Me and My Cellar Dwellers

I am surrounded by a Viking helmet wearing, poutine junkie, a brain surgeon who is going to marry a sultan and a punk loving photographer who won’t take me to Cuba.  What a World!

By my initial description you may be thinking that I’m at a costume party or possibly an insane asylum, but no, oh no….I’m at work.  That’s right, my daily routines are surrounded by some very interesting people.  You see, each summer my co-workers and I are lucky enough to recruit a group of summer students to help us with our massive work load.  We always get excited for this time of year.  A bunch of new faces to liven up the place and relieve some of our stress. 

Each year I try really hard not to get attached to the summer staff, however, it seems to get harder and harder for me.  At first I thought that I just really like having new people around, and then I thought that it was my superior skill of choosing the perfect sidekicks, but I have decided that the bottom line is that there is a wonderful group of people coming up through the ranks.

It seems so often that we are hearing about “young people now-a-days”.  And although I’m not yet menopausal, I had often agreed that the morals and values of young’uns was going down the tubes.  Yet just when society is blaming this generation for so many of the problems in the world, I get the opportunity to meet and work with some of the most intelligent and potential filled people it makes me want to vomit…either that or hire them on full time….(If Only….).

So even though one day they will pull up in their BMW’s with their family on their day off from their million dollar a year careers to visit the museum in which I still work in a basement surrounded by smurfs, I’ll still be proud to say I’m the one that taught them everything they know!!!