Hello all! It has been about a zillion years since I posted anything but I wanted to alert you all to my new blog! Since this was mainly for my internship i've decided to get back into the blogging swing of things on a less academic level. Hope to hear from you all at my new page!
11.11.2013
10.05.2011
Cola-sick...
Hello everyone!
I know that it has been a looooong time since I've updated this blog and there has been so much happening since my long drive back to Iowa. I spent the my last week in SC showing my grandparents and sister around my favorite places in Cola and Chucktown. We ate at my favorite restaurants, shopped in the old slave market, walked on the beautiful beaches, and visited HCF to take tours and so that they could see where I had been working during my time in down south. After they left I made the long, beautiful drive back to Iowa. There is something about driving in the mountains that you just have to love and after spending my first day on the road in tree-covered, green, winding, roads the flat, straight interstates of Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa were a sure sign that I was back in the mid-west.
I wasn't back in Iowa for long though because I was off to NYC for a week of working at Windmill Studios. My brother and his two partners are working incredibly hard to get their studio in tip-top shape and I was lucky enough to be a part of it! I know that I already told you folks most of this in my previous post but the week I spent in NYC was so FANTASTIC. I worked all day with my brother and and then spent the nights just enjoying family time and the city. There is something magical about the dirty, noisy, crowded city that I absolutely love. I also got to see my friend/old roommate Shaina while I was there which was one of the highlights. Shaina has been living and dancing in Israel for the past year-ish and it was great to get to catch up.
After NYC I was planning on going to Wisconsin to help clean up after the storm but there was just no way that I'd be able to do that and be ready for recruitment so I headed back to Iowa City for my last week-ish of summer and some time with my family and friends in IC although most of my time consisted of unpacking, organizing and repacking for school/recruitment.
Recruitment went so well! I was incredibly impressed with all of my sisters and their hard work throughout the two long weeks. We basically had a new recruitment this year and despite my nerves about some things, everything came together really well! The decorations and house looked beautiful each day and pref night was by far the best i'd ever seen the house look. Lauren Emily did a fantastic job with the floral arrangements and everyone worked really hard to make things special for the night.
That brings us just about to now, I am back in school at Iowa State University of Science and Technology and the semester is in full swing.
I know that it has been a looooong time since I've updated this blog and there has been so much happening since my long drive back to Iowa. I spent the my last week in SC showing my grandparents and sister around my favorite places in Cola and Chucktown. We ate at my favorite restaurants, shopped in the old slave market, walked on the beautiful beaches, and visited HCF to take tours and so that they could see where I had been working during my time in down south. After they left I made the long, beautiful drive back to Iowa. There is something about driving in the mountains that you just have to love and after spending my first day on the road in tree-covered, green, winding, roads the flat, straight interstates of Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa were a sure sign that I was back in the mid-west.
I wasn't back in Iowa for long though because I was off to NYC for a week of working at Windmill Studios. My brother and his two partners are working incredibly hard to get their studio in tip-top shape and I was lucky enough to be a part of it! I know that I already told you folks most of this in my previous post but the week I spent in NYC was so FANTASTIC. I worked all day with my brother and and then spent the nights just enjoying family time and the city. There is something magical about the dirty, noisy, crowded city that I absolutely love. I also got to see my friend/old roommate Shaina while I was there which was one of the highlights. Shaina has been living and dancing in Israel for the past year-ish and it was great to get to catch up.
After NYC I was planning on going to Wisconsin to help clean up after the storm but there was just no way that I'd be able to do that and be ready for recruitment so I headed back to Iowa City for my last week-ish of summer and some time with my family and friends in IC although most of my time consisted of unpacking, organizing and repacking for school/recruitment.
Recruitment went so well! I was incredibly impressed with all of my sisters and their hard work throughout the two long weeks. We basically had a new recruitment this year and despite my nerves about some things, everything came together really well! The decorations and house looked beautiful each day and pref night was by far the best i'd ever seen the house look. Lauren Emily did a fantastic job with the floral arrangements and everyone worked really hard to make things special for the night.
