Everyone has their own way of killing time on the Internet. Mine is related to that ’satiable curiosity. It’s absurd. I don’t do games or timewasters and while I’ve done my share of watching laughing babies on YouTube, I don’t find multimedia such a temptation.
What gets me is just..well..have a look. A typical blog-post-writing session. Post is below.
First, there’s all the searches for hyperlinks on the Birmingham Museum of Art website and beyond, looking for information about the artists, suspecting there might be a Catholic sensibility in Viola’s work and wondering what his sense of spirituality might be, and researching that and finding various articles and reviews on that score and so o9n.
That’s just part of the job.
But then there’s this train:
Trying to figure out these Allen sisters.
Which leads to a link to this book on GoogleBooks: The Bryn Mawr College Calendar/Courses 1914 because one of the links led to a mention of a Bryn Mawr student “prepared” and the Margaret Allen School (the book contains not just courses, but students and their courses of study).
Which leads me to peruse the book and marvel at the range and depth of study (I shouldn’t have been surprised. Apologies to any Seven Sisters alumn out there) and ponder about what these women did with their education, which then led me to search for several of the graduate students with distinctive names.
Which led me to....
Do read the rest!
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