I may or may not have mentioned, but the new job I started almost three months ago now is at the State Library of Victoria. I’m working as a collection officer, which means I’m the person who retrieves all the books requested from the stacks. It’s pretty much the perfect job for me — there’s lots of moving around so I’m not stuck at a desk all day; it’s in the city in a wonderful building; the work is methodical, indulging my anal-retentiveness and slight OCD tendencies; it’s a relatively simple job that doesn’t drain my creativity (like my old job in advertising did); I no longer have to sign up people for store credit cards and my job security is not based on how much people spend; my boss is not evil.
And best of all, there’s the books. I love to read, but I also love books as physical objects. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, of course. So week 10 of twitter365 was dedicated to books — the ones I was reading, my favourites, the recipes I followed, the bookplates I started making… and the things that were unsorted have been resolved.
I have an idea for a book that I want to write. I’m about to start the research. I get the feeling that 2008* 2009 is my crop rotation year — where I stop focussing so much on visual artwork and pursue slightly different creative projects instead. It should be a fun ride.
*2009. 2009. 2009. Apparently I still don’t actually know what year it is.
