Wait. There's More?

I knew what I would do for the day upon entering the Archives on Wednesday. It would be simple. Repetitive, but simple. Electronic cataloging is not that much different than the regular kind, albeit without any sort of interaction with anything outside of the data. I was having an easy time with inputting the same data that I recorded earlier during my time at the Archives. After finishing the last page of the database, I was given a review sheet that showed all of the pieces that the artist gave to the archives. Looking at the paper, I noticed that there were three items that I neglected to catalog. The sheet said they were three books, so I thought this correction would be quick, an hour at most. In hindsight I can definitely say that I was hideously wrong. It was almost time for me to leave when I went to the warehouse in order to find these books. I would start the work the next day. At the artist’s storage bin, I noticed that under the unframed pieces on the lower shelf were indeed these three books. I originally thought them to be guides, or something else of the sort. In actuality, these were really not books, but very large binders for display purposes. Opening them, I saw that each and every page of the binders held drawings or paintings on both sides, totaling about fifty works per binder. In disbelief, I mumbled, “Aw crap!” I am far from being over with the archiving. The twenty four pieces I catalogued? A mere warm up compared to the one hundred and fifty I now have. Yeah, I’m going to be busy for a while.