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June 12, 2007
Moving and Loss
I'm not thinking about the existential misery of moving and leaving things behind, the immediate horror of having moved and not being able to find stuff!
Another Damned Medievalist was asking recently about note taking - most recently about EndNote and how to keep track of stuff.
I change systems periodically, which is what I'm cussing now. I know that I had a certain book (J.D. Beazley's The Pan Painter. Marburg, 1974) in hand sometime last year, took notes on it, and put them somewhere. I am morally certain they're on paper in a manila folder. Where is it!?! I only moved across the hall.
Just goes to show I should have stuck with keeping things in .doc files (though I've been gradually shifting to .txt files) and searching.
The upside? I've just consolidated a bunch of stuff - tossed piles, made a pile that MUST go to school, made a pile that MUST be used this summer, and filed a bunch of stuff. There's still stuff in boxes, but all the boxes are smaller. So, progress of a sort. I've also re-requested the Beazley from Inter library loan (yay for online ILL requesting!).
Sad to say - the only thing I really need from it is to know what the shepherd boy is carrying in the Pan side of Boston Museum of Fine Arts 10.185 (click and scroll for a detail). It's some kind of little whip or flail, but what's it called in Greek? Beazley told me. I wrote it down. I swear.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 12, 2007 5:16 PM