Weeknotes: 12/15/24-12/21/24
This Week:
- This is a week to clean up after the end of the semester, and I got a lot done.
- I spent a bunch of time getting old software installed on my work computer. After our campus-wide crash earlier this semester, they’re really locking down who can do what.
- I did a lot of repatriation planning and orchestrating this week, including my trip to Colorado to return materials to the Ute, coordinating with the Mohawk on returning materials to them in a couple months, and confirming with some other institutions that materials of ours that are in their possession are not human remains. This is a big part of my job and I am always glad when I can take big steps to get more of it done.
- I printed and installed some transcripts of the oral histories that are a part of “With That Shadow Over Them”.
- I had a good chat with my friend Randall, and with my friend and colleague Kajsa. I also picked up my mother-in-law from the train station for our upcoming holiday.
- I finished reading Laird Barron’s “Worse Angels”, a fun and dark detective novel, set in the wild hills of the Southern Tier. Very different in tone from his horror (which I also love) but great, nonetheless.
