Monday meme time!

[hellison]

Meh Monday. Had lovely weekend, with Katy-drinking and lie-ins and lots of family yesterday, but today my head hurts and I am tired so instead of content, you get a meme, nicked from helleboredoll who has hopefully spent most of the weekend stroking her hamsters...

Online journals are little filters that we each see every one else's lives through, the parts others choose to share with us. That said, we all think we are close, but really we seldom know *a lot* about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.



Also physio starts today. Which is not at ALL making me nervous and convinced they will tell me I should have been walking months ago and I'm not broken, just lazy. At all. Much. Anyway. MEME.

Update! Physio lady was v. nice and said that v. tight calf muscles aside, my ankle was actually doing better than she'd expected and thus no more
a. hopping or
b. roboboot
but instead lots of achy stretchings and putting of heel to ground. Back next week for more!

Comments

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

What's your job?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

My official title is 'data co-ordinator' these days, I think, which doesn't sound very archaeological at all.

Basically, it is my job to keep the Sites and Monuments Record for NI current and corret (as far as possible ;p) which mosly involves adding any new sites to the record, updating information on individual sites and making sure that the paper record (files, maps, photos) and the electronic records (database, GIS) match each other.
Mostly, I take reports sent in by archaeologists, convert them to something anyone could (hopefully!) understand and condense them to a nice concise paragraph.

I'm also in charge of updating other govt. agencies, especially planners, with our data. And also pretty much anyone who asks.

For the last while I've been at home ploughing through a backlog of over 700 excavation and monitoring reports from various commercial archaeological companies and writing precis/summaries for them, to be copied into the database when I'm back in the office.

A searchable (when it's working) version of my lovely database is available online, via the sadly not so lovely EHS website (which is a mess tbh), here (http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/other-index/content-databases/content-databases-nismr.htm)