Now the tale can be told EDIT: and retold...and retold... :(

dude_moose · Post by **dude_moose** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:58 am

Congrats, that's a really cool job! I'd love to work with old documents and the such, especially those by a famous author!!

kisara · Post by **kisara** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:17 am

Congratulations, Kay!!!! I have to say, this is the happiest I've heard you.

And that is VERY good. I'm so glad you've found something you'll love. And you get paid for it! Ya can't beat that any way ya look at it!

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:50 am

I'm going to write a hallmark movie in your honor using your story

That is so great to hear a "niceguy" winning in the end, and I can't think of anyone else who deserves something like this better. Congrats!

Baylor · Post by **Baylor** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:38 am

Sooo incredibly jealous! Congrats on getting a job that you will love and get to work with your favorite author's writings! Like blueheaven said, you're one of the few who gets such an opportunity!

Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:49 pm

YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!

Post by **sensei** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:32 pm

Many congratulations, Baakay! I remember from better days being able to work in a center like this (for Hawthorne, though most of the materials were copied from other, more impressive archives). The nice thing is that after you work with the actual day-to-day materials, you eventually get a sense of how the man actually thought. That's eerie ... and leads to spooky insights.

You certainly deserve it with all your work in the trenches.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:27 pm

Thanks, everyone!! Now if I can just survive the wait for them to get someone else into MY job...

Michener isn't actually my *favorite* author (that would be a close fight-out between Mercedes Lackey, Stephen Donaldson, and L.E. Modesitt), but I've never read any of Michener's books that I didn't enjoy.

I actually got to catalog some of the book collection a few years back, which used to be kept in a special room that someone thought looked like his old office. (Trust me, it didn't). These were all translations, and the challenge was to discover WHAT LANGUAGE THEY WERE IN!!

So I have actually added records to the international databse for books in Thai, and Czech, and several other languages that I don't speak. Thank god for international students...

One of the little beasties awaiting proper treatment -- his dentures.

I kid you not.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:27 pm

Do you believe in God ?

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:28 pm

Cloud wrote:Do you believe in God ?

Funny you should ask me that question, Cloud, as I was just discussing this very issue with my kids today.

I believe that I am not a wise enough person to have an intelligent opinion on what might be or might not be. How's that?

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:28 pm

Oh I see you are NOT A wise enough person to have an intelligent opinion on what might be or might not be.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:29 pm

Cloud wrote:Oh I see you are NOT A wise enough person to have an intelligent opinion on what might be or might not be.

That's correct. Now, do you remember my name?

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:28 am

"SHAFT"!!!!!

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:26 pm

It's funny how just this morning I was explaining to Klet how no, it's not that unusual for job changes internally to take forever here... blah blah blah.

And I just learned -- unofficially -- that my colleague from elsewhere HAS accepted my job (which I kinda knew because she wrote asking if I was available for lunch on the 11th)...

... but that she won't start until April 2006.

five... more.... months...

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:38 pm

Hang in there. Karma is slow.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:40 pm

Not Sir Phobos wrote:Hang in there. Karma is slow.

Yeah, but us old farts don't have that long left to hang, you know?

*hobbles away, creaking and groaning*

Anime-Beta TNG

Now the tale can be told EDIT: and retold...and retold... :(

The update... sigh heavy sigh

Now the tale can be told EDIT: and retold...and retold... :(

The update... *sigh* *heavy sigh*

The update... sigh heavy sigh