march 2--I'm right here

[zyzyly]

First thing--I slept like a baby last night. :)

Today was test day for the students. We test over in one of the computer labs in the business building because the allied health computer lab is tiny and doesn't have enough computers. I run the tests now, and I like doing it. This is my chance to figure out the names of the students who aren't in my clinical group as they turn in their scratch paper with their name on it. Some end up standing out anyway, but some of them remain somewhat anonymous throughout the semester. It takes me a while to remember names.



The pencil sharpener in the computer lab. I guess it was having an identity crisis.

After the test I wandered over to the librarian to talk to the archivist. She is way op on the third floor, all the way in the back. She has a room filled with stuff from the old days--old pictures, an old nursing uniform, old yearbooks, etc... The doors into this room are the entry doors from the old library, which was still standing when I was a student here. I loved that library. It was dark wood and brick, with high windows and huge wooden bookcases. They tore it down because it was way to small to accommodate everything the library, or learning resource center is now.

I went to talk to the archivist about the time capsules we will be opening next year for the college centennial. I have been appointed the time capsule team leader, which I think is way cool. I love that kind of stuff. I asked the archivist to be on the team, since she will likely be the one who ends up with the stuff in the three capsules we will be opening. We were speculating on what is inside of them, and what shape it will be in when we open them. Time will tell.

We will also be planting a new time capsule, so we are talking a little about what to put in it. I think it will end up being some sort of school contest. No matter what anyone else decides, I'm slipping a photograph of Mook in. I've already decided that as the time capsule team leader.



What would you put in a time capsule that would describe the times we live in?

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[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Cellphone (I'm not sure how useful that would be), newspapers, as they'll be an odd anomaly, maybe some engine oil, as again that'll just be weird. A quadcopter.

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

Sacramento City College? I *think* that was where we saw Dr. John in concert about 2 years ago...? (Time has gone by and actually I can't remember, but it was a college of some sort in Sac.)

Time capsule? Hmmm.... paper money, an iPod, Radio Shack advertisement, antibiotic ointment, birth control patch.

[duccio.livejournal.com]

A letter and photograph to all the current and future students from the namesake of Obamacare, who brought affordable healthcare to millions. I'm sure he'd send you one - get on it so it's ready for the sealing-up.

[howeird]

"slept like a baby".
When a company I was working for was finalizing a round of funding, one of the bankers gave a talk on the financial process. He started by saying "Investors sleep like babies - every 2 hours they wake up screaming."
:-)

What to put in the time capsule:
Currently used syringes & pen needles. In 10 years I think mine have evolved four times.
A class photo
A scrapbook of photos of the school including classes & rounds. A CD/DVD with that content (which may or may not be readable when the time comes)
Web page print-out of 2016 primary results
An unidentified body part in a jar of formaldehyde.

[beefi-xxx.livejournal.com]

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

A cell phone would be one thing.

[vereorc.livejournal.com]

When I was about nine I was selected to represent our city's school system to pick what would go in time capsules to be opened in 1, 5, 10, and 25 years.

How long will it be before this next one is opened?

[lydamorehouse]

It's interesting that, fairly unanimously, people have suggested cell phones, when I think, in fact, we all kind of mean: the Internet.

Only, there's no real way to put Twitter, for instance, into a time capsule. I almost wonder if it would be interesting to take a screen shot of several of the various popular social media sites and print them out, so the people of the future can see a flame war erupting on Facebook, or a collection of Donald Trump's tweets.

A copy of the New York Times (or just its front section) might be interesting, since, invariably, at the moment, it will be about the presidential race in one way or the other.

Is there something that represents hipster culture? A Bud Light? Fancy coffee? (I honestly have no idea, but it might be something else to consider.)

Do you have materials regarding #BlackLivesMatter protests at your school? Because that's something else that I think is really defining us, currently.

(sorry, I previously posted this as a reply to someone else's comment. I have a sticky trackpad!)

[thoughtsbykat.livejournal.com]

How cool you get to open a time capsule this year. Many of the comments said a cell phone which I agree with. A Gopro camera, screenshots of social media and a Forever stamp. A lump of coal too.

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

Any chance of slipping in an editorial critical of Trump's rise to prominence in the campaign? With luck it will just be an odd footnote to this election.