Day Five

Day Five! The Doc came back from her workshop so she was in the lab today.  She helped me with my questions, because X wasn't there today.  I did the same thing today as I did during days one through four.  The Doc did show me the difference between the head types though, which made my life easier.  I did take another trip on the struggle bus, but it wasn't as bad as yesterday.  Nothing else really happened worth mentioning.  Except for lunch.  I went down to the cafe and ordered a bison burger (side note, the burger was super tasty, I love bison meat), the cashier commented on my shirt.  You see, I decided to casual Friday, so I wore my "you obviously like owls" shirt.  The shirt is designed by Jeph Jacques, author of Questionable Content, a webcomic that is pretty awesome.  She knew the shirt was from QC, asked if I read it, and I said yes  It was nice that someone recognized the shirt, she is the only person beside my friend who bought it for me has ever commented on it.  I also watched The Doc give a talk about the importance of flies.  I might have mentioned this before but the NRC has a dual use statue, on the outside of the building it looks like a globe, but on the inside it is hollow and has a stage and projectors and what not so scientists can give talks.  I really like how the museum gives talks to teach the public about science.  I may give my doing a talk at the end of the summer, but I don't know yet.  So, my first week as an intern is over.  I like what I'm doing and everyone is nice.  I'm excited to continue, and hopefully I can do more than just identify species (ex. fieldwork).  Tomorrow I'm going to try to go to the museum and take pictures so I can write about it in more detail here.