ALERT!! )