That brings us just about to now, I am back in school at Iowa State University of Science and Technology and the semester is in full swing.
7.08.2011
It's the final countdown!
Well, that's it. It's my last day here at the wonderful Historic Columbia Foundation and I'm preparing to turn in my final draft to Dr. Sherrer. I can't believe it flew by so quickly! I...
At this point in my post John called me into his office to watch the final shuttle lift off. Coincidence that the title of my post is the final countdown huh?!
Aaaaanyway. I am both excited that it's over and sad to be leaving. I have learned so incredibly much from my time here at HCF and am extremely grateful for the opportunity to work and learn here. I will miss getting an inside look at the way museums are run and all of the times that John has called me into his office to look at something with him. It was really a better internship than I could have hoped for!
Today I am finalizing and turning in my draft proposal. It has gone from 4 to 6 signs and 4 to 14 pages over these past few weeks and I am very proud of it. Hopefully everyone at HCF likes it as much as I do! I also have been helping with some fact checking for a project John is working on. By the time I leave here today I will have created a draft proposal, taken pictures for a brochure, helped to edit a brochure, fact checked multiple signs, taken part in design meetings, never gotten a cup of coffee (other than for myself), and only made copies once. Now that's what I call an internship!
Although I am incredibly sad to be leaving Cola and HCF I am excited for the coming weeks. This weekend Wes and I are going to Boone, NC to visit a couple of friends and go hiking in the Appalachians, then when we get back my grandparents and big sister will be in town for a few days. I am so excited to show them the Cola I have come to know and the Charleston that I have come to really love. When they leave Wes and I will pack up the townhouse and head to Charlotte for a night. I wanted to get to say goodbye to them and he needs to drop off his car before we make the loooong drive back to the midwest. I'm really glad that I'll have someone to ride with me this time. It got boring all by myself for 17 hours last time! Not to mention the fact that I'm to broke to spring for another book on CD.
When we get back to IA we'll be there for about a week before heading to Minneapolis. From there Wes will fly back to Charlotte and I'll be flying to New York. I'm going to be working for free (apparently the theme of my summer!) for him for a week. I am so excited to see Martin, Ali, Roxanne, and everyone else in NYC. It's going to be a lot of work but it's also going to be a lot of fun! I am especially excited to see Windmill Studios. I have loved looking at the pictures on facebook and I can't wait to see it in real life.
After NY I'll be heading back to MN, picking up my car, and heading off to Wisconsin for a little while. There was a GINORMOUS storm a few weeks ago and although I know that it's going to be a shock to see everything so different I am excited to go and help my grandparents haul brush and clean up. From the sounds of it the woods my family has grown up in are almost unrecognizable and it just about breaks my heart to think of how much worse it could have been. I'm just glad that the cabin was spared.
From WI I'll be heading back to Iowa City to spend one last night at home and then moving back to Ames for spirit week and recruitment. The end of my crazy schedule wont stop with the end of recruitment though. While everyone in Ames is partying the last day of summer away and getting ready for classes I'll be on my way to Denver, Colorado for William's wedding. I am so excited for Will and Kristin and I can't wait to celebrate their special day with them! The day after the wedding is my first day of classes so I'll be rushing back to Ames and start school on the second day of the semester.
It's going to be a crazy few weeks but I can't wait for any of it. It's going to be wonderful!
No pictures for you this time but I'll have some from hiking and the mountains soon!
At this point in my post John called me into his office to watch the final shuttle lift off. Coincidence that the title of my post is the final countdown huh?!
Aaaaanyway. I am both excited that it's over and sad to be leaving. I have learned so incredibly much from my time here at HCF and am extremely grateful for the opportunity to work and learn here. I will miss getting an inside look at the way museums are run and all of the times that John has called me into his office to look at something with him. It was really a better internship than I could have hoped for!
