Grass and Sky

Bullet notes:

*I got all the physical manipulation of archival stuff done today, yay! Still have to put the finding aid together, but that will be all computer work. Much easier, in some ways, although my arm isn't liking computer work much better than lifting/moving folders and boxes.

*Good news on the Dad front. He didn't have a heart attack, just food poisoning. He's got other stuff going on as well, probably a bad reaction to some of his meds, so he's not out of the hospital yet, but he doesn't need a pace maker.

Another weekend over, another work week about to begin. After barely dipping my toe in the water the past five or six months (at least), I'm going to do some archiving this week. Time to wrap this project up and be done with it. I've also got parent conferences to line up and prepare for, so it will be a busy month.

I managed to stay awake all afternoon only by dint of drinking a lot of diet soda. Now, having drunk a lot of diet soda, I'll probably be wide awake all night. Nothing new there.

Hockey update:

*The Penguins won their game yesterday, leaving them up 3-2 in the series. They go back to Montreal tomorrow, where they could end the series if they could muster up the energy for back-to-back wins, something they haven't managed yet in this series.

*The San Jose Sharks eliminated the mighty Detroit Red Wings in five games. This is the first time in, I believe, four years that the Red Wings won't be in the Western Conference Finals. This makes me happy.

*The Vancouver Canucks just pulled off a win against the Chicago Blackhawks. Another reason to be happy. Vancouver and Phoenix were the two Western Conference teams that I was pulling for from the start of the playoffs. Phoenix got taken out by Detroit, but Vancouver made it through the first round, only to self-destruct when faced with Chicago in round two. Tonight was clearly a good game, however, and they beat Chicago 4-1. Chicago leads that series 3-2, so Vancouver needs another two straight wins to move on to the Conference finals. It's not likely, but it has been done before (most recently by Montreal in round one this year against the Capitals) but they've put up a fight, so good for them.

What I want to be writing:

Negotiating with the Dead: An SGA Independent Atlantis fic dealing with secession and the power of archives - an AU that takes place after the end of season three. The idea came to me yesterday and I really, really want to at least attempt to write it. I think it could be a cool story if I could find the right approach for it.

What I'm supposed to be writing:

An oh-so-exciting paper on some aspect of the archival reference function being transformed or challenged by new technologies. And, to make it more fun, this paper is suppposed to be written in a particular style - I'm to pretend I'm writing it as a journal article or short presentation to other professionals in the field.

What I am writing:

Lj posts. Well, to be fair, I've got two-thirds of a page of the paper done (it's a 5-10 page paper). And it's not due until 9 am tomorrow morning, so I've got hours to go, but unfortunately I do have to go to work in a couple of hours.

Maybe what I'll write about is how archival reference functions would be transformed if archivists were able to use the ATA gene to access deeper layers of data in their systems. Yeah, cuz that would go over very well indeed, I'm sure.

Yeah, this is one of those days when I really hate being in grad school and kinda wish I could just go back to being an underemployed child care teacher.

*headdesk*