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my life is anything but dull
Nov. 11th, 2005 08:25 pmWell, that's not true, considering that by seven oclock tonight I'd gone grocery shopping, eaten dinner, taken a shower and put on pjs.
But work was interesting.
Gave my first tour, and there was this slightly crazy lady who wanted to come on another tour. I don't know what was up with her. She was nice, but a litte wacky. But the other people on her tour apparently thought I was the best thing since sliced bread, and were very impressed at me being a Museum Studies student. It was interesting.
Then I gave a tour that would have been much better if the two little boys on it had had a nice dose of benedryal, because they weren't very interested, but they were a touch disruptive. But one of them asked me how Santa came down the chimney because he thought the chimney was too small (which is weird, because the house has nice fireplaces, though some of them have been blocked off). Which meant I had to answer with "Santa is magic", because really, that explains everything about Santa. I mean, if the guy can get to every child who celebrates Christmas in one night, he can get down the chimney (or come in through the fantastic floor-to-ceiling windows). But it was incredibly adorable. Then it turned out that the other kid was Jewish, so that was just awesome. I hope I handled it alright- the parents didn't seem too eager to help me out with that random question. The other people on the tour asked if I was a teacher because of the way I dealt with the kids, which I took as a compliment.
And then we had a tour that included a Muslim couple, and the woman was not just veiled, but she had her whole face covered except her eyes. And they asked if we had a place they could pray, but generally we try to remain neutral, what with us being federal property and all, so we sent them off on the tour, because they would have missed it otherwise and it was the last one of the day. I mean, who cares if they pray, but we can't say "sorry, you can't watch the movie, people are using the auditorium to pray" to another visitor. The crazy lady was also a Muslim, which I only know because I heard her mention it at least three times. She refused to shake hands with a man because of it, which I thought was interesting. Her tour also had a priest on it, and he's leaving for Sierra Leone tomorrow for a few weeks. So it was a religiously diverse day. Weirdly, the priest asked me if the house was haunted, and I didn't think priests believed in ghosts besides the Holy Ghost.
And oh, I forgot to mention, the crazy (but great) coworker who used to work on the Mall stopped by her old office today and when she came back she brought us pedometers. I walked over 1,000 steps today (I took it on one tour, which was like 383, so 3 tours is over 1,000, plus the rest of my day). And tonight's episode of Firefly on SciFi was the pilot.
ETA: I forgot- I was sweeping off the porch, and the neighbors had this cute little boy, and apparently they'd been blowing leaves off the lawn, and they sent him over to use the leaf blower on the front porch. I'd already finished, but he was so cute and sweet. And it was also very nice of them to offer to use the blower on the porch for me.
But work was interesting.
Gave my first tour, and there was this slightly crazy lady who wanted to come on another tour. I don't know what was up with her. She was nice, but a litte wacky. But the other people on her tour apparently thought I was the best thing since sliced bread, and were very impressed at me being a Museum Studies student. It was interesting.
Then I gave a tour that would have been much better if the two little boys on it had had a nice dose of benedryal, because they weren't very interested, but they were a touch disruptive. But one of them asked me how Santa came down the chimney because he thought the chimney was too small (which is weird, because the house has nice fireplaces, though some of them have been blocked off). Which meant I had to answer with "Santa is magic", because really, that explains everything about Santa. I mean, if the guy can get to every child who celebrates Christmas in one night, he can get down the chimney (or come in through the fantastic floor-to-ceiling windows). But it was incredibly adorable. Then it turned out that the other kid was Jewish, so that was just awesome. I hope I handled it alright- the parents didn't seem too eager to help me out with that random question. The other people on the tour asked if I was a teacher because of the way I dealt with the kids, which I took as a compliment.
And then we had a tour that included a Muslim couple, and the woman was not just veiled, but she had her whole face covered except her eyes. And they asked if we had a place they could pray, but generally we try to remain neutral, what with us being federal property and all, so we sent them off on the tour, because they would have missed it otherwise and it was the last one of the day. I mean, who cares if they pray, but we can't say "sorry, you can't watch the movie, people are using the auditorium to pray" to another visitor. The crazy lady was also a Muslim, which I only know because I heard her mention it at least three times. She refused to shake hands with a man because of it, which I thought was interesting. Her tour also had a priest on it, and he's leaving for Sierra Leone tomorrow for a few weeks. So it was a religiously diverse day. Weirdly, the priest asked me if the house was haunted, and I didn't think priests believed in ghosts besides the Holy Ghost.
And oh, I forgot to mention, the crazy (but great) coworker who used to work on the Mall stopped by her old office today and when she came back she brought us pedometers. I walked over 1,000 steps today (I took it on one tour, which was like 383, so 3 tours is over 1,000, plus the rest of my day). And tonight's episode of Firefly on SciFi was the pilot.
ETA: I forgot- I was sweeping off the porch, and the neighbors had this cute little boy, and apparently they'd been blowing leaves off the lawn, and they sent him over to use the leaf blower on the front porch. I'd already finished, but he was so cute and sweet. And it was also very nice of them to offer to use the blower on the porch for me.
