#hapo's workventures

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i gathered the guts to volunteer doing an art piece for the window in our exhibition but my boss wants to make Stupid Changes and im so mad about it that i woke up three times in the middle of the night fuming and now I have a headache over it from thinking about it so much sob sob sob

#i'm not a graphic designer but i think i know what im doing sir #i am the only person on this team trying to look at this holistically #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #hapo rants #hapo's workventures

[allbeendonebefore]

i really really want to be home and sleep in my own bed and do my little edmonton things and stuff but also tabling for work is starting up again and im like myyyrrrhhgh the idea of going to the science centre for the adult night within a week of my return just makes me So Tired in my SOUL

#its on like The Science of Sex tm so like #im already tired based on it being late and people drinking and probably having to yell over music #and undoubtedly they always seem to schedule these things like #for the exact time of the month that my body is going to knock me out #also i know theres the oh Hahaha Pride is Every Month :) #but also pride is literally every month now it seems and im so tired #like march?? macewan has their pride week in march??? #i get it because its during the semester but also the gays are sleeping ok #the gays need time to do this research first ok #also 2 ace 4 this im so eepy #personal hapo #hapo's workventures #i joke that oh haha im not a real adult but sometimes i really Do Not Vibe #Adult ALWAYS means drunk sexy people at these events and loud music and my bedtime is before 10 ok #i should respond to this email #ohhh hahaha its a little short notice for me i have to by groceries and eat them hahaaa

[allbeendonebefore]

i'm about to riot, proquest ERASED all of the notes i was keeping on the zillions of articles saved to MyResearch so i have no idea where to find things anymore I CAN't WORK IN THESE CONDITIONS!!

#oh academia #hapo rants #hapo rambles #hapo's workventures #hapo reads queer history

[allbeendonebefore]

so there's controversy in 1990 because the mayor refused to wear the ceremonial beaver pelt/mayoral chain, which i get although I know the pelt is still in use since I've seen it

BUT she also refused to wield the SWORD. we have a MAYORAL SWORD?!?!?

#hapo reads canadian history #hapo rambles #hapo's workventures

[allbeendonebefore]

something i like about reading newspapers from the 80s is how there's much more art in them. Like, ads for salad dressing or furniture will be full watercolours, even truck ads will have an illustration with a couple of headshots cropped in and inserted behind the windshield. The weather is accompanied with a drawing of a little happy sun or a sad rain drop. Columnists will occasionally have little sketches of their faces. It's just nice and something that no longer happens at all, really.

#hapo rambles #hapo's workventures

[allbeendonebefore]

[doing historical newspaper research]

[sneezes while hitting next page]

proquest: UM??? WHO ARE YOU? I'M PRETTY SURE THIS ISNT YOUR SESSION..... MAYBE YOU SHOULD START OVER FROM THE BEGINNING, WHOEVER YOU ARE

me: .......

proquest: QUICK, TELL ME HOW MANY OF THESE ARE BRIDGES OR ELSE!!

#hapo rambles #oh academia #hapo's workventures

[allbeendonebefore]

me once again giving a lecture to a group of humans today: [pensively rubs the protective amulet from the childrens section of the museum gift shop]

#hapo's workventures #why do i keep doing this to myself wHY #also its snowing and snowing sob

[allbeendonebefore]

one of the more frustrating things about working on google docs for work is that there is no option for canadian spellcheck at all and either i have to accept the default american spellcheck underlining half the words because how dare I put a u there, or making the poor UK spellcheck throw a fit every time I use a "z" where it wants an s (so, for an academic text that likes to abuse words that end in -ation, a Lot), I just cannot win.

#canadian press is a real standard that actually exists #so let me live in peace please and thank you my God #hapo rambles #hapo's workventures #and so i have to go through with a fine toothed comb to catch anything that was NOT underlined #or at least paste it into a real Word doc anyway sigh

[allbeendonebefore]

ive been panicking about having this presentation ready to roll in two weeks and who's available and who wants to help out and now it looks EXTREMELY LIKELY the city is going on strike monday so... uh... it might not be happening...................aaaaaaaaaaaaa

#hapo rambles #hapo's workventures #WELL BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD #and i mean talk aside idk if the actual EXHIBITION will go ahead or not but obviously we still want to make a Finished Thing regardless so

