spring news!

Hello everyone!
I am pleased to announce that i will indeed be attending graduate school this fall! i was accepted, in addition to being granted an assistantship, at the University of Missouri, Columbia, in the grad dept of Art History and Archaeology. i am more than excited, and cant wait to get started in mid-august!

of course, life goes on before then.

these days i am done w/my temporary position at Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN, & my internship at the MN Center for Photography, and am trying desperately to find summer work to hold me over through mid-august. i have applied & interviewed for a PAID (!!!) summer internship at the James Ford Bell Library at the UofMN. i know from having met the curator w/whom i would be working that we get along, she likes me, is impressed by my resume/c.v., and a few other things that may get me this position. i also know that i was chosen by the grant committee from a number of applicants, (meaning i passed the initial elimination process), and that the curator received 6 qualified applicants, 3 of whom she told me she was interviewing, including me. so, in a pool of 3 candidates, one of which will be a phone interview (never as helpful as the real deal), i shall reside until monday, when i will receive the ok....or worse. let's hope for the go-ahead!!! keep your fingers crossed for me!!! it would be the most perfect fit for me, as the main project is a research project, working with original artifacts, in addition to some research in french & latin texts which would help me solidify some of my skills! hope...hope....hope.....!

in addition to a job, which i need to be paid (and by the way, the FBL internship would be my first actual paid internship if i got it!), i will also be continuing work on my Golden Valley Historical Society internship. right now, nate and i have completed the task of acquiring the mac computer which was donated to the Society Museum, and also acquiring all of the appropriate programs we need, especially FileMaker- we even had enough of a budget to get one of the newest versions: Pro 8! Anyhow, nate and i are now facing the daunting task of actually creating from scratch a brand new database in which to house all of the archival data for/from the museum. my goal for the summer is to have the database created and modified to the best of our ability, in addition to begin entering large quantities of data records. then, in august when the society must find a new intern, i can train some folks on the database and they can continue the project, as the museum gets set up! it's all very exciting and i feel like i am contributing alot, which is a great feeling. :)

in other news, i have, both sadly & gratefully, sold my motorcyle. yes, indeed the time has come to move on from my teenage whims to the adult world, or rather....practically using the money for other, more fruitful goals- such as graduate school expenses... i sold it to a guy who seems to really want the bike, and will take good care of it- which is always nice. i believe the goodbye ceremony shall be taking place sometime this weekend.

i have no other great stories at the moment, so till next time...................
:)

-chris