Great First Day

Today was an exhausting but wonderful day. It was my first day at my brand new job—a job that, when I read the job posting, seemed to be created specifically for me. I knew it was just the job I’d been hoping for and so I applied, interviewed and was offered the position last week. I immediately accepted. I’ve been daydreaming about working in museum education for quite a while, and this job is the perfect combination of the many things I did and enjoyed in college—informal science teaching, working with the public at museum events, scheduling presentations, training people to do them, etc. So now I get paid to do all these things. There are many, many things I will need to learn about my position, and I’m sure the job will evolve over time since it’s a brand new position that was created to help the person who will be my supervisor since she was completely overloaded. I know that she and I will work very well together, and the rest of the staff that I’ve met also seem very friendly and willing to help out.

I have a great feeling about this job and I’m incredibly excited about it. Oh, and the area where the education staff all have our desks has a fish tank as well as a couple of plastic tubs with aquatic plants and snails! I love it already. And I learned about trichobezoars—basically large hairballs. I got to see some rather huge ones (one was about 2 feet long and egg shaped, another smaller and almost perfectly round) that came from cows, as well as a postcard of one that came from a human girl. I hope I will continue to learn odd but interesting things like this. I’m also hoping that I might be able to claim a cow skull for my desk. It’s just sitting on a cabinet and no one seems to want it, so I’ll see if I can move it over to my area.

And now I really need some sleep so I can run around all day again tomorrow.