6.22.2006
boo to roadblocks
so my whole family was sick this week. from the day i got home from berkeley to yesterday at least one person was sick every day with the stomach flu. ick. needless to say, since i was only sick the first day, i was doing more baby-sitting and less researching than i would have liked. now i have 300ish pages to read for this week and i started, basically, today. bother. thankfully this research is internally driven and i am feeling fairly generous given the extenuating circumstances. i also managed to make $80 babysitting this week which is pretty sweet.
texas is also still in the final planning stages due to illness and lack of internet access since mom has a lot of work for this weekend (she organizes a big holistic festival thingy four times a year, and one is this sunday)(yeah, did i mention i was raised a big hippie?) its looking like i'll only have three full days in the archives though, due to evil national holidays giving librarians excuses not to be open all the time just to serve my needs! *sigh* life is so hard sometimes... fortunately, this archive is open 9-5 instead of 1-5 and since i know whats up with archival research i'm not so worried about it. also this one shouldn't be under construction which means i won't have to wait 2 days just to see things they didn't feel like bringing with them. and, more importantly, i will be home and away from texas by the dreaded national fireworks day alleviating some serious anxiety about being anywhere near stetsons and cowboy boots on the 4th. yes i am a coastal liberal snob, but i might as well embrace it since i can't seem to change it. oh well.
in general, though, life is good. the fire that is burning 14,000 acres is about an hour (and a half maybe) north of me and moving the other direction (though its been raininig little pieces of ash which makes sunset really pretty), and even though they have moved away from predicting "the big one" for norcal and are now predicting "the big one" for the san andreas fault we don't live directly on the fault line so i'm not too worried. also they predict "the big one" every few years and so far so good. oh, and i spoke to my father and three sisters for the first time ever on the phone yesterday, which was sweet. i'm seriously considering a made-for-tv-movie... maybe i'll write it in my spare time next year (ha). ¶ 6:13 PM
texas is also still in the final planning stages due to illness and lack of internet access since mom has a lot of work for this weekend (she organizes a big holistic festival thingy four times a year, and one is this sunday)(yeah, did i mention i was raised a big hippie?) its looking like i'll only have three full days in the archives though, due to evil national holidays giving librarians excuses not to be open all the time just to serve my needs! *sigh* life is so hard sometimes... fortunately, this archive is open 9-5 instead of 1-5 and since i know whats up with archival research i'm not so worried about it. also this one shouldn't be under construction which means i won't have to wait 2 days just to see things they didn't feel like bringing with them. and, more importantly, i will be home and away from texas by the dreaded national fireworks day alleviating some serious anxiety about being anywhere near stetsons and cowboy boots on the 4th. yes i am a coastal liberal snob, but i might as well embrace it since i can't seem to change it. oh well.
in general, though, life is good. the fire that is burning 14,000 acres is about an hour (and a half maybe) north of me and moving the other direction (though its been raininig little pieces of ash which makes sunset really pretty), and even though they have moved away from predicting "the big one" for norcal and are now predicting "the big one" for the san andreas fault we don't live directly on the fault line so i'm not too worried. also they predict "the big one" every few years and so far so good. oh, and i spoke to my father and three sisters for the first time ever on the phone yesterday, which was sweet. i'm seriously considering a made-for-tv-movie... maybe i'll write it in my spare time next year (ha). ¶ 6:13 PM
