Wednesday, February 15, 2012
I'm leaving the Cloister
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The sooner Clara blogs, the sooner we can start Emma
Hello Clara's readers,
- Exercised! (Clara went running, I went to kung fu)
- Watched Project Runway All-Stars
- Ate lunch
- Walked to Broadway
- I bought a pair of pants.
- I bought a book at Half Price Books (Notes from the Underground, for my book group)
- Went to Elliot Bay Books where Clara bought herself a calendar, now she'll be so organized!
- Bought the new Gotye CD. If you don't know who that is, listen to this, you'll be obsessed in no time.
- Stood in a long line at Molly Moon's, both got strawberry ice cream in a waffle cone: best decision all day.
- Went into the all-purpose store on 15th Ave. where Clara bought some hooks for her bedroom (this was the fourth store she'd looked in this afternoon)
- Clara took a nap, I did some lesson planning for next week.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Things I Vacuumed Today
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Clara's Nightmare
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Black Bart / White Apartment
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Vacuum vs. Choirgirl
Friday, December 2, 2011
My own office!
One of the perks of my new job is that I get an office to myself. The staff at MOHAI has expanded over the years and there are a lot of people crammed into places intended for just one or two. In fact, I think that other than me the only people who have their own offices are the director, the deputy director, the head of advancement, and the head librarian (and her walls are glass so it barely counts). Anyone else at my level in another department can only dream of space to themselves.
Clearly though, part of the reason I have my own office is that no one else is eager to steal the space. It is a little cinder-block corner with poor lighting and a shared wall with the freight elevator. There are a bunch of pipes running along the ceiling and once my predecessor got rained on when one of them burst.
As fate would have it, I was exiled from this private paradise for the first two months on the job. On my first day my boss tried to get me set up on the computer in there and when she went to check the internet connection, the cable thingy just fell apart in her hand. What followed was a tech support comedy of errors and I basically just ended up working on a different computer in a different area. It happened to be the same desk and computer that I had worked at two years ago, so it felt like I had just returned to my old life. I actually didn’t mind it too much, but the two heads of my department lobbied hard to get me back in my office. It was very kind of them, but I sometimes wonder if my innate chattyness was making them weary of sharing a space with me.
Whatever the motive, I did finally get a new computer, and last Wednesday I moved into the office. Grim as that space is, I am pretty excited to have it. I’ve brought in my books and notebooks from grad school, and done my best to arrange the army of lamps that my predecessor left behind. The internet still doesn’t really work in there, but at least I can start putting up my pictures of John Doyle Bishop.