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As I mentioned, I stopped at Bryn Mawr on my way over to Villanova. For those of you who I "met" after I graduated in 2005, Bryn Mawr was my undergraduate school. It's an all-women's private college in the suburbs of Philadelphia, with gorgeous castle-y buildings (with a couple unfortunate exceptions built in the 1960s/70s...). I loved my four ( Read more... )

I wrote a fic for picfor1000, which possibly only one person in the world will read because 1) it is for a non-existent fandom and 2) it has original characters. But I could not get the mice out of my head and so now there is Tale of Despereaux fic: at [ livejournal] or the [AO3]. I like it, but I don't think it's my best work. I think it really wanted to ( Read more... )

Working full-time with three to four hours of commuting each day makes for boring updates, but I'm still alive over here. I have approximately three hours to myself when I get home, in which to eat dinner, browse LJ and/or watch a TV show, and read homework for my interview next month (my point of contact offered to send me some of their internal ( Read more... )

Mostly, I find the stuff in my archive to be rather boring. I can see how it might possibly be exciting, if one is a Byzantinist, or if one had at least been to these sites and therefore had context/memories. But I am not a Byzantinist, so most days are rather dull. Sometimes, though, I find something cool.

( Empress Zoe )

( my shiny new computer! )

Over the past week and a half, I have cried, cursed, and lost sleep over a tutorial I made as a final project for one of my classes. Windows Movie Maker is made of so. much. fail. I already knew this, but had no other options readily accessible. Happily, CamStudio and Audacity are friendlier programs, but I had to hook up the audio and visual ( Read more... )

Today at work, I continued processing the Thomas Whittemore (1871-1950) collection we were working on last Friday. Points of interest:

( a life in letters )

You know your search terms are way too vague when Google suggests an online edition of Finnegans Wake as a first-page result.

(Unless, of course, you were actually looking for Finnegans Wake, in which case-why?)

My boss declared today to be a Pizza Day, so all we part-timers and interns got pizza for lunch. Best boss ever! :D ( Read more... )