July 2011
1 post
Week 3: June 27 - July 1, 2011
Monday, June 27 (10:00 - 5:30)
labeled a diving helmet with its catalog number while it was still in the “Commercial Diving” exhibit
attended my first staff meeting from 10:30-12:30; i appreciated being included in the meeting, as I want to be on the same page as everyone else during my time here; we had a “rundown” printed out and each staff member shared important...
June 2011
18 posts
Week 2: June 20-24, 2011
I have just received word that weekly blog entries are a “go,” and it couldn’t be more welcome news. I’ve found it maddening to try and update this thing every day and the inundation of entries is surely a turn-off to anyone trying to follow this blog. I’m too invested in Tumblr to change now, but I regret not going with a different service. Anyways, once a week I will do one entry with all daily...
“Hello, we are the Endangered Speyches.”
– The Endangered Species, Full Moon Party Band
“Dude, you have really big hair.”
– Male stranger at the O.V.
“You have really really really nice hair.”
– Female stranger at the Green Turtle Inn
Day 1: June 13, 2011
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
As expected, my first day was a bit of a whirlwind. It began with the ceremonial “showing of the cubicle,” of which there are only two. My appreciation for the temporary ownership of half the cubicles in the office cannot be understated. Shortly afterward, I was given a personal tour of the exhibit galleries by Dr. Sally Bauer, one of the museum’s founders...
Great Expectations
Hi everyone!
I’m Austin and this is my 2011 summer internship blog. I am a Museum Studies graduate student at the University of Florida and am interning at the History of Diving Museum in Islamorada, Florida from June 13th to August 12th. As a disclaimer for the potentially boring subject matter of my blog (and to let you know that I’m not completely self-involved), a weekly journal is required in...