This song is quite haunting.

Send me away with the words of a love song

I have to go to my internship in a moment, but I thought I should commemorate the website’s competition. In the last long stretch, I put in 43.25 hours to pull it together. It’s unbelievably heavy with modules to just get basic functions working, which is frustrating, but my lack of knowledge about php probably has a lot to do with it. What I look forward to most are having my browser tabs back to myself and typing in my website address without it trying to auto-complete for the broken Drupal tester website.

What more can you ask when Charlize Theron is kicking ninja butt to save her lover?

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.

I listened to four episodes of Doctor Who from 2005. That show is quite amazing.

Bio, Charu, Seth, and Sykia are from my joint project with Shiver.

High five~!

Then at the archives internship, while I’m waiting for the six minute long scans of negatives, I draw. I have posted the results of one of my pieces here. So, I’m finding my internships to have some personal rewards amongst all the redundancy of sending the scanner sliding back along the glass for another image.

On the other hand, the air mask looks ridiculous and is hard to breathe while wearing, but I left the library today without a headache.

Talia and Damion belong to Shiver

A character shared with Shiver

via albotas

I love Peanuts and smart graffiti so this was an instant win for me.