Yesterday started my third term as a graduate student. This term is full of a lot of work, a lot of survey and a lot of inventory. I’m okay with that, its good practice. I’ve got an exciting lineup of classes including a buildings of oregon survey in which I am collecting data for a book that will eventually be written and published [although not by me]. Other classes are a National Register Nomination class [learning how to go through the process of getting a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places], a survey and inventory class, an internship seminar [how to get one, how to get credit for doing it] and a preservation of woods and metals class. That’s the partner to my preservation of masonry class that I took last term. The woods and metals class is about half HP students and half architecture students. It includes assignments in which I will get to use my training as an architect which is something that I am absolutely ecstatic about. I actually really miss drafting and drawing and detailing.

Work is strangely interesting right now. Last term I designed a new brochure for an EMU program as well as various small projects. This term we are working on launching a new website for another EMU program. My contribution to the effort is as the data entrant. Which means I get to wade through a large amount of information and imput it into the darabase in a method similar to blogging. Its tedious and yet really interesting and satisfying because without my work there would be no content on the page when it goes live. Granted, a monkey could do data entry, but it keeps me occupied and I’m learning alot about the program that we’re creating the site for. Its a very cool thing with a very complicated series of databases because the information is super varied. It makes me remember how much I really love my job.