So barely a week after I turned in my last assignment as a grad student, I was offered a job at the Independence Seaport Museum library (where I've been an intern for the past year). It's very exciting and I was not expecting it at all! I'll be working 4 days a week for six months, with the possibility of getting a grant-funded position at the museum after that.

OMG! "Same Girl" remix featuring T-Pain!
http://www.zshare.net/audio/27653778ca26ff

I started my internship in the library/archives of the Independence Seaport Museum yesterday. I'm very excited about it! I spent the whole day yesterday going through oversized photographs and noting information about them and any condition problems. Most of them were photos of ships, but some were photos of lots of stodgy-looking men at banquets (in one picture, no less than 50% of the men had handlebar mustaches!). I then took the information I wrote down and put it into a spreadsheet! On Friday, I'm going to look at even bigger photos (possibly as large as 3'x4')

I'm going to be at my internship every Thursday and Friday for the next 3 to 6 months. In that time, I should be able to get a lot of experience doing all kinds of different things. I might even get to create an online exhibition! I love history!

I got the internship at the Independence Seaport Museum!

I have an interview tomorrow for an (unpaid) internship at the Independence Seaport Museum's archives!

I can't remember if I ever posted about this, but when I was in Scotland this summer, many public restrooms had condom dispensors that featured ( Scotch Whiskey flavored condoms )

Things have been going pretty well for me lately. Fall always makes me feel upbeat. I started work last week - I'll be working 2 days a week for a while, with some extra days here and there. I'm essentially my boss's personal assistant - I get to do a lot of filing, which turns out to be more fun than it sounds. It's nice to not feel like a jobless slacker or a sponger. I did miss the meowers while I was at work - I was very glad to see Myrtle when I got home!

Classes have been going well. I'm really getting into doing searches on Dialog. I like the idea of having to know "secret" codes to search for documents! It makes me feel like a professional.

I also joined the ALA (American Library Association). One of my classes is about the professional and social aspects of librarianship and we've been talking a lot about professional organizations. I decided it would behoove me to join a professional organization, so I did. I'm really looking forward to going to the ALA national conference in June. It's in Washington DC this year, so I'm definitely going!

In social news, I have several friend crushes in the library science program. I'm currently plotting ways to get them to come to potlucks. I suspect that at least one of them lives in West Philly, which is exciting.

I also hope that Get Busier will actually happen. I really, really like living with lots of people. I'd probably get very lonely if I ever lived by myself. Living with eight people is good, but living with fourteen to sixteen people would be even better. My only wish is that we had either a bigger kitchen or I had my own kitchen. Using knives in a crowd is just a bad idea.

I have a job!

I passed out getting a PPD today.


I'm the worst patient.

I've been in grad school for 1.5 weeks now. So far, I really like it. I'm taking a class on searching databases, a class on library ethics, and ACTION RESEARCH (which is essentially statistics). There aren't many people in the library science program, so it's mostly the same people in all of my classes and so far I like most of them a lot.

Funny, incidental story about one of my classmates: So, Mary, remember how before we knew Amanda, we called her "The Vocalist"? Well, there's this girl in my class whose name I can never remember, but she keeps talking about how she's a musician, so I've been calling her "The Musician". I found out recently that her name is Amanda.

I've also been watching a lot of The Price is Right. Eric and I watch it almost every day. I consider it preparing me for being an old lady. I've always been rather envious of old ladies. They can be as eccentric and crabby as they want and no one holds it against them because they're old.

Speaking of old people, something very interesting happened while Karen, Eric, and I were watching NJN the other day. This show about retirees in Florida was on, and there were these four old men dressed as policemen doing a little old man dance in front of a bunch of people in a senior center. All of a sudden THEY RIPPED OFF THEIR SHIRTS! Before I knew it, there were four old dancing men WEARING GOLD THONGS!! We all started screaming and Jonny and Zach came downstairs because they thought someone was dying. It was pretty funny and awful.

Also, Karen has gotten me into stained glass lately. It's quite enjoyable and we've set up a very respectable stained glass studio in the basement. I think my next project will be stained glass grapes to hang in the kitchen.

