I’m Jessie.

I like to write, read, listen to NPR, check Twitter, take pictures for my 365 blog, work on quilt projects, plan and daydream about other quilts projects, help researchers find what they’re looking for at the National Archives, read magazines, collect too many magazines, reorganize my bookshelves, make the spaces in my apartment beautiful and comfortable, snuggle with my cat, and eat yummy food, oftentimes with my boyfriend or my brother (also my roommate) or both of them. I have a very long Amazon.com wish list and compulsively get half-way through really good books and stop there.

What do I do with my days?
Work at my two part-time jobs, one at the National Archives Atlanta branch, the other in the history department at Georgia State University. At one, I help researchers and play a small part in managing and keeping the historic government records. At the other, I organize and manage the study abroad program to Cuba, and also do fun things like make copies. Actually, I make a lot of copies at both of my jobs. I have wonderful jobs, and work with great people. (I’ve had bad jobs, so I appreciate the good ones all the more.)

I am also earning my master’s degree in public history, but I’ll be done very soon, at the end of April. Which means, part of my time is also spent revising a million versions of my resume and searching for full-time employment (read: health insurance).  I love school and really enjoy my classmates, the papers, the readings. But I am also so excited to be done. (I have a bachelor’s degree in history, I should say.)

And when I’m not doing those things?
I’m playing with my closet full of fabrics, watching Parks and Recreation, or snuggling with my cat. There’s a good chance I could be writing blogs and posting pictures. I could also be reading something or playing with my wonderful iPhone or pouring over everything on Design*Sponge.

Likes:
Scarves, notebooks, coffee, reading great blogs, getting new magazines in the mail, homemade smoothies, sugar cookies, Denyse Schmidt’s amazing talent and style, seeing movies in the movie theater, Twitter (have I said this?), getting school supplies, organized,  simple spaces (especially around my desk), hardwood floors, mid-century modern furniture, Design*Sponge, the National Geographic Society, traveling, Mexican food, thunderstorms, being around people that I love and enjoy.

Dislikes:
Valet parking, cleaning my apartment, overly large pickup trucks (the kind with two sets of wheels–I don’t understand the need), clumpy mascara, people who over-share their genealogical research (if another person tells me they were descended from a Mayflower passenger, I swear… by the way, why is that so special anyway? I’m descended from someone who came over on a boat, too. We should form a club. I personally do not care if you were the first person here or the last, so just stop trying to impress me with your difficult-to-prove clicking around on Ancestry.com.)