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Feb. 13th, 2010 10:33 amThis entry was what I wanted to write yesterday about my wonderful day spent at the Benson Ford Research Center and talking about my resume and the joy that is the Olympics. Sadly programming homework ate up far more time than I wanted and I ended up going to bed with a slight headache. I feel better but not fully awake so I'm going to just try to cover all my ideas.
SI has this really good careers center and I recently went in to have them help me revamp my resume, it was so nice to find out that mainly what I need to fix is formatting on my resume. Also that for a public library internship, I just need to email people and ask around. A wonderful thing is that the Michigan summer is really long so I can do my internship early in the Summer and then go see people and do things. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get to DragonCon, because its closer to the start of classes but I want to.
Next enjoyable thing was I'm in this introduction to archives class, which is fantastic, the prof has been involved with archives for a long time and he's one of those people who can look at his profession and ask why do we do this? Well as part of this class we had a field trip to a local archive, the Benson Ford Research Center which is part of the Henry Ford museum, which looks like Independence Hall. For those of you who don't know a lot about Henry Ford and I count myself one of them, Ford was a major collector of Americana and also about inventors. We were able to walk through this huge archive of stuff, there were models of Edison's patents, which made Sameth in my head want to look closer at them. Overall it was really a wonderful trip and on the way up, I sat next to and talked to a guy that I think is cute.
Also on the way back, I finished a fantastic book that I want to recommend to my flist. Its called Fudoki by Kij Johnson and the basic premise of it is that a princess in Japan's court is filling up the last notebooks of her life. So you have her story, but she's also writing about a cat who's house burned down and who took to the road and somewhere along the way was changed to a woman. By the way, that's not really a spoiler since the cover of the book tells you, its more about what that change makes her think about. Its a beautiful book about what does it mean to be free and to be human and I highly recommend it. Apparently she's also written another book called The Fox Woman which I want to find, the grad library is so supposed to have it so maybe I'll grab it after my shift ends.
The Olympic Opening Ceremony last night was so beautiful, I've always loved the Winter Olympics and I loved how the First Nations were such an integral part of everything. I think I want the soundtrack or at least a few of the things that were played during it. Winter Olympics always make me think of my grandmother, because she was visiting us when the Albertville games were on and I recall sitting next to her and just watching things. She died while I was in high school, but a lot of Demeter was inspired by her, she lived in Northern California, Carmel and had this wonderful garden and just knew who she was.
Basically life is pretty good at the moment, I just found out that the woman who works with me for this shift has an extra bookcase so more space for my books. Oh and I'm looking forward to watching Percy Jackson, it sounds like a good romp of a movie.
SI has this really good careers center and I recently went in to have them help me revamp my resume, it was so nice to find out that mainly what I need to fix is formatting on my resume. Also that for a public library internship, I just need to email people and ask around. A wonderful thing is that the Michigan summer is really long so I can do my internship early in the Summer and then go see people and do things. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get to DragonCon, because its closer to the start of classes but I want to.
Next enjoyable thing was I'm in this introduction to archives class, which is fantastic, the prof has been involved with archives for a long time and he's one of those people who can look at his profession and ask why do we do this? Well as part of this class we had a field trip to a local archive, the Benson Ford Research Center which is part of the Henry Ford museum, which looks like Independence Hall. For those of you who don't know a lot about Henry Ford and I count myself one of them, Ford was a major collector of Americana and also about inventors. We were able to walk through this huge archive of stuff, there were models of Edison's patents, which made Sameth in my head want to look closer at them. Overall it was really a wonderful trip and on the way up, I sat next to and talked to a guy that I think is cute.
Also on the way back, I finished a fantastic book that I want to recommend to my flist. Its called Fudoki by Kij Johnson and the basic premise of it is that a princess in Japan's court is filling up the last notebooks of her life. So you have her story, but she's also writing about a cat who's house burned down and who took to the road and somewhere along the way was changed to a woman. By the way, that's not really a spoiler since the cover of the book tells you, its more about what that change makes her think about. Its a beautiful book about what does it mean to be free and to be human and I highly recommend it. Apparently she's also written another book called The Fox Woman which I want to find, the grad library is so supposed to have it so maybe I'll grab it after my shift ends.
The Olympic Opening Ceremony last night was so beautiful, I've always loved the Winter Olympics and I loved how the First Nations were such an integral part of everything. I think I want the soundtrack or at least a few of the things that were played during it. Winter Olympics always make me think of my grandmother, because she was visiting us when the Albertville games were on and I recall sitting next to her and just watching things. She died while I was in high school, but a lot of Demeter was inspired by her, she lived in Northern California, Carmel and had this wonderful garden and just knew who she was.
Basically life is pretty good at the moment, I just found out that the woman who works with me for this shift has an extra bookcase so more space for my books. Oh and I'm looking forward to watching Percy Jackson, it sounds like a good romp of a movie.