This weekend, I'll be going up to Trexlertown with a bunch of other Get Busyans for the bike fleamarket. I hear that next weekend is homecoming. Perhaps I'll have to make arrangements to attend.

I'm gonna need to see the timely notification about that gunman at Moravian that I heard about on the news!

so, I called a lot of people tonight. Needless, to say, I am drunk. If my messages were unclear, the intended message was:
I SANG KARAOKE TO LOUIE LOUIE ON BUCKINGHAM TONIGHT!

P.S. Enrique and I will be in Bethlehem this week. Keep your eyes peeled.





Surprisingly coherent for a drunkard, eh?

this week has easily been the best week of my summer

It all started Friday night with the party at Alyssa's house, then Saturday with Get Busy's first kegger. The party was great - I met lots of interesting new people and got to see some wonderful friends whom I've missed a great deal!

Sunday I was hungover/crabby, but that didn't stop me from having a good time hanging out with housematies and speculating about tattoo designs. I'm seriously considering getting a gnome/snickers bar back tattoo.

Monday was another fabulous potluck. Mary, Eric, and I walked to Supreme(o) and then I spent the next 6 hours in the kitchen (neither barefoot nor pregnant) making samosas for the potluck. I was very happy because Jen Gillard came to the potluck! I hadn't seen her all summer and she's leaving for Senegal soon!

Tuesday I didn't do much of anything. I watched Eric play banjo-kazooie, made some corn chowder, then did my co-op shift. It was very tiring, but then I got to sit around and watch Oprah, which I haven't done in months! I also played with Hrothgar quite a bit. At one point he licked my lips; I think he was trying to makeout with me. He's clearly in love with me.

Today I started prepping the bathroom for paint (we're painting it with green and cream stripes). I can't find any clean roller heads, so I think I'll go shoe shopping with Mary in lieu of priming the walls.

Get Busy's newest member, Hroðgar

A rare occurance is going on at the Stevenson house - our internet is working! I haven't been able to get online since Monday, but that's okay because I've been pretty busy getting the rest of my life in order.

Yesterday I had an interview with Clean Water Action and today I'm going on my second interview. I'm pretty sure they'll hire me and I'm really excited - I've always been concerned about the environment, and I feel like now I need to get more involved in working to get other people to care about the environment too. The job I'd be doing with CWA is canvassing, which involves going to the suburbs and going door to door, educating people about current environmental issues. The hours are great too - 1:30PM to 10:00PM!

I'm still planning on applying to the Drexel Library of Sciences program, but I haven't decided if I really want to be back in school in the fall - I think I need a break for a while. Regardless, I think I'm only going to apply to the traditional program (screw the online program).

In other news, my family is going on vacation to Scotland from this Saturday to the following Sunday. It's going to be a tourbus tour, which means lots of touristy old people. I don't think I'll mind it too much though, since it will be nice to have the whole trip planned out and pre-paid for. I predict it will be much less stressful than backpacking around Europe!

Finally, I've been spending much of my time going through all the boxes of stuff I brought back from Moravian. I must admit, I'm still a bit peeved that my housemates left so much of their stuff for me to clean up at the house, but I did acquire quite a few new kitchen supplies because of it. I've been trying to sort out and re-pack things for moving to Get Busy.

I'm really excited about moving to Get Busy - I can't wait to live in a big house full of my friends where there's (hopefully) no drama! I plan on moving in right after I get back from vacation, sometime around June 5th.

Karen, I have a bunch of kitchen and crafting supplies that I can bring with me. Let me know if there's anything you would like for the kitchen - I may have it!

Luke/Andrew - I have kitchen stuff for 263 too. Let me know if you still want to borrow dishes/pots/pans/etc and I'll make sure you get them.

my honors defense is today at 2.

yikes!

so guess what...


HONORS IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


well, except for the exam, but that should be fine, since Dr. Glew and Dr. Tyler are on my panel and they both LOVE ME!

Tonight made me very emotional/happpppyyyyyy!!!!