by Quentin Lewis

Weeknotes: 01/12/2025-01/18/2025

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This Week:

  • We started off the week with a bunch of home renovation. Alanna painted the downstairs bathroom a dramatic shade of green, and I put in a new (and classier) faucet. I replaced our front door latch. And we drove out to Smithville Flats to buy a wonderful round wooden dining table. A home is always a process.
  • At the Museum, I spent a good part of the week de-installing the Micronesia exhibit, and preparing the room to be repainted for the new exhibit that will replace it, entitled “Discovering our Place: Living, learning, and playing in these hills.” We also took down and put away a massive painting by Carl Dietz, which had been up in the main gallery for nearly five years. It was an ordeal in and of itself to put it away; it’s too big to fit in the elevator!
  • I did some more work getting supplies and getting things ready for Hazel’s birthday party on Sunday!
  • I did some prep work for my upcoming repatriation trip to Colorado.
  • Alanna and I finished watching season 1 of “Severance”. Amazing, dark, and funny show about work, memory, and technology. Like Lost, I cannot imagine that the ending of the show will bear the weight of all the of mystery and clues that the creators have layered into it, but the ride is a lot of fun.
  • I finalized the syllabus the directed study I’m doing in the Spring. The topic is “Foundations in 18th century material culture.” It’s a lot of stuff I read in undergrad or grad school, so I’m excited to dust this material off again to work with a student.
  • On Friday, my folks showed up to kick off a week-and-a-bit long stay. We did a second round of Christmas, drank some good wine, and caught up. It’s lovely to have them here, even if I’m only going to get to see them for part of the time.