i have a job, i have a job! and by job, i mean unpaid internship in oakland! i’ve been waiting all week–since tuesday, stupid monday holiday–to hear back from the boss-lady about whether they could hire me for this internship since i’m not technically a student at san jose state yet. however, she just emailed me and said it was fine and i get to work tuesday and wednesday from 10-4! in oakland! in a warehouse! by the docks! best job ever!
but seriously. the job is actually for the chabot space and science center in oakland. and what i will be doing is working at the off-site holding facility of the chabot archives in a warehouse in oakland. which is kind of alameda really, but whatever. at the warehouse, i get to process a collection of some important chabot woman who used to be president of mills college–which entails cataloguing all the letters and documents in her file folder box and organizing them chronologically and in groups. in addition they have 6 or 7 boxes of glass negatives of photographs from expeditions sent around the world by the first president of chabot to document solar eclipses. all these negatives are housed poorly and completely uncatalogued so i get to go through them, captionator them, and rehouse them in a more protective environment. i saw some of the negatives at my interview and they were wicked cool, so i am wicked excited.
sure it’s unpaid, but it’s also only for the summer until i start school. and sure i still need to find some part-time employment to sustain me otherwise, but whatever. i’m riding high on this chabot train for the mo and am going back to sunbathe in the backyard. yes. because i need to be more tan to work in a warehouse. and i’ve got trashy young adult novels to read and a leg to itch. fucking poison ivy from angel island, i hate you.
So wait…you decided on a school? Doing what? How did I miss this?
mmm, i am bad at communication sometimes. i’m going back to school in the fall to get a masters in library science at san jose state. i’m waiting to hear if i get any scholarship/grant money, but it’s pretty cheap as a state school, so it should be all right either way. and i’m doing the classes online at least for the first year so i’m not moving to san jose or anything.
p.s. just so you don’t feel completely left out, my brother only discovered i was going back to school last friday when i saw x-men 3 with him and mentioned it.
Did you like X3? I was disappointed. I expected more and I got denied.
i hated it vociferously the day i saw it and the day after. but then i acclimated and started realizing everything about it which makes it the best damn x-men movie ever. i need to write a review. which only people who have seen it will be able to read. i’ll get on that. one of these days. when i’m not reading or tanning. or, conversely now, working.