Today I am finalizing and turning in my draft proposal. It has gone from 4 to 6 signs and 4 to 14 pages over these past few weeks and I am very proud of it. Hopefully everyone at HCF likes it as much as I do! I also have been helping with some fact checking for a project John is working on. By the time I leave here today I will have created a draft proposal, taken pictures for a brochure, helped to edit a brochure, fact checked multiple signs, taken part in design meetings, never gotten a cup of coffee (other than for myself), and only made copies once. Now that's what I call an internship!
Although I am incredibly sad to be leaving Cola and HCF I am excited for the coming weeks. This weekend Wes and I are going to Boone, NC to visit a couple of friends and go hiking in the Appalachians, then when we get back my grandparents and big sister will be in town for a few days. I am so excited to show them the Cola I have come to know and the Charleston that I have come to really love. When they leave Wes and I will pack up the townhouse and head to Charlotte for a night. I wanted to get to say goodbye to them and he needs to drop off his car before we make the loooong drive back to the midwest. I'm really glad that I'll have someone to ride with me this time. It got boring all by myself for 17 hours last time! Not to mention the fact that I'm to broke to spring for another book on CD.
When we get back to IA we'll be there for about a week before heading to Minneapolis. From there Wes will fly back to Charlotte and I'll be flying to New York. I'm going to be working for free (apparently the theme of my summer!) for him for a week. I am so excited to see Martin, Ali, Roxanne, and everyone else in NYC. It's going to be a lot of work but it's also going to be a lot of fun! I am especially excited to see Windmill Studios. I have loved looking at the pictures on facebook and I can't wait to see it in real life.
After NY I'll be heading back to MN, picking up my car, and heading off to Wisconsin for a little while. There was a GINORMOUS storm a few weeks ago and although I know that it's going to be a shock to see everything so different I am excited to go and help my grandparents haul brush and clean up. From the sounds of it the woods my family has grown up in are almost unrecognizable and it just about breaks my heart to think of how much worse it could have been. I'm just glad that the cabin was spared.
From WI I'll be heading back to Iowa City to spend one last night at home and then moving back to Ames for spirit week and recruitment. The end of my crazy schedule wont stop with the end of recruitment though. While everyone in Ames is partying the last day of summer away and getting ready for classes I'll be on my way to Denver, Colorado for William's wedding. I am so excited for Will and Kristin and I can't wait to celebrate their special day with them! The day after the wedding is my first day of classes so I'll be rushing back to Ames and start school on the second day of the semester.
It's going to be a crazy few weeks but I can't wait for any of it. It's going to be wonderful!
No pictures for you this time but I'll have some from hiking and the mountains soon!
6.30.2011
Cookouts, label copies, and championships!
Since that last post left something to be desired (trying to post it a zillion times made me lose my patience), Here is what I have really been doing for the past few days.
I've been busy at work making sure that my signage proposal is in perfect order to be turned in to John again at the end of the week. It's coming along really nicely and once I get everything from Jake put in it will finally be done. I'm getting really excited about seeing the final product and I've decided that as soon as the exhibit is installed I'm going to come back and see it.
Last night there was and HCF cookout at the Siebels house. It was really fun for me to meet some new people and for me to introduce Wes to the people I've been working with. I also enjoyed seeing everyone outside of work and getting to know everyone a little better. Possibly the highlight of the night was meeting Brenna though. Fielding has been trying to get me to meet her pretty much since I got here because guess what, she's from IOWA! Both she and her husband are from Iowa and met during biology class at the U of I. It was great to get to talk to them about their favorite IC hangouts and to have someone to complain about the SC heat with :)
Lets see what else....
Last weekend Wes and I made a day trip down to Charleston. First we went to the old powder magazine. It is the oldest building in Charleston and every time we've been to visit it has been closed so it was really fun to get to finally visit. The curator working there was awesome. Since we were the only ones there most of the time he took the time to show us certain aspects of the exhibit that he particularly enjoyed and to tell us stories about the building. After the powder magazine we went to one of our favorite restaurants for lunch. Amen Street is a fantastic seafood restaurant in heart of the historic district. We started with a low country favorite, She Crab Soup. Any of you that come to visit me (or just make it down to Charleston) have to have this soup. It's amazing. Then I got a flounder po boy that was the size of my head which was equally amazing. Amen Street never fails at being DElicious. Next we hit up the old slave market and some of the more touristy shops that we had never been in. I have always enjoyed the market. It's fun to see people weaving sweet grass baskets and to sample some of the treats that are being sold. My favorite are the benne seed wafers. They're the perfect combination of sweet, salty, nutty, and crunchy.
