The pages are still warm from having just been printed, but that, my friends, is that for the semester. Technically, I still have two more class meetings to go, but I have no more work to do for either of them.

I submitted my paper (using the extension kindly granted to our class by the preservation instructor) last night. It took me all day, though, to finish my Oral History paperwork. I seriously thought I’d be done by 11:00 and could go print stuff out on our break. Alas, this was not so. But, whatever, it’s a cool project and it’s done. So there. (That’s not to say I wasn’t beating myself up for not having it done when the instructor wanted.)

For my textile preservation paper, I annotated a handful of sources and included that along with my summary of textile preservation needs, because the paper wasn’t quite long enough, and I had run out of things to say. By “not quite long engough” I mean that I was done at five pages. The other five consist of my comments about some of my sources, furiously checking the word count every paragraph or so. Luckily, though, the annotations fit right in with what I was trying to accomplish with that assignment: orienting archivists to the potential needs of textiles and introducing them to excellent sources online. So, yeah, it worked.

I’ll write more about the Oral History project when I’ve had a day or so to decompress. It was a great experience, but the clerical work at the end has worn me out. Oh, I still want to make a super fun cover for the CD, too. I’m also planning on putting together a little thank you package for the Elkins family, who have been so generous and kind. It would be great if I could deliver the package in person, but the next time I’ll see them will be for the Yarn Harlot event on the 30th, and they’ll be totally consumed by Her Canadian Awesomeness that I wouldn’t want to bombard them with my project results.