Athene Numphe

Yesterday after work I helped MDB with the final part of her capstone by playing theatre techie. She did this two week workshops with some kids that included them making short movies. Yesterday was the screening of the movies for their families. I'm really glad that I came with her because I was able to speak Tech to the tech director of the theatre where the stuff was being shown. We ended up setting up a projector and screen attached to an independent sound system. After MDB left to go get the kids, lordaerith showed up to help also (actually, he was the one that originally was supposed to be helping). He talked to the tech director guy a bit, and fiddled with the lights so that there could be a spotlight on the stage.

The whole thing went pretty well. I worked sound and computer from the middle of the audience and Aerith worked lights from the booth. The movies were actually pretty well done for middle-school age productions.

After it was over, Aerith and I headed out to Central Market for Poly dinner. Yay for seeing people that we haven't seen in ages and ages. Had some good food and good conversations. Found out that juliarandolph got me a present. Also started talks for a showing of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter because more people need to see that movie. The Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow was showing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at Central Market that evening also, but Aerith was getting really tired, so we left just as the movie was starting.

Currently I am avoiding doing work at work. It's cold in here.

As I'm sure all of you are aware from my twitter updates, I'm currently in New Orleans. I wanted to write many times, but I've always been too busy/tired.

Got in on Monday of last week (an hour late). queencimmy picked me up and we got mani/pedis. Then met up with AH, who I will now call Sweetness, to discuss my capstone project and stuff.

On Tuesday I ran errands with Sweetness in the morning and went out to lunch with queencimmy and nola_poet and his friend in the afternoon to Crabby Jack's. After lunch we were hanging out at mom's house when we saw the mice. There are mice because of all the abandoned houses and the like. One of them was chased onto a sticky pad, but the other one escaped. We named the one on the sticky pad Sticky and the other one Houdini. Poor Sticky.

On Wed. I drove mom to work. In the afternoon I was on my way to Whole Foods, but somehow ended up at Hansen's in line for a snoball. Probably because the day was so hot. I got a "mocha" snoball (half cream of chocolate, half cream of coffee). Then I headed to Whole Foods. At Whole Foods there was no one at the meat counter so I had to get the guy's attention. We ended up talking about snoballs and Hansen's. He asked for a taste of my snoball and was surprised when I gave one to him. He then gave me .25lbs off of my meat as a thank you for the bite. :) Also teased with the bagger about taking him home in the bag. I really love this city sometimes.

Wed night we went to the Prytania for a midnight showing of Indiana Jones. Was a lot of fun. ( Spoilers here )

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday saw me running more errands both by myself and with Sweetness and doing other things for my capstone. In terms of my capstone, I considered last week to be my prep week. I've blogged more extensively about what I've done for it on the Sno-Bliz blog. Also got to finally meet coffeebeanben. Thursday night I went with mom to a group dinner thing that was a lot of fun. Got to talk about musicals and play with a little baby.

Saturday night Oblivion and I went out to dinner at Lebanon's Cafe where we randomly ran into a huge group of people that he knew, some of whom I knew too and hadn't seen in ages. Unfortunately they already had way too many people at their table, so we ate a the next table and harassed them *grin*. Then we headed down to the quarter to meet up with the group at Pravda. Had good geeky conversation. Yay.

Sunday queencimmy, her friend M from out of town, and I went down to the Quarter. We started out at Cafe Du Monde and then walked around Charters and Decatur and stuff for shopping. I got two pairs of really cute shoes that fit me and were on uber-sale. Hurray! (It's so hard for me to find shoes, this is amazing). We stopped by CimDouble's and played some Wii Fit, which was fun, even if it does try to make you cry. Tried to take M to Hansen's, but they'd had such a busy day that they ran out of ice at 6:30pm and had to close early! Ended up at Deanie's for dinner instead.

Today I worked on trying to clean up the clothing in my room. I threw out 4 bags of old icky clothes (and shoes) and have a huge pile of stuff to donate. Also found an old t-shirt and an old sweatshirt of Quee's that I must have stolen from him when we were dating 10 years ago. I wonder if he wants them back...

Tomorrow is more work on my capstone and then queencimmy and I head back to Austin for a little while on Wed.

And now, time for bed.

...cause the lists are starting again.

Actually there are 5 weeks left, but I have so much to do that I need me a list.

• Advanced Digitization
  
  • 15 page paper due April 14
    
    • Revise proposal based on prof's suggestions
      
    • Go over each of the three video collections' (Open Video Project, Living Room Candidate, and Folkstreams) web sites, published literature, and already conducted interviews to see how they hold up to the NISO Digital Collections "Collections" principles.
      
    • Send out questions to contacts for missing information
      
    • Write paper based on research and interviews (by April 10??)
      
    • Have someone who is a stickler for grammar look over paper (mother?) cause prof is picky.
      
    • Create annotated bibliography?
  • 20 min presentation on paper due April 28
    
  • Stay on top of readings
  
  
• New Media Technology and Culture
  
  • 25-30 page paper due April 29
    
    • Do the research on Lost (specifically Nikki and Paulo)
      
      • Keep listening to Official Lost Podcast
        
      • Find more postings from Television with out Pity and alt.tv.lost. bookmark/print them out.
        
      • Find more magazine articles about Nikki and Paulo
        
      • Find more background lit - look into TV Fandom
    • Make changes, do research, etc based on return of paper proposal
      
    • Write and Edit paper
      
    • Make changes based on presentation feedback
      
    • Update Bibliography
  • Research Paper Presentation (20 min) due April 22
    • Create presentation based on findings at that date.
  • Stay on top of readings
  
  
• Digital Media Collections
  
  • Assignment 3 - Central Texas Gardner due May 1
    
    • Work with group to come up with ideas for their web site
  • Assignment 4 - Preserving Texas Past due May 1, with updates to client due every Thurs.
    
    • Look over MDB's research into contents of collection. figure out what is needed for database
      
    • Work on coming up with database structure
      
    • Figure out a metadata schema that would work well for collection
      
    • Help MDB with interface look
      
    • Come up with ideas for future
      
    • Document EVERYTHING for the paper
  • Stay on top of readings
  
  
• Capstone
  
  • Get all paperwork filled out and turned in by April 25.
    
  • Finalize web site design
    
  • Find out about web hosting stuff and work it all out
    
  • Get basic web site up by time store opens for Summer, April 25?
    
  • Contact archives about taking the materials/letting me use their digitization equipment
  
  
• Work
  
  • Finish up Mail Merge tutorial video (I mean it this time)
    
  • Prep for and teach CSS workshop - April 4
    
  • Get generic short course feedback form up and working
  
  
• Attend Edible Book Festival - March 29
  
• Go to Karaoke at least once or twice more to relax
  
• Celebrate end of semester by going home for Jazz Fest - May 2-5.
  
• Look into registering for JCDL in June (and figure out everything that goes along with it). Early registration deadline is May 19.
  
• Register for SSA in late May.
  
• Make poster for SSA.
  
• Start thinking about possibly starting to look for and apply to jobs

I'm sure other things will come up (and there's always the ever-present housework), but this is all I can think of for now. Is sooo much...