I worked an extra day at the museum today (I think I forgot to put that on my "things-that-are-stressing-me-out" list the other day) which was probably a mistake. Now I'm all tired and stuff, and trying to decide how to spend the rest of my evening. I really need to do some more reading for my final essay for cataloging (PS if anyone has any deep insights or ideas about FRBR that they want to share, I am all ears). Also I just want to sleep.

See, right now, the area where I work at the museum is not air conditioned. Some huge driveshaft thing has broken and has to be ordered from an artisanal driveshaft workshop on Mars or something, and so it will be a while (ie around a month) before the AC is up and running again. This means that today it was 86°F in the office and maybe 82 in the exhibit area. Ugh. I had one outfit picked out to wear this morning but I decided to change it to something less sweat-stain-revealing when I remembered about the AC. That's not right; I shouldn't have to plan my work outfits around my pits.

Also, today was the day of the INSANELY HUGE CAMP GROUPS OMG. There were maybe five or six groups of several hundred kids each. The kids were mostly pretty good once you got their attention, but when 25 elementary school kids with two teenage chaperones come into your exhibit area, it can take a while to get their intention. They were interesting groups, though; there were two Chinese groups (or at least Asian kids wearing t-shirts with something written on them in Chinese, with chaperones mostly speaking Chinese although the kids mostly were speaking English), one group with a mostly Spanish-speaking American kids, what appeared to be a Japanese exchange program, and a couple of other multiracial-polyglot groups of kids. Also lots of foreign families; I had at least two families each of French, German, and Australians, plus various other nationalities. Mostly, though, it was just crazy-busy. Fun, but crazy.

Tomorrow is the kid monkeys' first birthday, yay! Send them a card or something, won't you?

I finally read The Handmaid's Tale which, seriously, how did I get to the ripe old age of 27 without having read this book? And I call myself a feminist and a book person! Anyhow, it was awesome, and it scared the shit out of me, and all you Canadians have to promise me that I can come crash with you when they freeze my bank account, 'kay? I loved the Cambridge setting, too, because it gradually became more obvious to me as the book went on, and it's so nice to see familiar places in books, even dystopian books. Given the current state of affairs, though, I suspect that when the theocracy comes to power they'll just nuke Massachusetts as irredeemably evil.

I also went in the museum today to see the baby monkey, which is freaking adorable. The mother is carrying it around a lot, which didn't happen last time (the dad was definitely the primary caretaker for the ones born last summer) and the son seems to be paying a lot of attention to the mom and baby, while the daughter seems less interested. Now the mom and daughter have to get little monkey Norplants again, because there were only supposed to be two pregnancies, according to the species survival plan people, so no more baby monkeys, at least not for the next year or two.

I'm sorry, I need to bitch about the weather some more; the expected high for tomorrow is 64°F. That's 18°C. In July. In Boston. That's the average low temp for July in Boston. Geez. But at least I have the option of dressing appropriately for tomorrow, whereas I am going to freeze but good on the way home tonight, even with my newly-purchased, overpriced sweatpants. I'm pretty cold already. Gah. Stupid, terrible weather.

Still: monkeys!

Oh, also, Paul Temple is back on BBC7, yay.

And monkeys!

The monkeys had another baby Sunday night! Eee! I hope it doesn't die!

Oh. This probably means that the birthday party we were planning for the monkeys who were born last summer is off, since we'll probably be closing up the exhibit for the next few weeks. Stupid monkeys! Why couldn't you wait until August?

But eeee! Baby monkey!