Tuesday was an eventful day. I spent my day doing TMS work and imputing data. At lunch we began to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still. After work I went out and socialized and networked with some curators. When us four interns got to Kelly's the pub we sat inside at a table and saved spots for the curators. Only one curator, David, came and sat with us. However, it was a lot of fun and he gave us a fair amount of tips and things to research. I learned that I should by a book called Mapping Mars, that if I want to study/work with Medieval Astronomy I should look into Oxford and at Holland. I figured out that maybe it wouldn't be the best to pursue and Master's in Museum Studies. It might be better to do a Master's in History. It really confused me. Now I don't know what I want to do! If I do a MA what do I write my thesis on? Medieval Scottish history? British Empire/Commonwealth and their exhibitions? Medieval Astronomy? I'm now more confused then ever!
Wednesday I went to work and my supervisor and I went and picked up more files of boxes for me to go through. The rest of my work day was spent finishing up my other set of boxes and then starting my new ones. For lunch I went out to the food trucks and I bought a grilled cheese that had mozzarella , basil, tomato and balsamic vinegar on it along with a sweet lemonade to drink. It was delicious and I'll definitely be making that at home! After work I met up with Erin and we headed over to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. That place is humongous! It's actually two museums in the same building, but still! The other museum in that building is the Smithsonian American Museum of Art.We spent and hour and a half in there and only got through half of the first floor! We're definitely going back there multiple times after work in order to attempt to finish the Museums. After we were both craving french fries so we went across the street to the Shake Shack and got regular fries and cheese fries to share. We also each got a blueberry lemonade which was tasty and I'm going to try to learn how to make that! The cheese fries were a little odd and Erin and I both agreed we felt a little ill after eating them.
Thursday wasn't every exciting. I spent my day at work going through boxes of files. I got through one and a half boxes by the end of the day.That night I went back to my living quarters and did three loads of laundry! I had to pretty much wash all my clothes! It also took so many loads because we have a small washer and dryer here.
Friday I went through two more boxes. Both Brigid and I got really bored part way through the day so we decided to make a card for Mama Casey, Daniel's mom (a fellow space history intern), because she was having us over for supper that evening. We also made a card for the Space History Department. We didn't have any of the necessities in our offices, so we snuck down to the Education Department and borrowed some paper, pencil crayons and come paper shaped like space objects. We felt very sneaky and stealthy even though we weren't. We ended up making what we thought we awesome cards. When we gave Mama Casey her's she really liked it. We headed over to Daniel's house after work. Daniel, Brigid, Owen and I met up with Brian at the last stop on the orange Metro line, Vienna, and we got a lift to Daniel's house with his father. Lucy and Chelsey, who are other interns from different departments, then joined us at Daniel's house. I ate so much that night that I wasn't hungry the next morning! Mama Casey had made us seven layer dip and guacamole for appetizers. For supper we had fajitas and salad. Then for desert we had homemade ice cream cake and s'more bars. I was on such a sugar rush after! After supper we all headed into Daniel's basement and chatted until 11:30pm. We finally headed out because it was decided that if they didn't get me on the Metro soon I was not going to get home safely I was so sleepy and I had crashed so hard after my sugar rush. It was so bad that they made sure someone was going in the same direction as me so that I would get off at the correct stop. However there was no need to worry! The sugar rush re-surged just long enough for me to return home! I finally got to sleep about 2am and I didn't get up Saturday until about 9:30 I was so tired.
Keep that sugar flowing, you're gonna need the energy.
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