Jack of All Trades- James

Today, Christy, Margie, and I had a conversation about the design of spaces. I brought up Yi-Fu Tuan's book "Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience" (which may or may not be a book worth reading, I still haven't decided). Perception and design of space is something I'm pretty fascinated by, and I may return to the subject later in the summer, but what's relevant to what I want to talk about at the moment is the fact that "Space and Place" is the kind of book that, as Christy put it, "confuses librarians." I've found it slotted in psychology, philosophy, and geography. We both enjoy the fact that it confuses categorization.

I've found that my work with Know Your Farms defies categorization in the same way. In the space of one day, my job has gone from planting lima beans to doing web promotion for the camp. In the space of the last 8 days, my job has taken me to 2 states and at least 5 cities in NC. I've gone from helping cook dinner for 11 to trying my hand at html (the dinner turned out better than the code). While it's slightly frustrating for casual conversation, I like the fact that when people ask me what I'm doing for the summer I have to say "Well, I'm doing a lot of different things."