I didn’t realize commuting would be such a struggle. I needed to get to work at 9 and it’s about a 30 minute drive from my house to Durham so I left around 8:10 am. I got to the museum at 9:15 am. It took me an hour! I went to the main staff meeting which was very interesting and made me want to go to more. I came in late and was already nervous. I awkwardly was introduced during a “what does this month look like” circle. It was a little mortifying being put on the spot in front of very passionate, intelligent, and hardworking individuals who are all much older than me. Then I worked on the Education budget’s excel spreadsheet for quite some time managing random things and writing comments on certain allocations of money. At 2:00 pm is another meeting for just the Education branch and I’m excited for that. I’ve already met a lot of people who do a lot of different things and it’s making me think about the future. The head curator seems to travel all the time which is a job I’d probably want. The person in charge of organizing how the art is curated and organized actually builds models of the rooms and hangs up tiny versions of the paintings where he thinks they should go. It was very cool. I think that the next meeting will be even a deeper look in.