Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Full house!

It's not often the WWC archives gets enough visitors to fill all 5 chairs, but we did it last night.
The History 480 senior seminar proposals are due this week, so people are getting it in gear.  Suddenly, the archives has become the place to spend your Tuesday evening.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Awash in a sea of stuff

Ever have one of those days (weeks, months) when you feel like you're a total FAIL at being an archivist?

I'm having one of those weeks.

My desk is a wreck. A complete and utter mish-mash of clutter. How did I allow it to get this bad?

It happens. The detritus of others conspires to make us liars and cheats. Of course, most of the drips and drabs are of my own making, but I can blame it on the wee bits of stuff that comes at me through campus mail and the door and by the hands of others.

Get down with it, get dirty, get small. Make piles, then smaller ones, then tiny ones. Get up, move around, filefilefile, processprocessprocess. Some of it finds its way into the round file--hate to see you go, but that's where you belong. Sorry. Not everything is permanent in this impermanent world.

And, little by little, the piles disappear and soon I find an expanse of brown once again. Ahhhh!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Back from ...whereever

After not being able to access our gmail account for ages, I think we've finally gotten it straightened out.

Back with Owl Droppings as soon as we create some. :D