Administrative Generalist 3!
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: Sound of Meghan jumping up and down on the wooden floor
Topic: Life and What-not
Meghan got the job!!! :-D

WOOHOO!!!!


I knew she could do it -- she's the best!!! :-D

Losing History, or, Nineveh Berry on a Pedestal
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Snap! "I've Got the Power" (Bhangra remix)
Topic: Life and What-not
This whole life change is starting to get pretty real, even if there isn't a *whole* lot more clarity. What's left of this week and then next week and we'll be done with our work at Taylor, so that adds a lot of reality itself. Plus Meghan had a phone interview for a job at UAF this afternoon and she thought it went well, and she should hear about it this week hopefully. I was looking at the graduate classes for registration the past couple of days, too, and saw a few that would be really cool (Anthropology of Religion, Human Osteology, and Sustainability), but there are some scheduling conflicts and I'm not sure yet how detailed a plan Dr. Smith has for me. She gets back from the field in August, so I'll be able to iron it out then. Nevertheless, looking at the classes made the whole going back to school thing pretty real.

(Incidentally, on an anthropological note, if you've ever been to the express lane at the grocery store, you know darn well that the ability to count is not common enough among humans to qualify as an aspect of what distinguishes us from the animals around us.)

It's been interesting the past few days as Meghan and I have gotten back into bike riding around town and also looking at photography projects to realize how invested I feel in the history of Alexandria. Kinda strange, but as I glance back at things, names like Nineveh Berry still have some significance to me. I'm pretty obsessed right now with piecing together a thorough history of the development of the town, especially fleshing out this aerial photo of Alex from 1936. Too, there are some interesting stories that I'd love to read more about from the town's founding in ~ 1836. Like, for instance, there were stories about a ghost which made regular nightly walks along a path so reliably that the town put its first wooden jail right in that path to help control prisoners. And then there's the cemetery where they were going to eventually build a church, but had the plans changed when an orphan girl was kidnapped from that cemetery and the whole place was pretty much abandoned.

It's weird to think that, as little history as we live amongst in most parts of North America compared to, say, Europe or Asia, I'll be moving to a place with an even shorter settled history. I mean, the un-settled history is just as cool -- more cool in many ways. But the settled history creates buildings, roads, cemeteries, and other physical manifestations of history in my every day life, and that's something I've always taken for granted. The west is wilder but younger (so to speak), and that's yet another aspect of this move which will take some adjusting.

Laziness Rules the Day
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: The great ol' Without a Trace theme song
Topic: Website
I've still got a lot of work on the website to do, but I wanted to let everyone know what's going on. We're outsourcing the hosting of the blogs for convenience of features and to alleviate the drain on space on corduan.net. The older 'blogs can still be viewed. Mine are at http://www.corduan.net/pithouse/nickblog.html and Meghan's at http://www.corduan/net/pithouse/meghanblog.html.