Went back up to DC last week. The major problem about going up and back in the middle of the week is that I'm drained and totally out of it. I'm trying to try new restaurants but I just gave up exploring and ate at the same restaurants I was some what familiar with.
I think I'm more excited about going to DC to escape that realizing that I'm back in school. I really need to bunker down and do homework so I don't fall behind. It's already the third week of school and I still feel like I'm on break. Don't tell my professor that I haven't ordered an assigned book either.
Archivist positions are looking a little bleak in Virginia right now. I haven't decided if I should just wait until school's over or just go application happy and apply to all over the country for archivist and librarian positions. I'm just antsy to find a full-time position and to really establish my career.
I will be heading up to DC on Thursday. Shadowbrok3r out.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Candy in the City: DC edition
So I just got back from a week, well, almost a week in D.C. It was a chance to have a mini vacation while expanding my archivist education. I had a pretty well-planned schedule before I got up there.
Day One- Tuesday- Start my internship
Day Two- Wednesday- Day One of IS&T Archiving Conference
Day Three- Thursday- Day Two of IS&T Archiving Conference
Day Four- Friday- Day Three of IS&T Archiving Conference and Local Natives concert at the 9:30 Club- in reality it was Ditch Day spent sleeping in and wandering around DC and going to the concert alone with a free ticket that I won from WNRN.
Day Five- Saturday- Day Two of my internship.
Internship:
So I am an intern again! I was selected from a group of applicants to help research associates create indexes from records at the National Archives under the title of Citizen Archivist Project. We're mainly working on creating lists of those who have filed pension claims to the Committee of Revolutionary Claims. We're on the 20th Congress at this moment. For the social media aspect we have a Facebook page:
a Twitter account:
as well as a blog:
So I will be trekking up to DC once a week for two days, letting both of my jobs miss me during my absence, also whoring myself out for a bed at various friend's apartments.
Conference
I attended IS&T Archiving Conference at the National Archives. As someone interested in Digital Archiving I decided to give this conference a try. Turns out it was a little too soon in my career to attended this conference. I kind of wish I waited until this week to attend the Computers in Libraries Conference, which I am checking in on on Twitter.
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