Doing Stuff
Boyfriend and I turned off the tv and brainstormed writing ideas last night. It was great until my PMS-RAGE reared its ugly head. Look, goddamnit, that cat should know by now not to bite mommy. Woo, I spanked his little bottom and while he fled the room, I know Boyfriend was thinking he ought to do the same. Heh, fear the estrogen.
We get paid our peanuts today, thank gawd. Bills and stuff. This weekend we will do dinner in Delaware with another couple. Next weekend should be dinner in Jersey with a preggo couple. I'll have off for MLK Day and the inauguration. The following weekend is the Guide Program Seminar at the Philly Museum of Art. Dear zombie jebus I want to get into their docent training so freaking badly.
I've got to get better glasses and new work pants. Plus my current work pants and winter coat need serious mending. And then there's the whole apply for grad school thing. So all in all, it's looking like a full January!
I had fun at the Archives last night. I was asked to identify the students in the picture posted below. That's the graduating class of Drexel architects for 1900. Of course there were no year books on file for 1898 through to 1911. I was able to get the names of architect students from the 1899-1900 Register, but the list of names exceeds the number of students pictured. Then I got the names off of the 1900 Commencement program, but there were fewer names there then students pictured!
My next step would have been to look up the Architect Club, but I was asked to move on to something else. Slightly frustrating b/c I'm not sure how to differentiate between my natural need to know vs. the correct professional response to a query. How much time do you devote to unraveling one mysterious photo compared to the other work waiting to be done in the archives?
Anywho, 2 of the students pictured are noted African American architect William Sidney Pittman and Pauline Conway, the first female graduate in architecture.
