What is happening to me?

Meat pile from the new graduate student welcome BBQ

The last week has felt like an eternity and yet every day feels like a fleeting moment.

I've been to all my classes once and feel pretty good about all of them, but still feel weird about only meeting once per week.

But, let's back up.

Ever since orientation I've been meeting a ton of people. Good thing I am freakishly good with names.

Here you see Carin, Meg, Helen and Catherine. Meg is the cake artist.

ISchool students seem to come from every background. I've met history majors, three music majors/opera singers, biology majors, art majors, engineering majors, you name it, Information's got it.

The last week has been mainly focused on scoping out the student groups. I'm an official member of the Student Association of the School of Information (that's not optional, but I'm still happy to be a part of it) and the Society for American Archivists. I didn't intend to go into archives, but the archives stuff here is well, the best in the country, so I should give it a shot. I went to an Artex meeting today, which is the group that meshes the arts with information. Tomorrow I'm going to an ALA thing so who knows? I might be a member of another group. My gut is telling me to choose one or two and be more involved than doing a little bit in all of the groups, but I seem to be a Jack of All Trades by nature.

Not school related: Hot Sauce Festival! Whyyyyy do they have it in August???? And at 11AM? I remember the hot sauce being good, but I was too distracted with the buckets of sweat dripping out of every pore in my body. Every pore.

Much more pleasant: Austin Symphony's free Concerts in the Park. In the evenings. It was the last weekend for this unfortunately. I got a group together and we brought picnic food and some wine and chatted as the sun set.

Things I have made:
Back to school. My official schedule with a thought on each class:

Monday: Organizing Information

I feel like this class is going to be interesting, but I'm disappointed that it's 40+ people.

Wednesday: Intro to Research

Probably going to be my more challenging class.

Thursday: Lab Techniques

Got in! This is more what I'm looking for vs. Intro to Preservation, I think. More hands-on. We get to make the enclosures and learn about how materials affect the books. Intro to Pres seems to be more about managing a Preservation program, which is beyond the scope I'm currently interested in.

Friday: Intro to Information

Five weeks. One credit. No big deal.

Anyway, I have work to do. Expect my future posts to be more sporadic and unorganized. Such as this one.