Plus, I guess this means it's time to start the job-search in earnest. Preliminary earnest, anyway, to see what's out there. I honestly don't know how many film archiving positions exist in the world, let alone in the Bay Area -- and of course it doesn't have to be film archiving, and I'm not going to narrow my job search to just that, but followin' that dream and all.
I did finish as many of that initial batch of ~80 films as I could -- about half, as it turns out, because the other half aren't actually on the shelf and/or don't even have a shelf number listed in the system -- and my supervisor has moved me onto a new batch. These seem to be more geared toward commercial and industrial use, rather than the primarily school-use films of the last batch, meaning there's been more of them that aren't actually on reels, presumably because of the expectation that more quote-professionals-unquote are going to be using them.
Nothing but tape and good wishes keeping the film from exploding and filling the room. Hasn't happened yet, though, and it won't, at least not on my watch.
