Two years later I was working on a product called Culture Waves for Noble in Springfield. I got the job by pointing out their offices looked like the inside of my head. All surfaces were magnetic and dry erase and all around, culture was being knitted into insight. I spent a year writing, editing, and trying to manage a complex data mining technology engine in a world of constant layoffs and dwindling resources. When I finally got the ax, the day my daughter was born, they were the size they had been in 1998.
I spent a year freelancing and unemployed. Now I've spent another year retraining and retooling for public history. I want to make myself useful in and around the sciences, hopefully in a science museum or historic site. I'm a practicum away from graduation, deans list, and I managed to get a lot of paid and volunteer museum experience in the year.
This brings me back to Culture Foam. Now I have even more stray threads. I really admire what Suzanne Fischer has done at her Public Historian blog. Even sporadic and intermittent, her posts are always of interest. You can see her sweeping up the stray experiences of her field. That's my intention here.
-Sandy
