h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[Amy]

Working hard on the shop. Maps and plans abound on A400500.

Lil, 0-0 at halftime - defence rules. There are not many Scots on show - most of the top English/Scottish teams are full of foreigners nowadays.

I find it rather ironic that a yarn I didn't initially think was worth posting - because of limited interest - to the mailing list has re-ignited your interest in the beautiful game

I am now watching the West Indies getting thrashed at cricket by Australia

Hi everybody!!!!! Flops on couch, covers self with warm blankets, and asks for some of that wonderful green tea.

I am EXHAUSTED--but just made a hundred bucks from working for so long--ought to pay for some Christmas shopping--somehow I make money at the museum and a lot of it is just going to end up back in the museum shop--but we get a good employee discount!!!

No, I am not a curator, YET. I want to be a curator more than I want anything else in life. I'm a Visual Culture & Museum Studies interdisciplinary major.

Currently, I actually am involved with three different aspects of the "art world." At the USC Department of Art, I'm a model; the gallery volunteer/assistant fish-juggler--the gallery director has been nicknamed a "fish-juggler" for her ability to get multiple impossibilities accomplished simultaneously (the fish I help her with are finding slides in the slide library, all aspects of the gallery, and planning the three conferences we are hosting in 2001); and an art history student. At McKissick Museum, I'm a volunteer--I work at the front desk when they need someone to fill in occasionally for the work study students and I do education things, and am hoping to help with some curatorial in January--not much committment there because I'm spread too thin at all these other places. At Columbia Museum of Art, my current paying job is special events staff; I am also an education intern (I used to get paid for that) and a volunteer educator/docent--and I am doing an ethnographic study of the museum.

I will be glad to point you to more web-based and/or print information about how to become a curator if you are interested and you contact me off list ([email protected]). There isn't one right path, but it's definitely a job you seek out, not one that finds you. For the largest museums you need a PhD in that museum's subfield. In smaller markets, you need at least a BA, preferably a MA in museum studies or museum experience or grad level classes in the field of the museum you hope to work at.

Anyway, I can give you lots of information about becoming a curator and museum information in general--please contact me by e-mail for more information. Thinking about, I'm seeing that there's a real need for that here.

Anyway, I'm going to BED. I am SOOOOOO Exhausted. Can I rent the couch again ,lil? See you when I wake and get crackin on my latin paper?

*Crash* sound of kathy's head hitting the table.

Kathy

No tag But, since this is your abode, I should assume that it is for you... Although, word around the laundry room is that Chloe's been making a lot of friends lately...

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Morning everyone! Why don't we let Lil open the present, unless it's ticking . . . it will probably immediately suggest who it's for. Tea? I'm doing a Latin presentation on comedy in the Pro Caelio . . . deathly boring humor if you ask me, but I'll do it to humor my professor so my grade doesn't become a source of humor or arouse my parents' humours! Anyone for hot cross puns?

Can someone explain how to get all these really cool smileys to me?

Kathy

sorry about the lengthy posts . . . I will shut up if it bothers anyone. The shop looks nice, Amy!

Kathy

Kathy, try this!

http//:www.h2g2.com/smiley

No shutting up allowed here, CChick Although I don't see a career vector in curatorship for me, I think how people get to what they want to do is awfully interesting. And fish juggling... You'll find plenty of that at h2g2.

Sporky, would you open the present for me please?

Amy, the shop looks great -- it looks sort of old-fashioned, like it would have mullioned windows and wide plank floors. The back office seems quite cosy, too.

How did I get here personally? My high school Latin teacher and I became very good friends, and her husband is a curator at Columbia Museum of Art. I went to work with him one day as part of our high school's career education program, and I decided I wanted to come back and try this out more. So he got in touch with the associate educator and told her about me, and she put me working in the teacher resource center/education library, and from there on I got more and more involved and more and more responsibilities.

The museum/non-profit community, both here and in a more national/global sense, is truly wonderful in terms of acceptance and support, no matter where you are in your career path--I mean, there just aren't major national organizations and conferences and listservs and things like that for bank employees, for example. And when you travel to another museum, you're automatically part of their family too. There's not really a sense of competition, and I guess that's part of what I like about it. The only thing it can be compared to is an academic community. Also, the jobs are so varied, and we are so individualistic and quirky, yet we do have a common goal, although it's easy to lose sight of that.

I'm going to work on my presentation now.

Kathy

I'm going to work on my hangover. Mixed grill please Matina. Yes the works. Don't forget the vodka and tomato juice.

I'm glad to know SOMEONE is having fun.

Kathy

*A calling card...*

[PCT]

*...materialises into the room. Two buttons are on the front, and pressing the first one would result in this recorded message:*

From RL:

Hey guys!

Ooh, yes, things be just hoopy here in real life...
First of all, my mock, sorry, 'Trial Exams' are over! YES! No more revising! I'll be able to come online every night again...
Secondly, we've finally got the keys to the new house we're getting on the 21st. We've started decorating today, and my room's looking great already in two shades of blue!
Thirdly, I've got 3ds Max to work now, and it is absolutely fab. Some people may say it's hard to get into, but I think it's really good actually. The best 3D package I've come across so far. Well, I suppose it was easier for me to get into it because the interface is so much like Worldcraft's, Worldcraft being the level editor for Half-Life.
I've begun work on some simple renderings, and the smallst things can look great! I'll get on with the scenes from my book as soon as I've practiced a bit.

Well, erm yes - so, things are fine here, and I should be online longer tomorrow - I was decorating all day today, and have only just got back...

So then see you all tomorrow!

Toodlepip!

*And if you were to press the other button, you would hear this:*

From VR:

Good day to you all!

As you hear this message, I will be travelling through a wormhole to Lies, the planet around which the entire dimensional problem began. I will do all that is in my power to prevent the collapse of the matrix in this sector, but I may not succeed.
If I do not make it, you will experience colour changes and time warps as the first symptoms of collapse, and it would be at that point at which you must leave this sector by any means possible. The sector for collapse is Dimensions D;-F through D;Z2, D;C being this dimension. Please vacate as soon as you experience the symptoms.
If I do make it, I shall return in a few days to continue chatting, as it were...

Wish me luck - unless you can readily skip dimensions, and you have no care for my continuing existance...

Message ends.

*The calling card lies there...*

*examines card* We better not mulch this. Matina, see if Chloe wants to play with it.

We should have an interesting gallery wing from the professor, then!

The professor leads such a complicated life.

Hi Lil, How are you?

*a small rift in space time opens; Odra pokes her head out, has a good look round, glances behind her, and steps through -- it closes behind her, save one small mote of light.
Comes quietly up the stairs, looking vaguely bewildered*

lt's as strange round here as it is back there...things keep shifting about...

MikeA gone and l can't even figure out how to edit my bloody page...

*sighs quietly to self, walks into gallery and sits quietly in front of Chloe's painting, and stares into it for a long, long time*

Doing fine, Amy. Catching up on backlog. And you? Up late again!

Odra!

Hi Lil and Amy and everyone.
l'm going to need a snorkel for the backlog, though l've managed to make myself current in this thread...