Non-Caffeinated

"You have an unusual talent as an archivist for a student uninterested in the libraries.  If you're ever interested..."

Michelle, Andrew, and the rest of the staff at Special Collections has made campus life a second home to me.  I realized how much I'm going to miss them when I leave.  The Libraries had a picnic in Aldrich Park today, it was a small gathering, but intimate.  I don't exactly know the staff outside those office doors, but it was fun to be surrounded by a group of people that I identified with ever since I was a little girl.  Not many people know this, though I'm sure they're not surprised-- I've always wanted to work with books.  Sadly it had to be Disney to jump start that wish through Beauty and the Beast with Belle on those ladders on wheels, gliding from shelf to shelf filled with all kinds of books.  One of the main features I need in my future home is a huge library, even if the Kindle is going pwn me for the space I intend on using.   

I can't exactly pin my job down to one thing I do.  There's so many projects to do, you can't keep track.  My favorite part of the job is to interact with the staff and go through the hundreds of collections we house in our department.  The Virgil Partch collection was really fun to work with, he had a bunch of artwork to thumb through from the 1960s.  Or the Don Meadows collection, she was the first female forest ranger and we had her granddaughter come visit us from New York, just so she could look through all the letters, postcards, and telegrams we preserved.  It's the personal items that I'll remember most. 

I actually found a niche in the real world.  I know I'm a competent employee and a passionate one at that.  Now to carve a much larger one that's relevant to my major and experiences listed in my resume.