For reasons that are boring to get into, I decided that I needed to leave the Library of Virginia a couple months ago and move into a new position that is not in an archival repository. I loved my time at LVA, and it saddened (and continues to sadden) me that I needed to leave, […]
Category Archives: Life
Moving Domains
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My First Week in the Real World
I have just started my second full week of work at the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary. I am the Public Services Archives Specialist, and so I’ve been (unsurprisingly) doing a lot of things that face the public, in addition to my training. My primary task, so far, has […]
Master's paper update
I’m chugging along on my master’s paper, which is due three weeks from today. I am finishing up the data collection as we speak, and I want to have a draft finished by next Monday. What I’ve found so far is that there is a decent amount of archival intelligence material on these websites; however, […]
Browser ennui
I’ve had a problem deciding what web browser I should be using. I’ve been using Firefox for a long time, but for some reason the current versions on Ubuntu like to freeze a lot, causing me to have to force quit and then start it up again. Its also kinda slow, both in opening the […]
Under construction
As you may be able to tell, my blog theme now looks very very basic. Well, for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t have a theme right now. I’m a compulsive tinkerer, and so I’ve decided that I’m not happy with any of the themes that are currently out there. So, in order to have […]
Crowdsurfing
Crowdsurfing, to me, is the most selfish thing someone can do at a concert. You are making a lot of people, who are there to enjoy the music, hold you up while you float on top of a sea of bodies. You’re ruining the experience of the people who are holding you up. If I […]
Education, the American South, and Strangers with Cameras
[Note: This post was crossposted from my Daily Kos account. Its similar to an earlier post I did, called Stranger With A Camera, but has a more political bent than the anthropological bent of the first post.] Recently, there has been a lot of talk of how the Republicans have become a southern, regional party, […]
I-40 craziness in Greensboro
I’m a transit nerd. I like learning about roads, bridges, highways, trains, neighborhoods, and all sorts of elements of history of cities. In Greensboro, there is a part of I-40 that is just ridiculous. I-40, along with I-85, used to go through downtown Greensboro, through a section that they call Death Valley. They decided to […]
Movie filming in my apartment
Over the weekend my friend Josh Clayton filmed some shots for his movie “The Virgins” in my apartment. I took some pictures of the filming process. Here’s Josh and his director of photography, Aravind, setting up for a shot in the living room. Here’s everyone in my kitchen, talking as the camera and lights are […]