Elena Colón-Marrero @elenarchivist@glammr.us

Just sent a pdf of a slide deck from MPOW with a chart that represents high, medium, and low in varying shades of teal and I cannot differentiate the shades very well. I just asked if there was a different version of the chart that’s more accessible, but I doubt I’ll get a satisfactory answer.

I think the day went well. I got great feedback from my presentation & can only help as the first interview I set the bar high. Fingers crossed. 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

Thanks for the advice everyone! I walked a little but didn’t realize how steep the walk up from BART was. I found a bench and hid out until I wasn’t a sweaty mess, but also meditated.

I’m gonna arrive to Berkeley an hour early for my interview. Do I risk getting another coffee & potentially needing to use the bathroom before my presentation or loiter around campus for a while?

My least favorite thing about sewing is having to iron yards of fabric before cutting. I understand the purpose but my ironing board just can’t handle yards of 60inch wide fabric plus the animals like sleeping in the parts that pool on the floor

For transparency the spreadsheet was restored to a version from September 24 that was restored & updated from a September 21 version. I’ve combed through all of the changes since I last restored the sheet & updated the sheet to reflect those changes.

For those following the archivists salary transparency spreadsheet (http://bit.ly/archivistsalaries19) that emerged out of this yr’s SAA it has been locked by me to deal with a number of sorting issues that took place over the last two weeks. A submission form is linked to in the sheet.

I still have about 8 minutes worth of content to write for my presentation plus a slide deck & practice but I’m already burned out, tired, and just done.

What are folx’s thoughts on extra leading zeros in filenames? For example 0100 over 100

Web archiving has come back up at work & I feel that all my work putting no web archiving into our new collection development plan was for naught

A researcher just reached out asking if we can break open a plaque to read the cds and make the content publicly available. Oh and if we could solicit additional donations from the donor.

As we have never been asked these questions before I have to come up with a nice way of saying no.

I got an on-site! Now I need to figure out (or make?) an interview outfit because I never replaced my business casual attire after I gained weight and have nothing appropriate to wear.

She also had a habit of leaving her dirty dishes in the sink over breaks & I one point I resorted to hiding pots and pans in my room when I needed to cook.

My other roommate informed me & we quickly rewashed ALL of the dishes while the other roommate was gone. We tried to ask her how she washed dishes but she denied doing what we saw. After that we tried to wash our own dishes as quickly as possible before she got to them.

That bon appetit article about washing the bottom of your dishes is going around & man do I have a story that I can’t put on that site cuz the person follows me. One roommate walked in on another while she was washing dishes. She did the thing where you fill one basin up with water so the dirt dishes soak. After she washed the dishes she dipped the clean dish IN THE DIRTY WATER to rinse off & left it to dry.

In other IT woes my account has broken the helpdesk ticketing system and I’m now regulated to requesting help via Slack. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not.

I ingested a thing!!!!! ~happy dance~

I just want to start ingesting materials. 😫

I have a phone interview next week and I feel like I forgot how to interview. 🙃

My take away: planning a section meeting is hard and I don’t want to do it again.