The Calm After the Storm
The day after the race was kinda laid back due to there not being much work to be done. All that has been done at NMLC for two weeks was preparing for the race, and now that it is over no one knew what to do. Due to Ashley having the day off the office was extremely quiet. Kate sent us to work in the hospital after scanning and doing paper work for last year’s Kemp Ridley releases. This did not take too long and soon we were in the hospital doing the morning chores.
Personally, I have gotten really good at scrubbing floors. Not going to lie, I kinda feel like Cinderella! Our morning chores consist of cleaning the kitchen, boxing fish, and doing whatever dishes are in the sink. After about two weeks of doing that every other day Marissa and I have created a pretty efficient way of getting the chores done fairly quickly. While one of us scrubs the floors, the other washes the dishes and cleans the counters and fridge. Then after the floors are scrubbed down they get rinsed and the water gets pulled to the drains. This system only takes about 45 minutes then we are off to the next task. After chores we were sent back to Kate in the office to do the box turtles. Since the Discovery Center is open now there were little kids around watching us clean the box turtles. It was really cool to have the kids around because they asked a lot of questions.
After the box turtles were finished we got asked to make eight copies each for two presentations for the new interns. The first was 21 slides long and Marissa and I disagreed on how to get eight copies. I figured you could put the entire this in the copier then sort through them, but Marissa thought that would take to long. We settled on breaking the presentation into 3 parts and making copies and putting the parts together. Well this did not work as we had planned because we ended up losing sheets and having to restart. Today was one of those days where the copier was not our friend. After finishing the first we started the second. Both had to be double sided, so we put the first half of the second presentation into the copier hit double sided. Unfortunately, something happened in the first half came out not double sided. Because we did not want to waste any more paper, we decided to tell Kate. She did not seem mad, but she was not happy. Monday was a long and stressful day for me. I do not like making mistakes and Marissa and I did, so I was a little frustrated.








