Boring Skies

Last Thursday was, unfortunately, an incredibly boring day. For the entire morning, my fellow volunteers and I sat in on a presentation on the geology of Stebbin’s Gulch in Holden Arboretum. Yes, this is completely unrelated to astronomy – we were only there because Mr. Simpson, the observatory coordinator, is a member of NOGS (Northern Ohio Geological Society) and invited all the astronomy volunteers to sit in on the presentation. Although amazingly soporific (I tried to stay awake – I really did – but the CMNH library is always so stuffy…), sitting in on Thursday’s presentation did give me a glimpse of what I have to look forward to as a scientist – i.e., increased specialization in a field, not endless boring meetings (although I’m sure I’ll have to sit through those too). Hopefully I’ll be able to find something that interests me.

The rest of the day was rather uneventful; in the afternoon, we simply continued with sorting the slides. We’re finally starting to get a good organization system down for the slides – we now have tabs in a file cabinet with different categories for each set of slides. All in all, although a boring day, Thursday was rather productive, at least in terms of the slides.