After doing some touristy shopping we headed to Folly Beach. This time we went to the far end of the beach near the lighthouse rather than down the other direction closer to the pier. It wasn't as crowded which made it much more fun. When we were finally hungry again we made our way to a place called the crab shack where there was live music and got peel and eat shrimp. This being my first time peeling my own shrimp I have to say that I'm quite good at it. I only squirted shrimp juice on Wes once :) Next we headed out for ice cream and then took a walk down the beach at night.
You would think that after a full day we would be pooped and ready to head home to sleep but instead we decided to check out Isle of Palms beach. I think we may have a new favorite beach to visit the next time we head to Chuck Town. It is exactly what I've always pictured when I've thought of a Carolina beach. From the dunes to the seashells to the amazingly soft sand. Everything about it is pretty much perfect. If Monica and G&G want to see the beach at all while they're here we're taking them there for sure. Hopefully we'll have enough time to do everything...the list is growing by the minute!
Since my computer was being so wonky with the last post here are a few pictures of some of my favorite places in Cola. and my adventures in the south.
I've been busy at work making sure that my signage proposal is in perfect order to be turned in to John again at the end of the week. It's coming along really nicely and once I get everything from Jake put in it will finally be done. I'm getting really excited about seeing the final product and I've decided that as soon as the exhibit is installed I'm going to come back and see it.
Last night there was and HCF cookout at the Siebels house. It was really fun for me to meet some new people and for me to introduce Wes to the people I've been working with. I also enjoyed seeing everyone outside of work and getting to know everyone a little better. Possibly the highlight of the night was meeting Brenna though. Fielding has been trying to get me to meet her pretty much since I got here because guess what, she's from IOWA! Both she and her husband are from Iowa and met during biology class at the U of I. It was great to get to talk to them about their favorite IC hangouts and to have someone to complain about the SC heat with :)
Lets see what else....
Last weekend Wes and I made a day trip down to Charleston. First we went to the old powder magazine. It is the oldest building in Charleston and every time we've been to visit it has been closed so it was really fun to get to finally visit. The curator working there was awesome. Since we were the only ones there most of the time he took the time to show us certain aspects of the exhibit that he particularly enjoyed and to tell us stories about the building. After the powder magazine we went to one of our favorite restaurants for lunch. Amen Street is a fantastic seafood restaurant in heart of the historic district. We started with a low country favorite, She Crab Soup. Any of you that come to visit me (or just make it down to Charleston) have to have this soup. It's amazing. Then I got a flounder po boy that was the size of my head which was equally amazing. Amen Street never fails at being DElicious. Next we hit up the old slave market and some of the more touristy shops that we had never been in. I have always enjoyed the market. It's fun to see people weaving sweet grass baskets and to sample some of the treats that are being sold. My favorite are the benne seed wafers. They're the perfect combination of sweet, salty, nutty, and crunchy.
After doing some touristy shopping we headed to Folly Beach. This time we went to the far end of the beach near the lighthouse rather than down the other direction closer to the pier. It wasn't as crowded which made it much more fun. When we were finally hungry again we made our way to a place called the crab shack where there was live music and got peel and eat shrimp. This being my first time peeling my own shrimp I have to say that I'm quite good at it. I only squirted shrimp juice on Wes once :) Next we headed out for ice cream and then took a walk down the beach at night.
You would think that after a full day we would be pooped and ready to head home to sleep but instead we decided to check out Isle of Palms beach. I think we may have a new favorite beach to visit the next time we head to Chuck Town. It is exactly what I've always pictured when I've thought of a Carolina beach. From the dunes to the seashells to the amazingly soft sand. Everything about it is pretty much perfect. If Monica and G&G want to see the beach at all while they're here we're taking them there for sure. Hopefully we'll have enough time to do everything...the list is growing by the minute!
