Ugh, it’s really been two months?
Really?
I didn’t mean for it to be so long. So, let see if I can do an Inigo Montoya summation. I was sick. I got better. Finished the school semester,sent my laptop back to Acer to be fixed, got voluntarily sterilized 2 days before Christmas (TMI?) and a week before losing insurance, got my laptop back with a new motherboard and hard drive only to have it inoperable in less than 24 hours, reshipped back to Acer, started my last semester and my internship.
I’m sooo certain I missed stuff, but hey. So now, to bullet point expansion.
– I was sick. I just couldn’t shake whatever illness I have. I’d feel better for a few days, and then get hit with it again. Seemed to be over it once the semester ended. Coincidence?
–semester. My computer had started to act wiggy in November. At first it would go into a near endless cycle on bootup. I got around this, of course, by never shutting it down. I needed it to last out the semester. Then, towards the end it started randomly shutting down (and then the near-endless cycle). Made working on my finals VERY interesting. Once I finished, I I backed up my important files, and performed a system restore. Only, it didn’t make it through the restore, so now it was a useless laptop. After a week of dealing with Acer’s crappy customer service, FINALLY got them to send me an RMA number. Sent it off.
–snip snip … L and I have talked about this since Drew was born. I made an appointment in Nov. Decided that since we’ll have to pay the deductible anyway, it made more sense to wait and have it done in Jan. Then L’s company announced the insurance hike, and seeing as how we were *BARELY* making it then, there was *no* way we would be able to afford paying more for insurance. So we rushed and got it done the 23rd.
–laptop returned… , waited almost three weeks, got it back. Seemed to be working okay. I reinstall some of essentials, Chrome, firefox, etc… I noticed that on some youtube videos my laptop would lock up. Assuming that maybe I didn’t have current codecs and the like, I decided not to be concerned with it. The very next morning, I couldn’t get the system to to even complete the boot up process before locking up. So I performed a system restore, and oh lookie, it locked up during the restore, now I can’t get anything. Sent back to Acer, now waiting for it to be repaired and returned.
Oh, and to top it all off, somehow in the backup stage, my documents did not get backed up. So I lose all my documents, school papers, stories, story notes and ideas, etc.
I eventually found an older copy of my doc folder, so I didn’t lose everything, but I did lose at least a year’s worth of writing, including one short story and several pages of story notes 
–last Semester. So this is it. Hardly feels like it’s been two years, but it has been. I despised doing the summer classes, but right now, I’m glad that I did. I have two classes left– well, one class and one internship.
The internship is really cool, and one I sort of lucked into. As I want to get into Digital Librarianship, particularly scanning and working with old photographs. I spent much of the fall emailing the several colleges and institutions in the area that I thought might have something for me. The first being cornell, because I figured of everyone in the area, if a job were to open it would be with them. I got an email back from them saying that they weren’t taking interns this spring. I also emailed Ithaca College, and got a similar response, but they provided me with a few more leads. One of those was the History Center. I got an email back several weeks later saying he was going to forward my request to the archivist. A few more weeks later, I emailed the archivist directly. She wrote me back, saying that they are just starting a digitization program, and she would love to have me come in.
The internship consists of me scanning selected glass plate negatives from their Verne Morton collection. If you haven’t seen glass plate negatives before, they’re just as you would expect. These are 5 X 7 thin plate glass negatives, that have to be carefully taken out of their envelopes, placed in the flatbed scanner, scanned, and removed. It’s not really that hard… but there is little room for mistakes– can’t replace them. NO pressure. Really. LOL
They chose 75 images, and in the first week I’ve scanned over 40 of them. Scanning is just the first part, of course. Then I have to get them entered into ContentDM with appropriate metadata. The website they’ll be live on is toolsofhistory.org
Okay, that’s all from me. I’ll be back soon.
It’s time for the Secret Government to change their project, the elephants didn’t work out as well as they had hoped
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Emily/Randomability // Jan 26, 2010 at 9:38 am
You really need a Follow comments via email widget thingy here.
Anyway, Secret Government Emily Project? hee hee..
2 dtkelly // Jan 26, 2010 at 3:09 pm
I do?
If you would like the Secret Government to perform a test project on Emily, you need to submit a formal request in writing.
3 Emily/Randomability // Jan 28, 2010 at 4:23 pm
grrrrrrr….
4 Emily/Randomability // Jan 28, 2010 at 4:24 pm
see… I didn’t see this until nearly a day later because I can’t subscribe or whatever to comments.
5 Jessi // Feb 10, 2010 at 3:16 am
Ugh, so sorry to hear that you lost so much from the computer. I’ve been there and lost way more than I’d like to admit due to poor backups before.
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