Ok, so I was a bit naive to think I would be blogging during my unfortunate state of unemployment.  They don't tell you that you should expect days of sleep and facebook games and nothingness.  It starts to mess with your head. Sure, I had great intentions of being a blogger, of getting projects done, improving myself but intent without action never amounts to anything.  Let me catch you up...

Spent most of my time looking for work, making myself available for work, and playing with the neighborhood kiddos.  They loved all my preservation supplies- apparently the bread trays, aprons, notebooks etc. work well for a pretend restaurant. But the kids were only in it for the profit as my pretend pizza cost me $45!

There have also been some revelations about records since I had so much thinking time on my hands.  It worries me that I see boxes being stacked up on the news footage covering the dead voters on the registration books in SC but not one mention of how without the archives those boxes wouldn't be there.  I lost my job because folks just don't understand that archives are valuable.  We need to advocate for what archivists and records managers do more!

Of course then the other worry is that from my inside sources, those same boxes pictured on the news arrived at the office with water damage and no one even cared. WHAT!!!  Wow, I've only been gone a few months and look how much backsliding has occurred.  Obviously there is a leak... it needs to be fixed, but what do you do when there is no money or staff to fix said obvious problem?  Band-aid methods will help!  I am a big proponent of using cheap alternatives and fixes to get you through because let's face it, now more than ever, I understand budgeting.  So if you have a leak but can't afford the roof repairs, use tarps or move your record storage away from the hazard.  If you don't have the space to move all the records then at least move the ones closest to the leaking roof i.e. top shelf and then use tarps to protect the ones below and pans to catch the drips.  It isn't the most ideal but sometimes you gotta just make a situation work.