Settled in Savannah
We’ve been in our new house in Savannah for exactly two weeks today, and I’ve been making appearances as an official employee of my museum for two weeks tomorrow! I think we’re settling in pretty well. I really like my job a lot. I still feel like I spend most of my day running around trying to find the time to get something done, but things should be calming down a lot now because my high school and middle school volunteers are going back to school and I’ll only have the high school volunteer in on Wednesdays after school beginning this week. Hopefully, I’ll have some time to get things sorted out and start feeling like I’m working and contributing to the museum more than usual.
The good news is that I feel pretty qualified to be working this job. So far, all of the many many many future tasks of the new curator that have been thrown at me seem manageable and like something I’m really capable of doing. But, it’s still a little overwhelming. There is so much to do that I can’t quite always figure out where to start. It seems pretty clear that the museum’s theory of collections for the last little while has been to tell people that we don’t have a curator and so the donor should wait until their was a curator. Sound advice, but now I’m flooded with donations. That hypothetical in grad school where “someone walks into a museum with a box” is my every single day. I’m hoping that slows down for a while until I get a collections management policy written. Gracious.
In other news, the dog I posted about in the last entry was kept at the vet’s office and adopted a few days before we moved! She’s living a good life out in Matador, Texas!