You may touch the dust but please don't write in it

[teenybuffalo]

Very pleasant morning spent learning cleaning techniques at the museum.  The place is badly in need of a thorough summer-cleaning, with fall-, winter-, and spring-cleanings to follow just to make up for months of neglect, but they're willing to pay me for four or five hours of overtime curatorial dusting and polishing a month, and I'll do what I

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[teenybuffalo]

Yes! You capture my mood, there. The house is a temple to peace and silence; then the tourists show up outside and come marching down the front walk with big grins on their faces, and I have to spoil it all by letting them in.

(NB: I usually enjoy the tours once we've begun. This is just everyday tour-guide rage.)