i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
i'm at the getty research institute and i'm in -loooooooooove!- i'm officially a stack reader now, which means i can come and go through special collections as i please. i have a little shelf space reserved for me, even! the very first thing i opened was the scroll and it was like christmas -- it takes up most of the verrry long table just to unroll a little of it, and then you have to roll up one end and unroll more to continue.
this is one of those things where i keep wanting to say, "what was i thinking? why didn't i come here sooner?" but i think it's better to have come late than never come at all. it might even have been worth the 2.45 hour drive through morning traffic. we'll see if i still believe that when i drive home through the same traffic. :)