Quentin's Weeknotes 1/29/23-2/4/23

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This Week:

I finished reading Charlie Jane Anders' “The City in the Middle of the Night” which lives up to the LeGuin-ian accolades it received. It was a thoughtful and deeply human book that takes an outrageous and exciting premise (humans trying to live on a tidal-locked planet) and invests it with rich history, complex social and cultural politics, and rich and complicated characters. I also finished reading volume 2 of Garth Ennis' short horror series “A Walk Through Hell” which is dark and mysterious but didn’t grab me by the end.
I played around with setting up a static website, which can be written in Markdown. It sounds like a decent amount of work to get set up, and a moderate amount of work to maintain. On the other hand, my current platform is legacy-locked in 2009 and I’m getting a little tired of accumulating bugs.
In preparation for the upcoming Spring semester, I updated my syllabus for MUST204: Collections Management.
I worked on a redesign of an upcoming exhibit, and did some collections research.