Exhibits, Exhibits, Exhibits

Hello,
So on Friday we went over to one of the other intern's houses because his landlord was gone. So I made pina coladas and we played scrabble and watched t.v. Very nice.

On Saturday we headed out early (the people I'm renting from were having a brunch so I needed to leave by 9 which was super early for a Saturday in my opinion). First we went to Oscar Zero which served as a launch alert control center. Basically the site controlled the launching of Minuteman missiles which are intercontinental ballistics which can reach all the way over to the Soviet Union. There were no missiles at the site, but the missiles used to be spread out over an area the size of New Jersey. Now, as part of a treaty to reduce nuclear arms, there are no more missiles in North Dakota, but there still are missile sites in the US. We got a free tour for being interns, which was handy. Before we left, we used the restrooms which we had seen earlier on our tour.

Then we headed up to Fort Totten near Devil's Lake. We also got in free there- it can be handy being an intern. The fort was only a frontier fort for about 20 years, because as the person there said, the frontier is only the frontier for so long. After that it became a boarding school for Native American children. The exhibits switched back willy nilly between the two and it was confusing, so it's a good thing they'll be updating the exhibits soon.

We drove the long way back. Driving along the lake, we were practically at water level. We stopped for dinner at a cute place in a town called Harvey- it was like cheap gourmet and they had sweet potato fries!- very good. We drove through a bunch more lakes on the way back- the lakes seemed very long and I don't think I know how to understand lakes that weren't formed by glaciers- they confuse me. The water was very still so the reflections were beautiful. We got back late and I slept in on Sunday.

We didn't get any internet on Sunday, so I joined up with the Bismarck library and luckily had a letter from a friend on hand to prove my mailing address. I stocked up on dvds for the evening's entertainment and am now on my fourth episode of Ballykissangel.

Today at work was one of the interns last days, which was sad. She works in the Museum Division and so she conspired with the other interns to put labels on everything with all sorts of exhibit label no-no's. Jargon-y sentences filled with obfuscatory language and run-on sentences filled their labels. She mis-labeled all the shelves, too. And they all had labels too such as "Supervisor, mean" (Don't worry the supervisor works hard on her reputation and even has a whip in her desk,which really isn't that large) and "Intern, the." It was enjoyable.

Now I suppose I should get back to work and be done with break since it is not my last day.