It's All Coming Back To Me Now...

Knowledge.  If you don't use it, you lose it, right?  That's why the long division I became handy at in middle school I can barely make work on a calculator today.  There is just not a lot of call for complex equations in my life right now. 

But is it really gone forever, that stuff you learned once upon a time?  Or, is it just laying dormant, waiting for a little nudge of the toe?  What's in your head are just memories, really.  Memories pop up out of nowhere all of the time.  The senses are notorious for bringing stuff back from the ether of your past.  Fresh cut grass takes me back to summers as a kid.  I hear the Quantum Leap theme song and I'm back  in front of the TV, up way past my bedtime, hoping that Dr. Sam Beckett finally leaps home.

So, wouldn't it be the same for lessons learned in school?  Sure it would.  I read a poem by William Blake, and it's Senior English all over again. 

It has been nearly two years since I finished graduate school.  I've taken some continuing education in the meantime in the forms of conferences, but I haven't used that knowledge and it's showing.  Those theories and case studies are fading little by little.  It's worrisome.

Well, it was.  Then an institution to which I applied a couple of weeks ago did me a favor.  No, they haven't hired me.  They asked for more information about my education and experience.  This is a second step in the job hunt I haven't before taken, so that's awesome, but that isn't what makes their request so meaningful.  Because of that request, I had to look back at my reasons for choosing the archival field and the skills I developed in school.  I combed through pages of assignments and notes as I prepared my responses and you know what?  I remember!  I remember archival processing, cataloging, HTML coding, EAD, creating finding aids, reference, disaster planning, stuff.  Cooler, still?  The drive is still there.

Nice.

Month-In-Review: June

June.  Well.  What can I say?  There are 30 days in the month.  Summer officially started on the 21st.  It was hot.  It was, hmm...

• I lost 2 more pounds.  Since May 1st, that is 6 pounds for any one keeping track.  
• I have really been working on cardio endurance, and in June I burned 10,900 calories (because I like to know these things).
• I only applied to 8 jobs and not the usual 10.  I probably could have gotten in 10 apps, but I was feeling rebellious.  Probably why I haven't put more effort in to changing my approach, either.
• I can't stop watching Netflix Instant.  It's a disease.
• I finally cleaned out my sun room for the first time in ages and arranged my fitness equipment just so, lining up my dumbbells in a pretty row.  It tickles me.  
• God, I'm weird.

So, those are the mundane details of last month.  Word.