I can't believe I'm coming into my final week with the planetarium! I'm going to miss all the folks I've met here. Lalapalooza started this week and of course its happening near the Adler, causing hella traffic and making the day really long.This week my supervisor taught me how to use the office scanner to then input its metadata. The process was really easy to grasp, the hardest part was slowing myself down--I'm not sure if I mentioned in my other blogs, but the collections office is always below 50 degrees and once I get the hang of something I speed up to make myself warm from even simple body movements.
By the end of the week, everything felt like a routine. In all the places I've ever worked or volunteered I feel like my job description would change at a second's notice, but this week I got the chance to live a different type of job experience. Though it needs less creativity, archiving through the Minisis database requires more accuracy and focus.
On Thursday I accompanied my supervisors to a biweekly meeting with the various astronomers on the museum's campus. The meeting was basically catching up with each of the different projects occurring in the departments. Something that I noticed was that I heard these folks laughing before the meeting even began. It was nice to see the importance of a nice sense of humor. With the meeting as an example, this trait resulted in a more bonded group, providing the perfect platform to share each other's knowledge.In this meeting I heard about a project called the Adler Ice cream truck, where astronomers from different departments take the truck to parks and pass out free ice cream with a free ticket to the museum. I was really excited for this project because not only is it a unique form of outreach but it also really gets people motivated for astronomy.
Til next time,
Spooky Steph
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