002 - Artifacts!

Today went exceptionally well! This morning, my breakdown only lasted about 15 minutes or so, after my appearance on the local television news station. I spent about 15 minutes in the car wondering how many of my friends saw me, and whether or not it looked like I was holding my crotch the whole time (I hate standing with my hands clasped in front of me, for this very reason.)

I happened to be at the TV station to promote an upcoming cookoff event which has been really stressing me out. As the day progressed, however, we had several people sign up for it, based on my TV appearance! Those few signups put me over my expected goal, and we're still 4 days away from it, which really got me jazzed. I work very hard at what I do, and sometimes I surpass my expectations for success, but SOMETIMES I just work very hard not to fail. For certain events, I am ok with this.

But you don't care about that. You want to hear about the artifacts, since this is the blog post entitled "Artifacts." There is a certain individual in my town who has a significant collection of Native American artifacts and armaments (spear points, arrowheads, dart points, etc), and my collections committee and I have been attempting to think of a way to get those from him on loan for an upcoming exhibit.

I attended an Archaeological Society meeting at his house, in which I threw all caution to the wind and asked him very bluntly if we could borrow them for an upcoming artifact show. He seemed a little hesitant, but he eventually told me that he would be willing to part with several of the cases for the duration of the exhibit. I am very pumped about this, because the man is VERY interesting to talk to, and I would very much like for him to be proud of his town's museum (and director!)

This "loan" for the exhibit may potentially turn into a "donation" if we can convince him that we will take good care of it. I really see an opportunity here to make our museum into a research haven for native American artifacts.

I then passed out a flyer at this Archaeology meeting with the schedule for the rest of the year, hoping that people would take note of the native American artifact exhibit, but many of them were more excited about the "Ghost Hunting in SWLA" exhibit in the months immediately following the artifact show. I really hope that exhibit pans out, because I see it opening new doors for us down here.

Well, it's been a productive day, full of hairgel (for the tv appearance) and handshakes, and now it's about time for bed. Another full day tomorrow, with museum all day, followed by church with kids!