Monday, July 8, 2019
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It was a productive three days of work this past week. I got my list of important black hole related events complete and I have most of the blurbs done. I’ve also collected all the images I think I will need for the exhibit cases here on the third floor. While looking through images of stars and galaxies I also happened upon the cutest picture I’ve seen in a while.
https://images.nasa.gov/details-201311070054HQ.html
We love baby scientists.
I felt pretty accomplished by the end of Wednesday. For such a short week I got all my to-do done! Now on Monday, I’ll get to go shopping for the art supplies I need to make my exhibit cases. I’m really excited to get to do arts and crafts! I’m living the life people. By day I research black holes and soon will be doing arts and crafts and by night I spend time in my apartment with a woman who has started to call herself Paddington Bear (see Sammi’s week 6 blog).
Outside of work, I was really excited for this week because my friends came to visit! I have been blessed to have a wonderful gaggle of hometown friends who are also awesome STEM ladies. I could make this whole blog post about how amazing they are but alas I should be talking about the fun things we did.
So my friends, Hannah and Raiddy, got to DC on the 4th and they came along to see fireworks on the capitol steps. The steps tend to get very crowded, so we planned to picnic and socialize from 3ish to 8 pm when the concert started. Unfortunately, the weather did not feel like compiling with this plan, and by 5 we were wet and cold and headed back to Shenkman hall. We dried off, ate our Wawa hoagies, and waited out the lighting.
My friends and I ended up staying in the rest of the night. We found a good viewing spot up on the 10th floor to watch the flyover and fireworks. My friend Hannah is in the Air Force ROTC program at her college, so watching the flyover was a must as was going to the Air and Space Museum the next day. On the 5th my sister also came to visit, so the four of us made the long sweaty trek to the Air and Space Museum. In the evening Hannah and Raiddy got on their bus home to Philadelphia and I took Annie out for a belated birthday dinner. We went to a restaurant called The Unconventional Diner. Highly recommend! After dinner, we went back so I could introduce Annie to the rest of the interns. It was, as usual, a very fun evening full of laughter and jokes. The next morning Annie and I had a few extra hours to explore DC before she got on a bus back to Philly. We went to a small art museum close to Foggy Bottom called the Art Museum of the Americas, a very cute little museum, highly recommend you check it out.
After all the commotion of the week, I ended up getting Sammi’s cold and spent most of Sunday in bed drinking tea. Hoping for a relaxing week of work and fun before I head back to Happy Valley for State College’s annual Arts Fest next weekend. While I love my friends here and all the fun we have I’m missing Penn State and my buds.
Catherine Ryan