Invocation of the Muse 101

Take 5: updated release of happenings and whereabouts of Jennifer J. Hill

Friday: June 13th Printed out posters on the Epson printer for 2 scientists; the objective was to print a copy of the poster to give to Christan Samper, the acting secretary for the Smithsonian as a gift to honor his service and commitment to encouraging and promoting the well being of the museum. The poster was an image of a new species of daisy that has been named after him. I discovered a printing tone difference cool vs. warm--the scientists chose warm tone and after 2 screw-ups via pshop and me the poster was printed successfully.

Then at around 4:30- 5:00 pm Don, Casey, and I headed to Pre-poets in the Botany lab with Barrett and friends; where we sampled beers from around the world and all over the US in beakers and had brie with bread and honey plus Chinese cracker cookies. Yummy! Then around 7:30 pm we all headed down to Poets; I stayed until 9:45 ish. While there I met other interns and me, tony, sean, malorie, katie, Beverly, and others went to Artomatic until 12:45 am. Artomatic is an exhibiton of over 1000 artists, with 12 floors of madness for 40 days & 40 nights. It was truly amazing--we did almost half of Artomatic--I bought a t-shirt for the memory.

Saturday: June 14th I went to eastern market to get some fresh produce and then in the afternoon went back to Artomatic and finished what I could.

Sunday: June 15th I relaxed--end of story...I slept late and read all day.

Monday: June 16th Don had a meeting so Casey and I couldn't shoot Monk seal skulls so Casey helped Joe shoot snails and I edited photos and worked on the Black & white challenge of the glass positive lantern negative that James DiLoreto gave Joe and I. I figured it out via 2 missing steps--thanks RIT!

Tuesday: June 17th I shot Monk seal skulls with Casey Ross, Ken's other intern out at the Museum Support Center where we got to have a tour of the American Indian Museum storage center and other studio that had accordian lights...freakin' awesome!! We got stuck in the mega storm that blew down two tents on the National Mall that ended up injuring several children from Florida. Don and I got soaked walking across the Mall on the way back to the museum. Barb and Don gave me a ride home so i didn't get drenched because i forgot my umbrella...oops. Then I went to Union Station to get a book to read.

Wednesday: June 18th We finished shooting Monk seal skulls out at MSC then took the shuttle back to Natural History Museum to begin editing

Thursday: June 19th I finishied editing the monk seal skulls and went with Don, Jim, and Joe to the raven canoe launch into the Potomac River via an Anchorage Alaskan tribe; the ritual and ceremony was awesome and I got to be an assistant/runner for Joe, Jane, and Don. Afterwards Don and I went to lunch and then Joe and Jim joined us as well as Court and Leana. At 2:45 pm I met Barbara to go on the Behind the Scenes Folklife festival tour...kinda a snooze fest, but interesting none the less. After the tour ended I went home and got ready for the greek dancing and dinner in Alexandria, Va. It was so amazing we took the metro to Alexandria, had wine, danced, broke plates then came home. Alix, Kate, Remy, Michael, and I all went to Georgetown for an after party until 3:30 am. :o)

Friday: June 20th Day off--relax and recovering from the madness, blogging, uploading pictures, making pita bread , charging batteries for tomorrow's zoo venture!!