Since I don't have class on Tuesday or Thursday, not a whole lot happened today. This morning I went to my first research assistant session of 2013. I'm currently scheduled to work from 9 AM to noon on Tues/Thurs. I wasn't incredibly happy to find out that I couldn't sleep in on my "days off" but on the bright side, the morning work slot ensures that I get up and get my brain working so I can utilize the rest of my day.
Work was the same as always: hunt through books for the ever-elusive wampum. However, my efforts were complicated by a class using the room I usually work in from 9 AM to 10:30. Apparently they'll be here every day I'm in so this could become a problem. With the conference room occupied, I just had to sit awkwardly in a chair in the middle of the history office. I think I encountered every member of the department while I sat there.
This afternoon I got to Skype with Jessie for the first time since I've been back at school. Skyping was happy even though it was not working super well some of the time. I started to grumble about it being wonky, but then I realized how much of a First World it is to complain that your method for free, face-to-face conversations across continents is slightly less instantaneous and clear than you'd like it to be.
Skype is a weird thing. On one hand it makes you feel closer to someone far away because you can see and hear her, but on the other it feels as if you are cut off from her in a way that you weren't before the conversation started. Being half-way to the real thing is sometimes harder than having nothing at all. Not being with her is difficult, but it got worse when I got here and saw everyone else. It just feel like something is missing. Some unconscious part of me is still waiting for her to walk in, back from the library and needing a hug.
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