Troubles with Apple

I just got my third iPod Touch. I bought one of the 1stgen iPod Touches with my Macbook in August 2008, and since then have had two, cryptic, massive failures out of the blue. So after trekking out to Ardmore (a 2 hour trip) for the second time in the past 4 months, I have [...]

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Windows 7

I took advantage of that awesome Windows 7 discount for students ($30 for Home Premium or Professional!), as I have to use Windows for certain classes, and my copy of XP was horribly buggy. However, while that $30 price was very sweet, it took me a full 24 hours to get it up, running, and [...]

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Berlioz and Saint-Saëns

The Philadelphia Orchestra is starting up again after the summer break, and once again I’m glad to be part of the eZseatU program ($25 for a full year of free concerts). My first experience with Berlioz was to see Faust, which was good but I hadn’t been so enthralled that I went out and got [...]

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Really Big Manuscripts

Probably not going to be a reality show at any point, but there are a lot of Really Big Manuscripts out there which one normally doesn’t get to see. One notorious breed of super huge manuscripts are what my coworker refers to as “Filzas,” or large books of Italian accounts and legal documents from the [...]

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Vernon, NJ

I took a vacation for about 10 days in northern New Jersey, in a small town called Vernon.
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I was charged with caring for: two rats, three cats, a small pond of fish, a deer and her two fauns, two squirrels, and two finches. Located in the middle of the mountains, it rained once [...]

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Macabre Manuscripts

One of my projects this summer was to examine some “hybrid books” (a printed book with some manuscript – handwritten – sections) and describe the manuscript portions. Most/all of these can’t even be found in any kind of online catalog, only in the card catalog in the Rare Book room, and even they will only [...]

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New semester

I see that I have inadvertently taken a summer vacation from the blog. My apologies, classes got the best of me and then I moved to a new place around Society Hill and have spent the rest of the summer reading and catsitting in exotic locales (like New Jersey).
I did, however, get to deal with [...]

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Four Concerts & New Classes

Back in Philadelphia, which is quickly vaulting itself into Spring (with some crazy thunderstorms – hail!), and classes have started once more. This quarter looks promising – I was unsure at first whether or not Cataloging would be for me, but the kind of cataloging I do is so different from normal cataloging that I [...]

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In Which I Eat Pastries & Drink Tea

Currently in San Francisco, making everyone jealous. Managed to sleep a good 11 hours last night – I woke up at 3 am yesterday to catch a 6 am flight here, and woke up at 7. Walked down to the Thorough Bread & Pastry bakery, which has really, really, quality pastries. Not overly yuppified, just [...]

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Dvorák and Friends

This afternoon I attended my second concert using the EzSeatU program (see previous post). Due to the lack of people at the last concert, I did not hurry to get to the concert far ahead of time. And so I was surprised to see at least 40 students waiting to be seated with the program. [...]

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