Writing to please the science community …

I’m working on a paper right now that evaluates an NEH grant used to fund preservation of motion pictures, and I’m having a hard time getting out of history mode.  I’ve realized just how accustomed I am to writing papers for liberal arts, and it’s starting to freak me out a bit that I’m having a hard time focusing on some things that are kind of important.

The project I’m evaluating is one proposed by the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to preserve films of Native Alaskans from the 1930s to 1970s, and as I’m going through the project database, I’m really working to focus on metadata and scope instead of US History and Native American cultural struggles – the latter being my natural inclination.

*sigh*

I’ll be happy when this paper is done.  At least it’s split up between group members, and I don’t have to do the copyright portion.  That would be even worse.

… or the freak out could be partially due to the fact that I’m working on a paper at 2am on a Saturday night … I have no life.  Welcome to grad school, Jessica!

On a side note, while at the Museum yesterday, I cataloged a surrender flag from right after the Boxer Rebellion in China that someone would have hung outside their door for the relief troops to see.  It said (in lovely, English script):

Noble Men, Good Men, Sir, Please do not kill us.

… and I’m sure that the original author did not intend for it to amuse me here in 2008, but it did.  Just a little.

~ by Jess on October 12, 2008.