Weeknotes: 4/21/28-4/27/24
This Week:
- Dominic and I keep working our way through Louis Sachar’s “Wayside School” series. It’s a very strange and clever series, and occasionally laugh out loud funny. I’ve come to think of it as “Young Adult Weird Fiction”, sort of like if Jeff Vandermeer wrote books for elementary school kids. This week, we finished “Wayside School is Falling Down”, and we’re on to the next.
- I finished listening to Robert Jackson Bennett’s “Shorefall”, the second book in the Founders trilogy, and also reading Steven Stoll’s “Larding the Lean Earth: Science and Soil in 19th Century America”. The former continued the series' interesting world and electric pacing, though I find the villains' motivations and abilities a bit murky. The latter I’m probably going to write some notes about, as it’s a subject I spent a great deal of my life thinking about.
- Friday, we installed some new artwork at the President’s residence.
- In MUST204, more cataloging work on Hartwick Seminary.
- I worked with a student intern on her display, which is coming together nicely.
- More work finalizing the NAGPRA grant. Deadline in two weeks!
- I finished watching “A Field in England”, another triumphantly strange Ben Wheatley film. This is a faux historical piece about greed, violence, and magic, set during the English Civil War. It was delightfully weird, ambiguous, funny in places, and gorgeously shot. I’m still thinking about many aspects of it, especially the divining scene, which, though not violent or grotesque in any way, manages to be one of the most disturbing and shocking scenes I’ve seen in a film in a long time.
- I had one kiddo all day Monday and the other for a half day Thursday. We took the opportunity to climb up table rock and have a picnic
