redrikki

This was was my first day back at the office since Christmas Eve. I woke up at 7:54 to discover that I had failed to set my alarm the night before. Luckily for me, I'd already made my lunch and normally leave myself an extra 30 minutes each morning to read. No reading this morning, obviously, but I was not late getting to the office.

Checking my AO3 in box, I found that one kind soul had read and commented on 15 of my stories across three different fandoms. I ask you, is there anything more gratifying as an author than a reader who found one thing they liked by you and then tracked down all the things? ::Happy noises::

Speaking of happy noises, I squealed like an excited dolphin when I found out I'd received the grant I'd applied for back in November. The museum I work for has a collection of oral histories of local Black community leaders recorded back in 1989. The problem is they're all on audio cassettes, some of which are basically unplayable today. With this grant from the local library council, we'll be able to digitize them and then share them on the web. I've also got some fun in-house programing planned for them, including a listening and discussion event with the local NAACP sometime this spring.