Since my computer was being so wonky with the last post here are a few pictures of some of my favorite places in Cola. and my adventures in the south.
The people that parked next to us in charleston were from Pottawattamie county Iowa!!!
This place not only has awesome coffee but also a fantastic name!
Meet my grandmothers heaven. Chocolate Nirvanna has amazing cakes. It's a little expensive but REALLY good.
Cafe Strudel's hangover hash browns are what dreams are made of. Seriously though. Amazing food and their sake cocktails are delish!
So this isn't really all that exciting unless you're from Iowa City where parking is a nightmare. All of the parking meters are color coordinated! Blue is 5 hours, green is 2 hours and red is a half hour. SO SMART!
The South Carolina state house. Wes and I love to walk the grounds of the state house. Its especially pretty at night. Yesterday was the first time we had gone inside and I now know just how seriously these South Carolinian's take their confederate past. The writ of secession is engraved in on the wall in the entry way.
In honor of the USC gamecocks winning the college world series, the USC flag was flying atop the state house. "GO COCKS!"
So I've been trying to post this for days now...
As I'm sure you have all been wondering, I never found a job. Other than meaning that I have been doing my best to spend absolutely nothing while Wes spends more than he had bargained for, this means that I will be cutting my internship short. I now have two weeks left here at the Historic Columbia Foundation and I am very sad to see the time slipping so quickly away. I have learned so incredibly much during my time here and have gained so much from the experience that I'm realizing just how much I'm really going to need to savor my last two weeks.
This week I have been continuing to rework my signage proposal and get everything in perfect order. I have also been familiarizing myself with the USC library which at times makes me feel like I never left Parks at ISU. Something about being locked away in a cubical at a library makes me focus...maybe its because there's nothing to look at other than what I have brought to work on...or maybe its because that's what everyone else is doing (or at least trying) around me. Either way, I'm becoming very proud of the work that I have been doing. This proposal has been at times frustrating, confusing, and at times produced almost as much writers block as my term paper for 396C last semester, but it will no doubt be some of the best work I have done in college. Who knew that would happen in Columbia SC and not Iowa!
Since I am leaving Columbia earlier than planned I'm not going to get to do any real work with the Woodrow Wilson Family home. I just wont have time to split between both projects. The time I've already spent with the project (meetings, background research) was great. I learned a lot about a very influential president and an era that isn't taught a lot in school.
6.20.2011
A Prehistoric Invasion!
I have always loved writing, but blogging is not my favorite form. There is something impersonal about tapping keys and watching the letters magically appear. That's why I love doing these things the old fashioned way. Feeling the ink flow out of the pen and onto the paper somehow makes it feel more like a labor of love than a task on a to do list so here's what you've been missing for the past few days.
I've mostly just been working on my draft proposal for the Mann-Simons site, and the draft that I will be turning in to John will be the 4th draft I've written even though It will be the first time he's seeing it. John has been out of the country for two weeks on a mission trip with his church and I'm really excited to hear how the trip went. Hopefully everything went well and he'll have lots of stories to share, after he digs his way out of a zillion emails that is. The proposal is coming along really well and short of a missing date and some images that need to be reworked, it is close to being done. To get it to this point I've been working a lot with Jake. He has been really helpful in reworking things so that they flow the way they need to and making sure that the images are the best representation of the site. I'm excited for John to see the proposal and see what he thinks of my work.
Other than working I've been enjoying pretty much everything in Cola. I'm finally starting to feel like I live here. I'm finding my favorite places to get lunch, coffee, snacks, and groceries. It doesn't feel as strange to call everyone "Ma'am" or "Sir". Being called "Ma'am" is still a bit weird for me but I'm finally getting over it. I am trying to get the most of this experience and so far that has included food. So far my favorites are Cafe Strudel, Pawley's Front Porch, Palmetto Pig, Yoghut, Liberty Tap Room and Grill, and Pita's. Palmetto Pig and Pita's came courtesy of everyone at HCF and they were fabulous recommendations. I can't wait to take Monica and G&G to a few of them while they're here.
