And Now .... It's the Beginning of November!

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Almost 3 months have zipped along since I last sat down to write a post.

I'd like to say that I've been too busy -- staggeringly busy -- to sit down and write a proper post, but that wouldn't be the whole truth of it. I really have been busy, but it's been easier to post short little blurbs on Facebook than to sit still for the length of time needed to write a proper entry.

Since Mid-August, the following things have happened (in no particular order):

• My late sister's eldest daughter is having her first child. Spike is due at the beginning of February with a Wee Grand-Nephew. Spike knows that she's getting the family bassinette (which her grandmother, mother, aunts, one uncle, her and all her sisters slept in when they were just Wee Ones). She doesn't know that I also have Big Sis' baby blanket and I'll be sending it up for the baby shower.


• Al, my FSU niece, is expecting her first child toward the end of March. My second Wee Grand-Nephew. Too bad her mother, Just Younger Sis, is being such a bitch about Al's pregnancy and the Wee One-To-Be.


• I have spent the past few months creating baby things for both Wee Grands-To-Be, and animemojo and I have been hitting the local consignment shop getting Wee clothes for the Wee Ones.


• We changed out the Native American exhibition and installed a new contemporary photographic exhibition about food.


• I managed my first Change-Out in my new position fairly well. There was less overtime than the previous Change-Out and no weekends worked.


• I've changed the Atrium gallery exhibitions 3 times in as many months, and supervised the painting of the gallery walls.


• I've had a meeting with the Italian liaison -- in my role as Assistant to the Director of Art and Art Education -- for the the Italian exhibition that we're getting in March 2011. (And we're supposed to be meeting again this week.)


• I've had The Best Interns possible for my first attempt at choosing minions. They're so good, in fact, that I've asked them to stay on for another semester to help out with the Italian exhibition.


• The Italian exhibition consists of 50 Baroque masterpieces that haven't seen the light of day for the better part of 400 years .... though the signature piece for the collection was mentioned in my book on still lifes.


• I've learned more about still lifes, the history of American farming, the history of sugar, contemporary issues with food production/food processing/dietary issues in these past few months while researching materials for the educational packet for the new food exhibition.


• With the help of my amazing interns, I've been able to create an education packet and two gallery handouts for the current exhibition.


• I celebrated my 17th anniversary with animemojo , though we had to postpone our anniversary trip to St. Augustine until the following weekend.


• The original date for the food exhibition was shortened. Now, we've extended the exhibition back to the original date and have more paperwork to do because of the extension.


• I caught some nasty stomach flu/gastrointestinal virus this past week and had to use my first sick days as a manager. I was so sick, that even the photographs of food on the gallery walls made my stomach roil.


• I can't believe all the things I've accomplished in my first 3 months in management. There are days when I think I've got my feet squarely on the ground. Then, there are those days where I'm either trying not to get smacked with the learning curve or I'm trying to restrain the Little Postal Worker within me from running amok.


And since the clock is showing almost 3am Daylight Savings, I really need to wrap this up and get to bed. Between being sick from this stomach flu and the Daylight Savings change, my sleep schedule is royally screwed up.

Maybe I'll be able to write another entry soon. Maybe it'll be another 3 months before I can get my act and thoughts together.