Wednesday 27 July 2011
Day 9 - Photobook
My birthday present from my infinitely generous sister arrived today. It is a photobook of our amazing trip from Phoenix to Chicago a few weeks ago. The last page is a list of the 14 most memorable moments, including the 5 hour stretch across Colorado when the A/C went out...it came back before we stopped in Sterling, CO that night. I will put it on my bookshelf next to my well worn copy of Emily Griffin's Something Borrowed. I had my meeting with Samip from the South Asian Digital Archive today, he was very cool. He was telling me about the initiative, they are collecting any and all information about South Asian immigrants to the US. There is no other organization with this type of collection, so their work is pretty ground breaking. I am supposed to be thinking of which specific tasks I would like to be involved with and we'll meet again next week. I called the U of C bookstore to check the status of my application and I have an interview next Tuesday. In college I never thought I'd be that person behind the counter, going to find the textbook for BIO 225 or empathizing with students about a professor's insistence on the new edition, which costs twice as much as the used one. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this one will come through. My roommate sent me a few job postings, I'm going to take it as a sign of her supportiveness and not a growing concern that a stranger is lounging around her house all day.