The only bad thing I can find with Cola, other than constantly being just a touch too hot (its 101 here today), are the stupid palmetto roaches. I've never really been scared of bugs. At least not to the point of shrieking and running away but I cant even get close enough to kill the suckers! Even if I did get close enough some day the stupid thing probably wouldn't die. A tour guide in Charleston said it best "They're leftovers from the prehistoric era with exoskeletons like plate armor and no matter how many times you hit them they just dont die!". They're DISGUSTING and EVERYWHERE!!! Its a good thing Dr. Hilliard told me about them before I left or I would be having a kiniption. No matter how clean you keep things, or how nice and new your apartment is they always turn up. Currently there is one that made its home in the dishwasher and the garbage disposal which has become seriously crippling for my cooking abilities. Hopefully while I'm at HCF today it'll come out of its hiding place and Wes will kill it so I don'st have to see it again. Blech. I never thought I would miss the june bug invasion at Camp Shalom every summer or the box-elder bugs that coat screens in Iowa but let me tell you...those suckers are TAME!
(This is where I was going to put a picture of one of the giant nasty things that plagues this city but as soon as I started looking for a picture I had that feeling that they were crawling on me and I couldnt do it....so just imagine it...or google it if your brave!)
I don't have any great pictures to send you off with but I promise I will next time!
I've mostly just been working on my draft proposal for the Mann-Simons site, and the draft that I will be turning in to John will be the 4th draft I've written even though It will be the first time he's seeing it. John has been out of the country for two weeks on a mission trip with his church and I'm really excited to hear how the trip went. Hopefully everything went well and he'll have lots of stories to share, after he digs his way out of a zillion emails that is. The proposal is coming along really well and short of a missing date and some images that need to be reworked, it is close to being done. To get it to this point I've been working a lot with Jake. He has been really helpful in reworking things so that they flow the way they need to and making sure that the images are the best representation of the site. I'm excited for John to see the proposal and see what he thinks of my work.
Other than working I've been enjoying pretty much everything in Cola. I'm finally starting to feel like I live here. I'm finding my favorite places to get lunch, coffee, snacks, and groceries. It doesn't feel as strange to call everyone "Ma'am" or "Sir". Being called "Ma'am" is still a bit weird for me but I'm finally getting over it. I am trying to get the most of this experience and so far that has included food. So far my favorites are Cafe Strudel, Pawley's Front Porch, Palmetto Pig, Yoghut, Liberty Tap Room and Grill, and Pita's. Palmetto Pig and Pita's came courtesy of everyone at HCF and they were fabulous recommendations. I can't wait to take Monica and G&G to a few of them while they're here.
The only bad thing I can find with Cola, other than constantly being just a touch too hot (its 101 here today), are the stupid palmetto roaches. I've never really been scared of bugs. At least not to the point of shrieking and running away but I cant even get close enough to kill the suckers! Even if I did get close enough some day the stupid thing probably wouldn't die. A tour guide in Charleston said it best "They're leftovers from the prehistoric era with exoskeletons like plate armor and no matter how many times you hit them they just dont die!". They're DISGUSTING and EVERYWHERE!!! Its a good thing Dr. Hilliard told me about them before I left or I would be having a kiniption. No matter how clean you keep things, or how nice and new your apartment is they always turn up. Currently there is one that made its home in the dishwasher and the garbage disposal which has become seriously crippling for my cooking abilities. Hopefully while I'm at HCF today it'll come out of its hiding place and Wes will kill it so I don'st have to see it again. Blech. I never thought I would miss the june bug invasion at Camp Shalom every summer or the box-elder bugs that coat screens in Iowa but let me tell you...those suckers are TAME!
