Rain, Rain, Go Bugger Off.
Sep. 28th, 2010 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceitfiannaIts just 5 o'clock now and today feels so much longer. I had trouble getting to sleep last night so even though I was in bed at a decent hour, I didn't fall asleep until much later than I should have. I ended up waking up at 9 am, I have an 8:30 class that's a half hour walk away. Luckily my bag and laptop were all packed up since I know I never have the brain for it in the morning. So off I went to discover that its pouring rain, I feel like I'm still drying off even now even though the rain has stopped.
So I finally got to class an hour late to discover that most of the digital libraries that I was interested in for the wiki were taken and I missed how to set up a page. I spent some time trying to figure it out and ended up with three ones that should be interesting; the Penn Museum archives, the National Archives of the United Kingdom and I don't remember the third one. I think it was another academic one.
The prof was so nice when I apologized for being late during the break and he said, you snuck in just fine, he's one of my favorite professors in SI. Its just a pain that he teaches archives stuff and I'm really not an archivist.
Then after lunch, I had to do the manuscript prep stuff in Special Libraries, which is an interesting place, but always feels like the stereotype of a bad library. They watch over you and I always worry I'm doing things wrong. The questions to answer were easy and I wish that I hadn't felt so worn out because it was hard to appreciate the beautiful things I was looking at.
Then I spent a few hours with my laptop in Shapiro with an alright tea from the library cafe and a good peanut butter cookie. I now have a tea latte from Starbucks and I'm at the second library computer of this round. On the first one I sat down at, both the browsers kept freezing on me. I don't want to set up my laptop again since I have class in half an hour and I won't be using it then.
Please give me prompts to come home to, I feel like fear of being late, being rained on and general aches and pains has sat on my creativity. Since oh yes, my ankle has started hurting again and I love my laptop but its heavy, so my shoulder hurts. I'm open to any sort of prompt, poke me about ideas I've mentioned to you. I don't have class until 1 pm tomorrow and I want to do some writing I enjoy before I sleep.
Now I'm going to see if I have the brain to manage a tag or two before class.
So I finally got to class an hour late to discover that most of the digital libraries that I was interested in for the wiki were taken and I missed how to set up a page. I spent some time trying to figure it out and ended up with three ones that should be interesting; the Penn Museum archives, the National Archives of the United Kingdom and I don't remember the third one. I think it was another academic one.
The prof was so nice when I apologized for being late during the break and he said, you snuck in just fine, he's one of my favorite professors in SI. Its just a pain that he teaches archives stuff and I'm really not an archivist.
Then after lunch, I had to do the manuscript prep stuff in Special Libraries, which is an interesting place, but always feels like the stereotype of a bad library. They watch over you and I always worry I'm doing things wrong. The questions to answer were easy and I wish that I hadn't felt so worn out because it was hard to appreciate the beautiful things I was looking at.
Then I spent a few hours with my laptop in Shapiro with an alright tea from the library cafe and a good peanut butter cookie. I now have a tea latte from Starbucks and I'm at the second library computer of this round. On the first one I sat down at, both the browsers kept freezing on me. I don't want to set up my laptop again since I have class in half an hour and I won't be using it then.
Please give me prompts to come home to, I feel like fear of being late, being rained on and general aches and pains has sat on my creativity. Since oh yes, my ankle has started hurting again and I love my laptop but its heavy, so my shoulder hurts. I'm open to any sort of prompt, poke me about ideas I've mentioned to you. I don't have class until 1 pm tomorrow and I want to do some writing I enjoy before I sleep.
Now I'm going to see if I have the brain to manage a tag or two before class.
