July 13

A quiet day – in fact, one of my coworkers even told me I was so quiet today. As if I am ever loud… Anyway, I processed some CDs, listened to some CDs (Smashing Pumpkins, The Cribs, Miles to Dayton and some Sixties songs compilation), and did some record label database-making in the afternoon. Same old. At lunch, I finished touring the National Museum of the American Indian, which I ran out of time perusing on Sunday afternoon. Luckily, it’s the museum that is closest to my work and therefore only a 10-15 minute walk.

My trainer, Tran, is on vacation until the 25th so I was given someone new (Gina) to look over my work. I have to say that I’m a little nervous about it because it’s pretty common knowledge around the office that Tran doesn’t know what she is doing and therefore, I probably don’t know what I’m doing either. Hopefully Gina will go easy on me. She seems nice, at least.

After work, I went to the AFI Silver theater in Silver Spring, MD, which boasts some sort of state-of-the-art technologies for film-viewing. Basically, I think it specializes in showing older titles on the big screen. They have a George Lucas series going on where all his movies are being shown. The series I went to is “Science in the Cinema,” in association with the National Institute of Health. They show movies with medical-related themes for free and then follow them with discussion about the affliction shown in the movie. I saw The Notebook and heard discussion about Alzheimer’s disease. It was pretty neat – and did I mention free? The pairing of those two words - movie and free - is one of the most wonderful things in the world! Anyway, I think I might go back. They are showing Something the Lord Made in a couple weeks and I’d really like to see that. A similar free movie series is taking place at the National Building Museum with movies about architecture being featured. I might partake in that also, although it’s not in a nice movie theater but in the museum’s great hall. It also is on Wednesdays.