Sorry, it’s almost midnight and I have had a long week and I’ve got a long day tomorrow.
At the digitalization internship, I finished up making OCR PDFs of the school catalogs and handbooks. I was then assigned to go through some unsorted scans and sort them into folders based on topic, addressee, etc. It was disturbing to read about the typhoid outbreak at the turn of the last century where several of the girls died. A letter from the North Carolina health board ranted about people being like “quails” and freaking out for nothing. Then at the bottom was a “sorry about the dead girls” (paraphrased). Also I have new respect for the first president, Charles D. McIver. He wrote frequent letters to his “Dear Lula” while he was away from home. They were very sweet and I have a hard time imagining modern males writing such letters.
Since it was a holiday weekend, I only worked Thursday at the museum archives. I transcribed interviews from locals about their experiences in World War II-era Greensboro. My boss then showed me the new exhibit which my work is contributing to (those Civil War scans from a couple weeks ago will also being in the exhibit). Before work though, I was walking around the cemetery which is amazing and overgrown with various plants.
On Saturday, I got to meet Irma Luz Garcia from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was very energetic and carried the whole party by herself with her translator by her side. She was not what I expecting at all with her bright dress and cardigan, big jewelry, and wide smile. At the end of the night, she shook hands, said “Ciao!” and air kissed people’s cheeks. I’ve never been air kissed before or understood her goodbye speech, so I felt awkward as I nodded. Tomorrow I’m giving a 10 minute presentation which is reducing me to all nerves.
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