Scientific Assistant, Division of Paleontology
The Scientific Assistant will assist with day to day curation and management activities in the four Paleontology collections, including specimen rehousing, cataloging, entering data into collections-related databases, specimen loans, visitor support, planning and executing collection moves, and dealing ( Read more... )

I think my New Year's Resolution is going to be "Get off my ass and do something". Watch it not happen, though. I am just so damn apathetic all the time now. I wish the state would hurry up and get back to me on whether or not I'm going to get an interview for their crummy museum aid position. Job plzkthnx ( Read more... )

Stephanie, eclecticmuse (my sister) is doing fine, apart from being deliriously bored. The baby was persuaded to put a hold on his debut performance, and she's been staying at the hospital to 1. wait for forty-eight hours to pass after being taken off magnesium sulfide and 2. make sure Baby Jackson has been well and truly persuaded to stay put. She'll most ( Read more... )

Bored. Want a Sprite but haven't convinced myself to haul myself out of my chair and make the absurdly short trip to the fridge yet.

I'm not writing the Titanic murder mystery game anymore. The niece-in-law and company decided to just yoink one off the internet. I'm not offended; it just means less work for me. :) (Oh, because I already have so ( Read more... )

Tonight's lone exciting occurrence at work was that, while eating dinner on my break, I actually managed to laugh/snort a piece of pickle up into my nasal cavity. That shit burned like a mofo. I ended up spending the next ten to fifteen minutes blowing my nose until the offending piece finally decided to exit. My coworker at the front register had ( Read more... )

So I'm thinking about quitting my job.

A Backlog Of Observations From Behind The Counter

-If you are going to get one of our individual tea boxes from the display stand and put it on my counter, and you want me to make a small hot tea with it, you need to tell me this before I ring up the box and not the tea. Because those things are on sale, and not just there for us to make you tea ( Read more... )

Been too fucking lazy and apathetic lately to update this thing--I want to, but it just doesn't happen. Rather, I log into Everquest and while away my hours getting nothing of value done, which just further fuels the apathy ( Read more... )

SWEET BUTTERED CHRIST WILL SOMEONE PLEASE POST A LISTING FOR A MUSEUM-TYPE JOB THAT I ACTUALLY QUALIFY FOR PLZKTHNX. I DON'T CARE WHAT SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC IT'S ON.

Blergh. I am so depressed over the lack of museum-type job prospects out in the great yonder that I just sent a serious inquiry about a position to a museum in Scotland. Scotland.

/headdesk

I bet Eric pops a vein when he reads this.

I think I'm going to go crawl into bed and cry.