One more term paper …

… and then I’ll be done for the semester.  It’s been a long time since I last updated, but with all of the schoolwork and internship searching I have been both incredibly busy and uncertain, so blogging seemed a bit counterproductive.

However, all of the searching has paid off.  Back in January I got an offer for an unpaid internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Image Library, and while it would have been an amazing opportunity, the responsible thing to do was to keep looking for something paid.  I am so very grateful to the Met for understanding that financial circumstances can be the height of inconvenience, and I recently accepted a paid internship at Yellowstone National Park’s Research Library and Archives.

So I’m getting pretty excited about spending the summer in Montana and Wyoming.  And, as part of UM’s School of Information Practical Engagement Program (PEP), in order to get credit for the experience, I have to keep a blog.  Conveniently enough, I already have one, so I will definitely be updating more frequently – especially once I leave Texas in May to drive up there.

Oh, my poor little Civic, climbing the Rockies.  The thought is a little daunting, but it’ll get there.

The last time I was in Yellowstone was the summer of 2000.  I spent a summer in Wyoming on a service project with Global Routes at the Wind River Reservation.  That was where I first fell in love with the West.  I swear, I breathe better out there.  Here is a picture from that trip:

There’s an oldie, but goodie.  Those who have only known me since college have probably never seen me that dark (or covered in children), but I think that’s about as much continuous sun exposure as I’ve ever had in my life, and thankfully my Mediterraean skin handled it well.  I might look like that again after this summer – there’s no reason to be inside when the average high in July is 72!

~ by Jess on April 20, 2009.