Weeknotes: 10/22/23-10/28/23

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This Week:

My wife discovered that the wracking cough she has been dealing with for a few weeks now is in fact a case of pneumonia. She’s been laid up the past week, and I’ve done my best to try and make her comfortable and keep the house from collapsing into a pile of rubble.
The Museum hosted “The Horror in the Museum”, our Halloween storytelling event. It’s on of my favorite events of our whole year, and this year did not disappoint.
I continued to do some work on collections research for NAGPRA compliance and potential repatriation.
I finished reading “The Motion Demon” by Stefan Grabinski. This is a collection of stories by “the Polish Poe” that hover around the fundamental weirdness, anxiety, and mystery of trains. The best stories in the collection play with the idea of motion as a supernatural force, and explore the impacts that it has on people caught up in it. A fun way to get into the Halloween spirit.
We went to a trunk or treat at the Oneonta Boys and Girls club.
I did some work moving things along in Hartwick’s DEI-Indigenous affairs committee.