(This is where I was going to put a picture of one of the giant nasty things that plagues this city but as soon as I started looking for a picture I had that feeling that they were crawling on me and I couldnt do it....so just imagine it...or google it if your brave!)
I don't have any great pictures to send you off with but I promise I will next time!
6.03.2011
Storms, Scans, and Signage
Thunderstorms have always been one of my favorite things and last night we had a doozie! The lightning was incredible and it was even easier to see once we lost power. Luckily it came back on quickly because otherwise Wes and I would have been forced to eat half a container of chocolate chip ice cream, the last of the chocolate chip cookies, and everything in the fridge. Granted that's not much but, it would have been a lot at 10:30 at night! The storm was worse in other areas of Cola and John even said he had some trees down. By the time we were going to bed everything had settled down considerably and by this morning blue skies were out again. It is supposed to be another rainy thunderstorm filled day but so far all I've seen is sunshine so maybe we'll be enjoying another night in the dark tonight.
Friday has finally (I tried really hard to make yesterday be Friday. Imagine my confusion this morning!) come and I'm busy as ever. I have been scanning the book John and Jake got from the housing authority since yesterday and am currently about halfway through. I should be able to get it done today and then burn everything to a disk for safe keeping. After I get everything scanned I am going to be photoshopping each page to make sure the levels are correct and everything is crystal clear.
This coming week I will be creating a draft of all of the signage for MS for submission to Fielding and Jake. They will be reviewing my work before I submit it to John since he will be out of the country for the next two weeks. He is going to South America on a mission trip with his church. It sounds like it's going to be a pretty amazing trip provided he comes back relatively bug bite free. Once he gets back and caught up on all of the zillions of email's he'll be getting I'll submit my MS signage to him and turn my focus to the Woodrow Wilson Family Home (WWFH or WW from now on). I will be making 4-5 signs for this property and as of right now I am almost clueless as to what they will be about. Reinterpretation on at the WWFH is still in the very beginning stages so I am looking forward to what signage I will be working on.
After a couple of weeks of working at WW I will be getting some hands on curatorial work with Fielding and some archaeological work with Jake. I am really excited to get my feet wet in these aspects of museum work. I'll be so much more sure that this is really where I should be focusing my time, energy, and trust fund when I'm done with this internship.
On a less business-y note, Monica, G&G will be getting here in five weeks and two days and I can't wait! I'm really excited to show them Charleston and where I have been working her at HCF.
I don't have any exciting pictures for you this time...but here is were I work?
Friday has finally (I tried really hard to make yesterday be Friday. Imagine my confusion this morning!) come and I'm busy as ever. I have been scanning the book John and Jake got from the housing authority since yesterday and am currently about halfway through. I should be able to get it done today and then burn everything to a disk for safe keeping. After I get everything scanned I am going to be photoshopping each page to make sure the levels are correct and everything is crystal clear.
This coming week I will be creating a draft of all of the signage for MS for submission to Fielding and Jake. They will be reviewing my work before I submit it to John since he will be out of the country for the next two weeks. He is going to South America on a mission trip with his church. It sounds like it's going to be a pretty amazing trip provided he comes back relatively bug bite free. Once he gets back and caught up on all of the zillions of email's he'll be getting I'll submit my MS signage to him and turn my focus to the Woodrow Wilson Family Home (WWFH or WW from now on). I will be making 4-5 signs for this property and as of right now I am almost clueless as to what they will be about. Reinterpretation on at the WWFH is still in the very beginning stages so I am looking forward to what signage I will be working on.
After a couple of weeks of working at WW I will be getting some hands on curatorial work with Fielding and some archaeological work with Jake. I am really excited to get my feet wet in these aspects of museum work. I'll be so much more sure that this is really where I should be focusing my time, energy, and trust fund when I'm done with this internship.
On a less business-y note, Monica, G&G will be getting here in five weeks and two days and I can't wait! I'm really excited to show them Charleston and where I have been working her at HCF.
I don't have any exciting pictures for you this time...but here is were I work?
Scanning central
My desk
It's pretty empty
The view over my left shoulder while I work
The view to my right
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