[allbeendonebefore]

me mentally eating popcorn and yelling "OHHHHH!" like a goal was just scored every time Ontarian instructor says "shed-ule"

#YOU SAID THE THING!! #same vibe as hearing saskies saying bunnyhug #or british columbians saying skookum #idk what i say that would make people go AH #give 'er? #i dont say ginch or gonch naturally #and im Not from yeehaw yahoo territory so dont even start #hapo's workventures

[allbeendonebefore]

work today feels like me (classicist) walking into a room full of historians (who aren’t even looking at me) and saying “DID YOU GUYS KNOW YOU CAN LOOK UP NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON PROQUEST?! TECHNOLOGY IS AMAZING!” and they ask if i’m okay but i’m just crying because primary sources are so so precious cherish them always it’s fine i’m going to be fine

#hapo rambles #hapo's workventures #HA to think i was going to embarrass myself by asking my boss where he got the newsclippings

[allbeendonebefore]

absolutely suffering reading about the mall rats in wem in the early 90s like sleeping in the maintenance area under the mindbender must be the most haunted place in there

#also unfortunately today i learned of the phase iii mattress hghruhghgurh #i need a shower #hapo reads canadian history #hapo's workventures

[allbeendonebefore]

going through that existential crisis again where its like i like what i’m doing i am enjoying the research i feel like i’m making a difference but i’m also so so tired of pride parties like. they’re great, i’m glad people are coming, i’m glad they’re having fun but i would like to not have to shout over music at mildly tipsy people at a pride event does that make sense i am just not a party gay and i’m finding it grating and then i feel bad for feeling bad about it

#it's unfortunate that we don't do walking tours in the winter but uh #i guess the reasons are obvious #hapo rambles #personal hapo #hapo's workventures #we are having pride events in august this year for a number of reasons #so pride has been dragging on all summer and i am ready to hibernate #where do the introverted winter gays go huh #also feeling pressured because we have an opportunity do do something that ISN't a concert or drag brunch #and im just like bluescreen mind blank at the moment

[allbeendonebefore]

i have the honour and privilege to help organize all these donations and info provided by very well known and famous locals in the community who will remain nameless

because they just throw in a bunch of unlabelled photos in a google drive and call it a day and im like i am Very Glad that you and my boss all know what these things are but now i have to go in and create a google doc guide to what the hell IMG_1234.jpg might be for me and my gaggle of 20-somethings who are eager to help but aren't old enough to remember the first starbucks in town opening or when smoking indoors was still a thing because who else is going to do it??? sob sob sob

#im old enough to remember both of those things #but i am not old enough to remember Being an Adult at that time #so i am going through and squinting trying to piece together what I can and then make passive aggressive WHAT DATE IS THIS WHAT PLAY notes #even though some of them are like within the last decade or so I WASNT THERE YOU HAVE TO TELL ME!! #hapo's workventures #hapo reads queer history #me at the y2k party like oh i love this song! #and my colleague not knowing it and just responding Well I'm 23 #me shattering into 1000 pieces of glass

[allbeendonebefore]

im like 20 pages away from finishing this 200+ doc that is depressing af and i have reached the point where if i try to relax by watching my silly star wars show i start projecting everything i read on it and frankly, brain, HELLO?????

#tomorrow i will go back to editing i promise #after my grocery run and cooking spree anyway #get annoyed because i see the sw dudebros go like wow this character is the most oc ever derogatory #and im like yeah i bet they would hate my take about interpreting her with a queer lens sooooooooooo badly hehe #hapo's workventures

[allbeendonebefore]

on the one hand i am really excited about this exhibition (and you should definitely come see it if you are in edmonton between june 1st and whenever the hell in september! even if its shit!!) and on the other im just overwhelmed with all the stuff thats left out. the scope creep is so real and im already just sitting here like, slapping myself and going "okay, focus on what we already have up on the website, the point of this is to drive traffic there for the people who really want to learn more"

and like, yknow, i worry about the bigots and the homophobes and even the well meaning folks coming away with the wrong message but i think. i have to think about the closeted queer person whos thinking about leaving the province and saying, hey you, look at this, this is going to happen wherever you go... but isnt it great that we live in a place where its So Shitty that people have been coming together in full force since 1981 to say Hell No? what better place is there to stand your ground and fight than here. stand with us. we've had your back this whole time.

#hapo rambles #hapo's workventures #im fine im ok im just getting emotional about this