#gradblrchallenge Day One...
... did not quite go as planned. I got derailed by a lunch meeting that went long, and then a community lecture that I’m giving on Thursday that I just realized I have to actually write before then, and then making dinner, and then I gave up on attempting productivity and started watching episodes of Who Do You Think You Are on YouTube (it’s educational, I argue, because it’s public history, so it’s basically just professional development).
But tomorrow! Tomorrow I will begin... I would like to start re-outlining my chapter about the Jewish printing industry in North Africa to include a new focus on ephemera, based on some of the material I found in the archives last month. And actually organizing my photos would be helpful. And I would like to make notes on two articles that I skimmed and thought would be useful, but will likely forget if I don’t write it down... Panicking about how my advisor hasn’t responded to the initial report I sent a week ago isn’t on the official agenda, but I’m sure I can squeeze that in.
Image: announcements from the Moroccan newspaper Al-Moghreb Al-Aksa, 1883. The Judeo-Spanish advertisement reads:
Announcement! For letters of exchange, bills, accounts, circulars, stamped paper and envelopes, cards, invitations, programmes, and every kind of printing job with Hebrew type: the Abrines press, Tangiers.