Quentin's Weeknotes 5/2/20-5/8/20

This week:

• I haven’t done weeknotes in a while. Some it’s just not having time, and some of it is a lack of fit between the philosophy of quickly logging the work I did and feeling like the work is never done. But I’m going to start up again and see how it feels for a few weeks.
• I started back at work after two weeks of leave from the Yager Museum of Art & Culture. As every parent in the pandemic viscerally understands, working from home while raising/teaching kids is astonishingly difficult and tiring. I also recognize what a privilege it is to be able to work from home and don’t take that for granted.
  • I worked on protocols for opening the Museum and what kinds of new rules, infrastructure, and information we will need for the Museum to be a space people can work and visit safely.
  • I finished a draft of some permanent panels derived from our recent exhibit Black Lives at Hartwick Then and Now. These panels will be given to the Black Student Alliance on campus for use in programming and education. I’m hoping to have the panels completed and printed before the Fall semester starts.
  • I did some work fine-tuning and updating the Yager Museum’s Past Perfect database.
  • I helped some Hartwick students create and hone their resumes.
  • I did some work trying to develop a humidity and temperature logger using a raspberry pi.
• Last week, during bandcamp’s royalty free sale, I grabbed albums by Waxahatchee, Our Native Daughters, Jean Grae and Quelle Chris, and The Mountain Goats. The Our Native Daughters record has been a real revelation–four Black Women banjo players singing old and new classics about race, femininity, violence, history and joy. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asIgRED_Yp0&w=560&h=315]
• My family and I walked for Ahmaud Arbery. Black Lives Matter.
• Fiction writing word count week start: 3376. Week end: 3848