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bluecastle) wrote2013-03-13 10:59 am
bluecastle) wrote2013-03-13 10:59 am
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So like HI! It's been a while, huh?
Work has been crazeballs since the start of the Spring Semester in January but things are starting to calm down fractionally since the new hire started last monday. Previously I had been trying to do three people's jobs. Now I just have to do two ... and hopefully in another couple of months, they'll make good on their promise to hire a third staff member and then I can just have my own job to do. They're trying to phase me into being what I've been calling "Collections Sherpa" ... mostly collection maintenance. There's roughly a million volumes my area of the library is responsible for, and they need someone to look after them. Weed the old stuff, send the broken stuff for repairs, move volumes around... and a bazillion other things. It's exciting but also slightly terrifying to be responsible for so many items, but if I never have to do web page stuff again, I'll TAKE it!
Spent 48 hours in a hotel room in New Jersey last weekend. Which sounds like it could have been a dirty weekend, but was simply a business trip with a lot of boxed Shiraz. :) I guess I can say MY theater company now that I'm on the board ... got us a room, and we met up with the NY/NJ half of the board and talked about long term planning and short term grant proposals. Still blows my mind that I work with a professional company that works in and around NY. Mostly what keeps the company going is in-school arts in education workshops and residencies. Then we have the free street theater we do here and there with the help of grant monies (coming soon to Bayonne, Seacaucus, and ... somewhere else, Jersey City maybe? ... my notes are at home ;)) Then we also work on developing new pieces like those productions we did locally with the Venetian poetry, and the other one using pieces written by local women writers. Plans are to keep working the Venetian piece as its wonderful (and we made those 15 gowns in one weekend so we might as well use them ;) and to dust off a piece on Freedom ... as what better time than now to do a piece that opens up discussions about the nature of freedom!!
So more theater to come. Also I have to decide if I'm going to local community theater auditions tomorrow/Friday. They've moved into the Performing Arts Center this year, so fewer performances but a much bigger house. Also air-conditioning. And fewer bats. But less ambiance than a 200 year old barn. I haven't even looked very closely at what shows they're doing. But I do have to look at dates and see when I'm free before I decide on auditions.
Otherwise I'm mostly just squee-ing over the 221 B set rebuild ... and those pictures of Tom Hardy cuddling a puppy. And working my way though the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I'm in the first half of season two right now and loving it. I love world building. :)
So that's me. What's everyone else been up to?
Work has been crazeballs since the start of the Spring Semester in January but things are starting to calm down fractionally since the new hire started last monday. Previously I had been trying to do three people's jobs. Now I just have to do two ... and hopefully in another couple of months, they'll make good on their promise to hire a third staff member and then I can just have my own job to do. They're trying to phase me into being what I've been calling "Collections Sherpa" ... mostly collection maintenance. There's roughly a million volumes my area of the library is responsible for, and they need someone to look after them. Weed the old stuff, send the broken stuff for repairs, move volumes around... and a bazillion other things. It's exciting but also slightly terrifying to be responsible for so many items, but if I never have to do web page stuff again, I'll TAKE it!
Spent 48 hours in a hotel room in New Jersey last weekend. Which sounds like it could have been a dirty weekend, but was simply a business trip with a lot of boxed Shiraz. :) I guess I can say MY theater company now that I'm on the board ... got us a room, and we met up with the NY/NJ half of the board and talked about long term planning and short term grant proposals. Still blows my mind that I work with a professional company that works in and around NY. Mostly what keeps the company going is in-school arts in education workshops and residencies. Then we have the free street theater we do here and there with the help of grant monies (coming soon to Bayonne, Seacaucus, and ... somewhere else, Jersey City maybe? ... my notes are at home ;)) Then we also work on developing new pieces like those productions we did locally with the Venetian poetry, and the other one using pieces written by local women writers. Plans are to keep working the Venetian piece as its wonderful (and we made those 15 gowns in one weekend so we might as well use them ;) and to dust off a piece on Freedom ... as what better time than now to do a piece that opens up discussions about the nature of freedom!!
So more theater to come. Also I have to decide if I'm going to local community theater auditions tomorrow/Friday. They've moved into the Performing Arts Center this year, so fewer performances but a much bigger house. Also air-conditioning. And fewer bats. But less ambiance than a 200 year old barn. I haven't even looked very closely at what shows they're doing. But I do have to look at dates and see when I'm free before I decide on auditions.
Otherwise I'm mostly just squee-ing over the 221 B set rebuild ... and those pictures of Tom Hardy cuddling a puppy. And working my way though the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I'm in the first half of season two right now and loving it. I love world building. :)
So that's me. What's everyone else been up to?