Updates

School: Has been going fine for the most part. Both classes are online and involve me doing daily readings. The cataloging class started out as a complete mess and 2 weeks ago the proff dropped out. Ya, she took a leave of absence. We have a new prof and things are progressing. We've put together a local group to go over homework too, so I'm not worried about this class at all at this point.

Knee: For the first time in a week it feels like it might have healed up. I'll see about starting to exercise again probably starring on Saturday.

Work: I'm still unemployed, but with prospects. I had applied for two jobs at the Portland Art Museum. I kind of knew I was under qualified for one and over qualified for the other. I heard back and PAM agreed with my findings. Ugh, the under qualified position was actually my local dream job (Curator of Photography), I suspect I'll need a second MA if I ever really want to land this sort of job. The other was working in PAM library as a page. Honestly I'm over qualified and as soon as I could find job I'd have left. I don't blame em. If anything I'll see about doing an internship this summer. But onto prospect #2.

Work pt II: So last November I was woken up at 8am by rather odd call. It was actually wrong number call. They asked for someone I used to work with in previous job and when I told em they had the wrong number they asked what number they had called. It turns out they were recruiter for animation study in Connecticut. And by Connecticut I mean this sliver of land jets into suburban NYC (Westchester). Anyway, they were in town and wanted me to come in and do an interview. So a day later I sit down with them and find out that they had been look for an archivist much earlier in the year. Unable to find one, they had closed the position. After going over my work history, they were pretty excited that I might be perfect should the position open up again. OK, so I just interviewed for a position that didn't really exist and I'd have to move to one place I'm really iffy about ever living in. Why? because I used to spend part of my summer's as kid in NYC and hated it. Actually I hated it mostly because I had to live with my dad. As an adult I've avoided entertainment work there for nearly 20 years. But after living in Portland for the last 3 years, NY actually looks inviting to me. I won't actually be living in Manhatton (too expensive anyway) since the location of the studio is out in the Burbs. I'd be in the Bronx area, but more likely White plains or Yonkers.
Down sides would be that I'd still need a car (the place is not on any train routs) and I have no idea how I can store the scooters. Oh ya, if they do open up the position again I'd have to wait till February. Well it's February and I hadn't heard from them, so I dropped them an email last week about prospects of employment mostly since I wanted to start looking for internships locally. Anyway, they were happy to hear back from me and I was told that they should be reopening the position very soon. The plan would be to go out there and do a proper interview and get a feel fro the place in about a month. Of course nothing is written in stone at the moment, I have no idea what they will pay me either. Ugh. Anyway, that's the job front.

Not much else going on in life, other then too much mediocre photography.