The Museum

This is the third summer I have been lucky enough to get a short-term job at the museum. I like this job because it's relaxed, I have an electric fan, and it's indoors. I also get to see a number of really interesting and unique individuals each year.

The museum in itself is a very beautiful building, built in the late 1800's, and contains loads of interesting things, like birds and a lion and china from China.

It takes about an hour to get there by bus, because of the people making the bus schedules are morons. If I had a car, I could get there in 20-30 minutes, depending on traffic.

Usually, I bring a book or a sketch pad to the museum. This place doesn't get many visitors and if I didn't bring some form of entertainment I would be bored stiff. There are only so many things I can do to entertain myself (that wouldn't land me in jail or get me fired) with what is available at the museum and I exhausted that list two years ago.

On the list of interesting individuals I have met are

- The Close Talking Trubadour Nerd
- The Boy Who Was Glad We Don't Have Camels
- The Man Who Doesn't Like The Exhibits (but shows up anyway)
- The Couple That Finds Stuffed Birds Disgusting (yet visits the museum anyway)
- The Walking Dead Man
- The Professors (three of them, at different times, lecturing me on the history of the museum)
- The Little Lady Who Only Uses The Restroom (then leaves)

All of these have different habits and ticks that I have icked up, yet most people follow two very specific types - those who always go to the restroom first and those who always go upstairs first.

I love my job at the museum and I'm looking forward to what people can come up with next year.

PS. People need to learn how to read. And stop moving the merchandise around. You are in a gift shop, not The Sims or Tetris.