Professional development 101 in 1001 Start 12/31/085/101

• /FINISH THE DISSERTATION
• /Go back to France
• Create advertising postcards for archeobotany work
• Print/send advertising postcards
• /Get appointed an adjunct in RLA
• Finish botanical illustration courses (Watercolor I,II,III and Pen and Ink left...)
• Draw/paint at least once a week (1/143)
• Check out landscape architecture program at Athens, GA (and have a nice trip with the hubby there)
• Check out the landscape architecture program at NC state (visit, etc.)
• Learn to use R
• Get Bois/Vinges article finished with Elizabeth
• Get chapter for Historical Ecology book finished
• Work on French Proj. GIS
• Learn to use Grass (or some other shareware GIS package)
• Organize all article pdfs on my harddrive
• Check out online language learning programs and review my French with one, at least once a week for twenty weeks (0/20)
• Make a professional webpage with reports, CV, etc.
• /Give a talk based on my dissertation in the department
• Join LinkedIn
• See when next IWGP meeting is, submit a paper topic, attend and give paper
• Get a good SE US data set to write a paper based on
• Present a paper at SEAC
• Get SE US paper published
• Get a better understanding of SE US archeology chronology, read 5 good books/articles which provide broad overviews
• Collect as many articles regarding Cherokee archeobotany as possible
• Interview a landscape architect (at least one…)
• Make a short list of publications of landscape architecture faculty at NC state and read them
• Make a short list of publications of landscape architecture faculty at GA- Athens and read them
• Visit Niche Gardens and drop off resume
• Contact Caterpillar Landscape Architects and see if they have internships
• Find other local landscape architecture firms and see if they have internships
• See if RTI or Intrahealth has research positions open and if so apply
• Write an article decrying the unfortunate and disrespectful Af Am monument on UNC-CH campus (need to find artist- interview? Who picked this thing?)
• Sort through boxes of articles and discard ones that I have a PDF of/those which are no longer relevant
• Make sure I have copies or reference of old student reviews from my classes – if not see if they are still on file (not that this will help much… sigh)
• Write an article regarding the need to preserve campus landscape features, interview committee which has been ignored
• See if Botanical Garden has jobs, apply
• Volunteer at Botanical Garden?
• /Make a “teaching resume”
• Make a “retail resume” for bookstore jobs
• Make a “retail resume” for plant related jobs
• Make a “archeology resume” for CRM work (well- update my CV)
• Make a “landscape architecture resume” for internship applications
• See if Natural History Museum has jobs, apply (check every 6 months)
• Start building p-bot seed reference collection
• Get some seed books (Martin and Barkley!)
• Price out scope, lights, screens, scale to start own lab
• Organize all of my books
• /Go to Ethnobiology meetings, present a paper (finished April 2009)
• Make a list of publications that would be good to submit diss based papers to
• Write one article based on dissertation, get it published
• Investigate post-docs at Smithsonian
• Brainstorm ideas for and research “virtual landscapes” paper (discussing video game landscapes)
• Brainstorm ideas for and research “Ren Fest cultural geography” paper
• Email Kandi and Amber my dissertation and see if they have job leads
• Email Wiethold and Laura Motta my dissertation (if I feel confident about it…)
• Get bound copies made of my dissertation
• /Inform U of MN Anthro that I got a PhD for their newsletter
• Get a copy of EndNote and start using it
• Make sure all relevant Dardon files are .pdfs
• Re-visit millet question in dissertation data
• Analyze remaining “feature” samples
• See if the large grain sample can be placed… uff da
• Bother Carole to see how ceramic analysis is going, get email translated to analyst
• Upload all Dardon files/my dissertation to the wiki site (need to get password again)
• Photograph Dardon sample grains?
• Get Dardon samples inventoried and boxes labeled, and moved into semi-permanent storage
• /Finish the two TRC reports I have going
• Portfolio project: finish sewing two self-designed things and take pictures
• Portfolio project: finish a nice mini-garden and take pictures of it
• Portfolio project: finish one really polished drawing (hickory nuts?)
• Portfolio project: finish one really nice water color/mixed media pic (horsetails on pink background?)
• Portfolio project: keep taking photos, and every 6 months separate the best ones, print some out
• Email: David, Julian, Ian
• Arrange for David to visit and give a talk
• Work on pollution as an aesthetic problem paper