tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post4829067668120549730..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: The archival imperative, reduxFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-18351483569295099772011-05-17T17:35:30.266-04:002011-05-17T17:35:30.266-04:00Old TA assignments? Seriously? But...why? I'...Old TA assignments? Seriously? But...<i>why?</i> I'm solidly in favor of throwing out as much paper as you can get away with, and not letting the fading memories of this or that stay your hand. Granted, I don't know exactly what these memories of grad school are, but it's hard to imagine a parallel in my own life.<br /><br />On another note, I agree with G-Fav: your compulsive overachievement in your teens was awesome. Also kind of insane.Dr. Kosharyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777054788430587906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-11323452882725559352011-05-17T01:26:46.253-04:002011-05-17T01:26:46.253-04:00G-Fav:
Oh, you have no idea. I have assignments I...G-Fav:<br /><br />Oh, you have no idea. I have assignments I wrote on (fake) parchment paper, with a fountain pen, and hand-bound. I have assignments presented as newspaper front-page mock-ups. Going crazily over and above was apparently my M.O. from ages 12-15.<br /><br />Cactus:<br /><br />I could never do that, I'm afraid--not with letters and journals! I want the stationery, the stamps, the actual ink and texture. I'm a sucker for Benjaminian aura of the O.G. document.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-23176490651411493092011-05-16T14:58:18.887-04:002011-05-16T14:58:18.887-04:00I had two four drawer lateral cabinets. Evernote....I had two four drawer lateral cabinets. Evernote.com and Little tiny scanner (Canon P-150, I'm in love) and I have been cured. All correspondence from my entire life, bins of journals (Kinkos can cut the spines off)... I have been FREED and I didn't have to give up any of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-89285910932915075242011-05-15T06:31:52.688-04:002011-05-15T06:31:52.688-04:00This is awesome: "(I have no idea what the ac...This is awesome: "(I have no idea what the actual assignment was that inspired me to create a fake police case file, complete with hand-aged manila folder--but I'm pretty sure it didn't ask for <i>that</i>)."<br /><br />-gG-Favhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14474787912488750916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-29514750125033193292011-05-14T13:49:37.914-04:002011-05-14T13:49:37.914-04:00Andrea:
I think your growing-up-pre-internet theo...Andrea:<br /><br />I think your growing-up-pre-internet theory is exactly right. Looking at all those general-interest articles I'd so diligently saved, photocopied, and preserved was like trying, with great effort, to return to an earlier mindset: what was I <i>thinking</i>? I could find any of them again on the internet in five minutes!<br /><br />And I REALLY like the idea of hoarding in the cloud. Maybe when the book is done I'll scan and upload all the articles and book chapters that I photocopied in the course of my research (many of which are not available electronically). I hate the idea of not having access to them, but they take up a ton of space and aren't anything I'll need regularly.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-81429651722008456072011-05-14T10:14:43.554-04:002011-05-14T10:14:43.554-04:00I have been doing the same thing to my work office...I have been doing the same thing to my work office. I think part of that urge was growing up pre-internet. If you didn't save an article, you were never going to see it again. I was able to get rid of alot by reminding myself that I could find it online. But what really helped? Scanning. I know I don't really need the grade sheets of students in my class 10 years ago at a different university but.....So I scaned anythinglike that and stored it in dropbox. Now my files contain only active materials but I still have all of that "Just can't quite let it go stuff." Hoarding in the cloud is awesome!Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622350001179389541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-38679989747121232602011-05-13T23:49:40.405-04:002011-05-13T23:49:40.405-04:00Keep it! Keep everything!!!!!
Why no, I'm no...Keep it! Keep everything!!!!! <br /><br />Why no, I'm not a hoarder. I think.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-67870543029935579972011-05-13T19:37:53.994-04:002011-05-13T19:37:53.994-04:00NK:
It's a funny thing, because I'm gener...NK:<br /><br />It's a funny thing, because I'm generally really good at throwing stuff away, and doing so gives me a great sense of satisfaction. Lots of the paper I got rid of was easy--I didn't have to think twice about throwing out most of my undergraduate notebooks (though I kept a few, and all my major papers). I really do have a rage for order. <br /><br />But there are others things I'm mysteriously attached to, and it's more true of paper than of physical objects (that is, if I haven't worn a shirt in three years, there's no chance I'd feel I should keep it around "just in case"). But those almost-form letters from my graduate department telling me I'd passed my orals, or had my diss prospectus approved, or been recommended for the PhD? Those I feel I need.<br /><br />Luckily, I guess, the things I'm sentimental about take up less space than clothes, kitchenware, or tchotkes.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-5663846999265105282011-05-13T19:25:47.328-04:002011-05-13T19:25:47.328-04:00Okay, I find this kind of funny, because I am pack...Okay, I find this kind of funny, because I am packing my apartment now, too (we've only lived here three years), and I am DELIGHTED every time I can pitch a piece of paper. I keep asking NLLDH, "Do you need this?" in the hopes that I can ditch something else. I have kept some notes/cards from my aunt who passed away a year and a half ago. But I shred everything else. I just threw out a notebook's worth of medieval research notes dating from 2004-2007; I threw out all the acceptance letters from law schools I didn't attend. <br /><br />I think it's just that I'm lazy; every piece of paper I can throw away is a piece of paper that doesn't have to get packed, moved, and unpacked later!New Kid on the Hallwayhttp://newkidonthehallway.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com