Thanks for the encouraging comments regarding my last post. It was whiney, yes, but had to be done. Sometimes you just have to put things in to words to make them more managable. I feel much better, and am now looking at my situation much more realistically. Just had to indulge in a pity party for a few minutes. Ok, moving on!

This is the last week of school. Here’s a list of what I need to finish, and the order in which I need to finish them:

1. Archives paper, Topic: Archives and Postmodernism. Title: “Postmodernists to Archivists: ‘No more passive guardians!'” It’s getting there, but I still have to put it all together coherently. It’s now three days late.
2. “Interview with a library director” paper. Still in the notes stage, but it’s not due until tomorrow, so there’s still time.
3. Archival description project. Will include a MARC record and an EAD version of a finding aid (from a project last semester) that I remade according to the DACS standard. Those bits are done (except for minor editing in the DACS finding aid). Now I just need to write the short paper on digitizing that has to go with it. Due Thursday.
4. Internship project. Getting there. I think I’ll finish on time. I have one day left at the internship, then the project gets turned in on Thursday. Every folder has been described, and all of the materials are now intellectually combined with like materials. The physical arrangement just needs to fit with the intellectual arrangement. I’ll finalize my notes, then put it all together on Tuesday, along with looking up some stuff for the finding aid, like full names, dates, etc. And there are some things that still need to be pulled out in to an oversize folder, and some that still need mylar protection because they’re falling apart. I’ve made notes of these things, and on Tuesday, I’ll have a list ready of all the tasks that I need to do before I finish the finding aid. Some things aren’t going to be described as well as I’d like them to be because there wasn’t enough time to read all of the letters. It was difficult enough trying to make sense of the whole series. There were pieces of like materials strewn all through it. One guys letters were in several places, and photocopies of those letters were all over the place as well. I had to bring those together, weed through it to make sure I could throw out the copies.
5. Evaluation plan. Due Thursday. Because we’ve been working on it all semester, it’s mostly done. I just have to put it all together, edit it for cohesion, and add a couple of short bits at the end. I’ll be doing this on the due date, but I think it will work out fine, since the bulk of it is already done.

So, there you have it. The only project that’s causing me serious anxiety is the Internship. I just ran out of time to do it as well as I would have wanted to. But that’s how it is, eh? We only get 24 hours each day. Speaking of time, I’ll get back to my paper now.