My experience in the archives has been pretty limited, but I did find that the workers there are extremely friendly.  They are not scary in the least, so if anyone is feeling anxious about going because they think they will look like a turd, no worries!
I went in on Friday after my conference with Ms. Hurley and tried to reserve some stuff for Monday, but turns out you are supposed to do that online...but I can't figure out how to do so, so if anyone has helpful suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
I do not know for sure what I am going to do yet for my paper, but hopefully after looking at some stuff tomorrow I'll have a pretty good idea! I feel slightly overwhelmed and confused about how this is all supposed to work, but I'm really hoping that once I decide on what I am actually going to write about I will have a calmness come over me...if that does not happen I'm not really sure what I'm going do, because I'm pretty sure my stress level has already exceeded a healthy amount!!
I think I'm just going to keep my hopes up for the nice people in the archives to really help me through this..I'm also planning to pretty much move into the archives until this is done..anyone with me?!?