Jolene Smith @aejolene@octodon.social
This morning I talked to my 6yo 1st grader about her most recent "code red" active shooter drill. She was lying on the floor with her head covered. She was scared because she wasn't sure it was practice. This is not OK. This is not normal.
1st jacket-free commute of 2018! 🌸🚲🌸
The way to my heart on Valentine's Day is with diamonds. The @OpenRefine@twitter.com data cleaning kind. 💕💘💎💎💘💕
Some years, lovely hand-crafted, diy kid school valentines are in order. Valentine's Day 2018 credits, however, go to the Spider-Man™ and My Little Pony™ franchises, respectively.
Possum's Rest is a good Virginia historic house name.
Reading a transcript of my own recorded words with all the "um" and "like" and "you know" fillers still included produces a special kind of discomfort.
Unexpected thing I'm learning today: how to get data out of a big ol' Access database into XML while specifying relationships/fields.
At my first History Happy Hour! Topic- Freedom Fighters at Rest: US Colored Troops at East End & Evergreen Cemeteries (Richmond).
The end of the dark, cold season approaches and I realize that I haven't done a single tactile/textile project. Mixed feelings. I've not been idle, but still.
Today I won at data.
*sobs*
JOB! Richmond, VA or DC. Project Director: Design & deploy AR tours for museums & historic sites. #dh #digiarch http://bit.ly/2sfwH3O
Among a heap of other worthy projects, this week I'm starting to pull together an #SAA2018 electronic symposium on gov't digital archaeology. Building a website for presentations (inc from ppl who can't make it to DC), thinking about a survey. Wheee!
Listening to a great lunch time lecture by @diganthro@twitter.com on her amazing work with photogrammetry, virtual excavation & printed models for @fairfieldfound@twitter.com . Archaeology teaching tools, documentation, accessibility.
Nothing like barely not getting vehicular manslaughtered to get me going on a late Monday morning. 🚲 https://youtu.be/nlPARsKX_Jc
Just took over as web editor for a professional archaeology org. So many fun possibilities. Now, to practice restraint and sensible planning.
A shitty thing happened in our family and I shared a fundraiser on facebook (which I hate, but expected response from extended fam, etc.). I've been periodically sobbing for the past two days because my colleagues and friends are so amazing.
Me @ work: "don't infantilize me; I'm an experienced professional who's been doing this job for more than a decade."
Also me: "I GET TO PICK A PRIZE FROM THE PRIZE DRAWER"
Just finished reviewing a "gold star" #crmarch report. Exemplary research & historic context, careful archaeology, great supporting graphics & tables.
One of those days where I'm simultaneously super motivated, generating lots of ideas, and completely overwhelmed by the scale of everything that needs doing and a little sad about it. This calls for teamwork, I think.
