Dear tourists, I’m glad you’ve decided to come to Philadelphia. Really. I think it’s cool that you’re here instead of some of the more obviously touristy cities. And kudos to you for leaving the precincts of Independence Mall and the Liberty Bell to explore Reading Terminal Market; I’m quite fond of it, so I’m glad […]
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Amanda
In a little over six months, cross fingers and knock on wood, I’ll be finished library school and have another master’s degree to my name. And, since the average job search takes about six months, I’m kicking off my post-MSLIS job search in earnest with the new year. I’ve put together an online portfolio, I’ll […]
…And who are we to deny it in here? Or, in other words, Sweeney Todd was fantastic. I had my doubts about the casting of Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, but the waifish quality she brings to the role really works, even though I had Angela Lansbury in my head as the ur-Mrs. Lovett. […]
My winter break starts tomorrow. W00t! I’m looking forward to leisure reading, sleeping late, making headway on my sweater-in-progress, prodding tentatively at the poetry-and-spatiality project, and getting in all the moviegoing I missed out on during this insanely busy fall. In particular: Sweeney Todd, because I’d want to see it no matter who was in […]
Final project status: Four down, none to go. Fall quarter at Drexel is officially done. Yay! A weekend of hosting, cooking, shopping for relatives, and general decompression awaits. Catch you all later.
I’ve blogged before about Sandow Birk’s modernized graphic-novelesque version of Dante’s Inferno. Now (via if:book) I’ve just discovered that it’s become a movie — an animated movie, with the animation done by moving hand-drawn paper puppets around in front of a camera. If that sounds like a low-budget nightmare, just watch the trailer. I can’t […]
Boy, it’s quiet around here. (…Too quiet, as they always say in the movies right before something dramatic and loud happens.) Is everyone else in the midst of end-of-term/pre-holiday madness too? My head is so crammed with final projects — current status: two down, two (both underway) to go — that I can’t even think […]
Just as I’m wrapping up work on my controlled vocabulary for knitting (final project #2, almost done), I come across this: KnitML, the knitting markup language. As the About page puts it, Imagine being able to do the following for any KnitML-based pattern: Render a pattern in either written directions or a chart, dependent on […]
There are still a boatload of projects waiting to be done, but I’ve finished my final website project for my web design class: a guide to movies about opera. I had a lot of fun working on it, and I think I’ll most likely keep it going after this quarter is over. If you’re interested, […]
Due in just over a week: one website, one thesaurus, one-quarter of a group project, and one reflection paper on the various lessons learned from doing the group project. Am I a tad stressed out? Yes, indeed! Am I going to be very happy when I’m no longer juggling work and classes and can have […]